On Oct 22, 2005, at 6:32 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Nothing needs to "bounces around" with Automatic Update Layout on, so long as you choose the appropriate Update Layout settings for your work (like, for instance, "Reflow only within systems"). The advantage to leaving Update Layout on is that you are never caught looking at measure widths in Page View that are not the "real" measure widths because you haven't updated the layout yet, and you never inadvertently print a part with an entire system missing. I still don't really see any disadvantage, unless you have a very slow computer.
It could be that I'm blurring Automatic Update Layout and Automatic Music Spacing in my mind. AMS definitely bounces stuff around.
Perhaps the only real advantage for me to leaving AUL off is that I'm used to it that way and I'm an old curmudgeon who likes things to stay the same -- which was my primary point in the other post, anyway. I've never suffered from any of the problems the rest of you describe -- checking and updating layout is so much a part of my process that I can't imagine accidentally printing a part with the measure spaced wrong, much less losing a system -- so I see no reason to start using AUL.
I agree that having Automatic Update Layout set by default makes perfect sense, but I'm going to gripe if someone deprives me of my option to turn it off. (And ditto for Automatic Music Spacing, Smart Word Extensions, etc.)
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