2) A 7/8 bar entirely filled with 64th notes. Apply note positioning,
then select Measure Tool and click bottom handle. Beat chart frame
appears, but the actual beat-chart elements do not.
Anybody got an easy workaround for this? I've encountered this in an
orchestral score that has about twenty such mm. in a row, all of which
need to have their beat positions adjusted because the mm. are too wide
to fit on the page without squashing. I can't reduce the size of the
systems by more than a few percent, because I've been using
reduced-size notation to indicate editorial additions. Also, none of
the TGTools spacing plugins will work in any of the affected bars
(presumably because they can't access the invisible beatchart
elements).
The workaround I'm currently using is a total pain in the ass, viz:
1) Change meter to plain 7/8, which loses all the 3+2+2 beaming that
the slower instruments in each bar have.
2) Apply beat spacing. (If I do that without first simplifying the
meter, then the first beat in each bar will have three subunits and be
very awkward to subdivide).
3) Add additional beatchart elements by hand and move them around by
teensy amounts until the measure looks right.
4) Put back in the beams that step 1 removed.
This takes about forty minutes *per measure*! Help?
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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