FYI,
I often copy things from score to part - modified sections of a few
measures or entire parts, and I rarely encounter serious problems.
There are things that happen - sometimes things get copied twice -
hairpins or expressions, but not so often, and it's not a big
problem, if you are observant.
One typical situation: four trumpet parts might be identical except
for pitches. Extract and lay out Trumpet 1; save it again as Trumpet
2,3,4, making the necessary text block changes; copy the the Trumpet
2 staff from the score and paste into the part saved as Trumpet 2;
repeat for Trumpets 3 and 4.
This has proved to be a real time saver, and it has been quite reliable.
I know this has been discussed here before. I'm just describing it
again and wondering what kinds of problems you have encountered, David.
This seems OK to me, but a well constructed and controlled score/part
connection with selectable options would be even better for many of us.
Chuck
On Dec 15, 2005, at 11:39 AM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 15 Dec 2005 at 9:02, Ken Moore wrote:
In case there is anyone who hasn't thought of this already: a poor
relation of dynamic linking, but better than re-extracting in some
circumstances* is to make the corrections in the score and then,
part by part, copy a whole stave and paste it into the laid-out
part.
Given how unreliably copying is in Finale, I would *never* attempt
such a thing. Anyone who has gone through the process of assembling
multi-movement works in multiple files into a single file would know
what kinds of problems there are with copy operations. Copying
between documents is something I just won't do if there is any
reasonable alternative at all.
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