> > If you tell me that I can split a part in the score into multiple > > staves in the score and still have the linking work, then I'll be > > impressed. > > It may be that the kind of work you do would make that really > valuable, but I've never had a single project where I'd have had any > need for that.
Apparently you've never done any work with full orchestra, or concert band, or any large ensemble where it is SOP for multiple wind parts to appear on a single staff in the score, but extracted into single parts. This fits the description of 95% of the work I do with Finale. I agree with Robert, it would be very impressive for a notation program to understand the relationship between multiple-parts-on-a-staff in the score and the individual extracted (for want of a better word) parts, and maintain the link between them for editing purposes, but until then I'll continue to take extra care that my full score is really, truly "finished" before extracting parts (and some of my orchestral scores are more than 100 pages). One other thing: whether the parts and the score are linked or not, I still have to add cues (the most time-consuming factor for me in doing parts), and lay out decent page turns (I've tried Finale's automated page turn plug-in, but I don't think it's adequate). Using TGTool's Smart Explosion of Multi-part Staves, the remaining cleanup I currently do on parts in Finale is relatively minor compared to those two other items, so having linked score/parts would only be a minor time savings for me, even if it did handle multi-part staves. I'm not saying I wouldn't prefer it, or that it wouldn't come in handy for those inevitable changes after everything is 100% "done", just that I don't see it as the 2nd coming that some apparently do. Lee Actor Composer-in-Residence and Assistant Conductor, Palo Alto Philharmonic http://www.leeactor.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
