David Bailey: > > I'm not sure you can say the output is superior -- the ability to work > in modes that Sibelius doesn't approve of is superior in Finale, but the > output to paper can look gorgeous with either program >
I believe this is what I said, too, in so many words. > So, apparently, if you organize your workflow > and the parts entry in a certain way, you will be able to accomplish > something similar to, but not quite equal to, a built-in ability to have > separate parts for multi-part staves. > Fair enough, and no doubt frequently useful. But to go the last mile, one must remember that different pages have different staff configurations. (Look at any Mahler Symphony score.) On one page Fls 1&2 share a staff. The next page they may split onto 2 staves. Even worse, on one page Hns 1,3,5,7 share a staff, but on another page there are four horn staves, arranged 1/2, 3/4, 5/7, 6/8. On another there are 2 staves, etc. TGTools is extremely powerful for automatically splitting these onto (in the case of 8 horns) 8 separate staves, provided you have deployed them carefully in the score. Also, don't underrate the importance of treating string divisi differently in scores than in parts. In scores, combining divisi on single staves is common and frequently practical. In parts, the much better practice is to break them out onto separate staves, unless the entire divisi passage is completely homophonic and straightforward (and even then only to facilitate a page turn). Separate staves are particularly important when each divisi part contains doublestops. Where you run into trouble is that the system breaks occur at different places, which means the part splits into multiple staves (and returns to single staves) on different bars than in the score. I use TGTools Smart Explode for this as well, although since it wasn't really designed for it, I have to use it in patches. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
