Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Michael Cook schrieb:
I'm going to put that, with a bit more detail, into a feature request:
my two top priority feature requests are this and some form of house
styles. Maybe some people on the list would like to join me?
I believe that house styles should be part of the template system. It
would need some thinking about, but templates and house styles should be
aware of eachother.
Johannes
Yes, they would definitely need to be aware of each other, so we could
change house styles once we begin on a new file based on an existing
template.
I can envisage something like this:
Template definitions would include the number of staves and the
instruments defined for each staff, any grouping of staves, libraries of
expressions, articulations, etc. all of which would include in initial
house style.
House style definitions would include:
Specific fonts for the various libraries as well as for notation and
text blocks, spacing between staves and between systems, music spacing
algorithms, bracket shapes and spacing, bar-line usage, page definitions
(including margins, page-text block definitions and placement for items
such as title, composer(s), copyright notice, instrument) and other
items I'm sure I've forgotten to include.
So you could choose Brass Quintet Template and Presser House Style and
get the appearance you wish with the score layout you want and then
start your note entry.
Page layout issues would be pretty much defined somewhere in the house
styles so very little additional messing around would be required, and
the house style would also include the same sort of information for part
extraction (or something like changing Special Part Extraction into a
version of Dynamic Parts).
It could go a long way to making engraving life a lot easier and
quicker, and a carefully designed set of house styles included in the
release package (along with a clearly described and documented House
Style Editor section for us to make our own House Styles) would go a
long ways to making Finale's out-of-box printed appearance look a whole
lot better and be easier to manage for beginners.
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David H. Bailey
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