On 28 Feb 2006 at 4:06, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > While I appreciate your suggestion, > > > Options | Document Options | Layers. For your designated playback > > layer, check 'Hide layer when inactive' and 'Playback', and uncheck > > 'Affects music spacing.' > > this does not work in 2k, the version my client is using. I thought I > remembered a way to do it in 2k, but I've lost the file, and I'm > beginning to think that maybe I was mistaken. As I mentioned, my > friend generally follows the maxim, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", > and this may finally be what persuades him that, if 2k is not broke, > it's not up to the task any more, either, and it's time to upgrade. > Remembering how much handholding I did with 2k, I'm not sure this is > an entirely good thing.
In earlier versions of Finale, you had one choice for blank notation, I believe, and that was layer 1 only. So, you'd put your sounding notes in layer 1 and your printing notes in another layer. The display layer would have to have playback turned off by one method or another. Once staff styles were introduced, this stopped working properly, as somewhere between Finale 97 and Finale 2003, the hidden notes started being accounted for in music spacing even when you'd turned that off. One solution is to devote a layer entirely to playback of ornaments and the like, and set it to be hidden at all times and that music spacing is unaffected by any notes there. This is how I do it now. I then use the frame dialog to turn off playback of the notes that are for printing only. What your friend needs is completely doable in earlier versions of Finale. I was doing it for years without staff styles at all. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
