In the Windows version, *ALL* of the techniques you mentioned mess up
the left margin.
Just to put this in some perspective, maybe I can describe the project
where it became completely maddening, in hopes that somebody from Finale
might gain a better appreciation for why attention to the user interface
is really important -- much more important that the latest cool sound.
A few years ago, I wrote an arrangement for 6 horns + Rhy. being a
Latin ensemble, this gave me 13 staves. The bandleader is now going
with 5 front instruments, 3 of which are different from the original 6.
He asked me to update the arrangement, and also render a rehearsal track
for the players to work with before coming to rehearsal. No problem.
Piece of cake with Finale 2006, right?
The first thing I did was to generate the new rhythm bed in BIAB and
render it to MIDI. I then opened that in Finale. With a touch of HP,
it sounds great. I then created a new score using the wizard, including
all the printed parts plus 4 more invisible staves that have the BIAB
bed. At that point, I thought I was 90% done. All I had to do was to
drag all the various bits from their scores into my new score.
This is not a complicated project, but still I had about 30 distinct
staves working, which is well beyond my capacity to memorize what is
where. I needed to see the staff names, but anytime I did almost
anything, the names kept disappearing. This project ended up taking 3
hours (and a lot of cussing) longer than it should have.
The little things matter. Maybe the Finale people could be oblivious to
the user interface when there wasn't any real competition, but if they
continue that attitude in today's world, it will put them out of business.
Darcy James Argue wrote:
Okay, I couldn't figure out what you were talking about at first, as
I couldn't duplicate the behavior you described. But now I've got it
-- it depends *how* you change the view percentage.
Try this:
1) In Scroll View drag to the right with the hand grabber. Enlarge
and reduce the music by clicking on the score with the Zoom Tool.
The left barline stays where you dragged it.
VERSUS...
2) In Scroll View drag to the right with the hand grabber. Enlarge
and reduce the menu with the View menu shortcuts (cmd-1, cmd-2, cmd-
+, etc.). The left barline is set to its default position.
That's how it works in MacFin -- don't know about the PC version.
I pretty much always zoom in and out by clicking with the Zoom Tool
(using the cmd-shift-click and cmd-shift-opt-click shortcut), so I
hadn't noticed that using the a different method causes different
behavior.
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