So far, the comments on this thread have glossed over one of the annoyances of combining movements into a single file: abbreviated staff names. For a large instrumentation it is *really* annoying.
To get full instrument names at the beginning of movements after the first, you have to override each instrument name with a staff style whose "abbreviated" staff name is actually the full staff name. For a large instrumentation this is a true pain in the patootie. Even so, I think combining is the way to go, but I recommend complaining to MM about the lack of a way to turn Full Names back on for a particular bar. I have a feeling that now might be a really good time to send this complaint, too. Another step I haven't noticed mentioned is the need to set "Hide Cautionary Keys and Clefs" in the last bar of each movement. This setting has a small glitch (at least as of Fin05) that if the extracted part ends on a multimeas rest, you have to set the bit on the first bar of the multimeas rest. When I reported this problem to MM, I was astounded to be told that this was how it ought to work. One reason I've quit reporting bugs to them. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
