Dear Kurt,
On the imploding issue. Whenever I do this operation, I always clear
note expressions, articulations, and smart shapes (using mass edit)
from the lower parts and implode them into the highest selected
part. This avoids the problem of having duplicates in the imploded
result. (Articulations and expressions are also duplicated if you
don't remove them first, though you might not notice if they are
superimposed on one another.) I never thought about how this might
be done better automatically by Finale. It only takes a moment or two.
I have never had the extra last page problem.
I have never used "Space Systems Evenly" since the results seem
unpredictable. I prefer to zero all the system margins and place a
value in the "Space Between Staves" box. If you set that as you want
it on system 2 (system 1 often has more space above it) and select
apply to system 2 thru - and leave the last entry box blank (or enter
a zero), all subsequent systems will be identically spaced. I
usually enter a value that I have reason to think will be visually
attractive for the piece in general, and make adjustments on those
pages and systems that require it. I have always thought that one of
the strengths of computer notation was the fact that inter-staff
spacing could be changed according to the needs of legibility -
(leaving extra space for ledger lines, expressions, etc.).
Hope this helps.
Chuck
On Nov 30, 2005, at 2:48 PM, Kurt Gnos wrote:
Hi,
I like Finale, and I like Finale 2006. Besides the eternal bug of
Non-EPS, there are three bugs I come by very often.
1.) When I extract parts, there is always an additional empty page
after the last page of the parts. Only if I update I won't print a
lot of empty pages. What use? Why? Why still?
2.) When I implode music, say, to do a piano accompaniment from a
funk horns section, and there are slurs, I get multiple slurs that
I have to get rid of manually.
a) Should not the program be intelligent enough to check if the
rhythms and slurs are the same and to its task?
b) Is there a fast way to erase, say, 2 of 3 slurs in the whole
piece of music, or some plugin like "check slurs" or similar? Or a
quick workaround?
3.) Since ever. Why won't the spacing between systems change after
page 1 even if I did not do anything? Why do I always have to do
one of my dozen workarounds to get systems evenly spaced not on one
page, but throughout the piece, normally so I won't need more pages
than necessary? Why will there be a system on page 2 that has a
much bigger space than all of the others?
Since these are things I meet almost every day, I ask you for
opinions, workarounds, and maybe they won't be there in Finale 2007?
Still, miss EPS more than everything
cheers
Kurt
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