Many thanks to Brad and Javier for their advice on this. I thought
FinaleScript (wh. I have never previously used) might be of use.
A couple of questions though:
1) The first step in upgrading the multimeasure rest symbol is to
import the Measure Rest library, and that doesn't seem to be covered in
the script. After that is done, updating the Multimeasure Rests Options
involves selecting the new symbol, which will have been added to the
Shape Selection palette as the last item there. The problem, though, is
that there is no guarantee that any two given files (much less 24 of
them) will have the same number of shapes in this palette, so the
number that must be entered in the Multimeasure Rests Options dialog
will not necessarily be the same in all files. Comment?
2) After that is taken care of, there is another pair of steps to take,
for the new shape will not actually replace the old multimeasure rests
in the score until you select all these rests (cmd-A will do), break
them, and recreate them. Perhaps an additional script is necessary?
One final problem, though I don't think it will be an issue for this
particular project, is that when you do these last two steps, you lose
any editing of individual mm-rests that had been done (width of
"measure", adjusted start- or end-point, etc.), and have to redo it
all. Any thought on avoiding this?
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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