Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Well, that might work in some cases, but in my case I would end up
getting newly created articulations and text expression from one file to
the next all the time, resulting in far too much extra work.
There was a time when I would have been nodding my head in
agreement as
I read Johannes' post. However, I have found what for me is
a highly
effective work-around. Before I create expressions,
articulations, or
in some cases, smart shapes, I open a new "document without
libraries"
(once called, IIRC, an "empty document") enter a note or
rest if needed,
and create the expression, articulation, or smart shape in
the newly
opened document. I then save the library, which is then
available to be
loaded into any other document.
Periodically I sort and collect these micro libraries (many
of which
contain only an item or two) into the larger libraries of
which they are
naturally a part: those pertaining to strings to go
Str_exp.lib; those
to organ music go to Org_exp. If I'm working on a larger
project with a
number of files, I generally don't do the collection before
I complete
the project. And if while working on item 9, I find the
need to create
a new expression, I'll generally create it as above, then as
part of the
creating process, as soon as the library is saved, open the
template,
and import the new library into the template.
As I review the initial post, though, I am struck by another
suggestion
(though not so hard as to be painful). If the pieces you
need to change
between item 9 and item 10 are full pages, why not just
change the page
numbers, by adding or subtracting the nessary offsets? Say
item 9
starts on page 18, and item 10 on page 21. So you rename
the item on
page 21 "9", and the item on page 18 "10". Then, starting
on pages 18,
19, and 20 add a page offset value of 3, and on page 21
(which I'll
assume for the sake of illustration is two pages long) add
an offset
value of -3 for pages 21 and 22, setting the offset back to
zero on page
23. When time comes to print the volume out, then use the
"print page
ranges option" to print pages 1-17,.21-22, 18-20, 23 to end.
Use the
comments block in the file info, perhaps as well as
non-printing
expressions to document what you did.
ns
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