It's a long-standing bug that these items DON'T stay where you put them, especially if you place them to the left or right of the measure that they are attached to. Complain to MakeMusic, and complain loudly, as this is inexcusable.
But for now, just stop using them. I haven't used them in years. Create them as expressions, and set them to auto-position where you want them. Obviously, you want one to place at the end of a measure and another to place at the beginning, so make two of those if you need them. You can still get correct playback if you need it by entering the Repeat Tool item, but erasing the text so it doesn't print.
Only use the Repeat Tool for dotted double bars and boxes, though I know some peoples don't even use the repeat boxes in the Repeat Tool, as they are too kludgy.
Sorry for the bad news.
Christopher
PS, most of the Smart Shape issues (slurs, mostly, like wildly high arcs) have been sorted out in 2006, if you also make some changes to the default slur settings. I don't know of any bugs affecting non-slur Smart Shapes.
For articulations, there is some weird re-draw bug that makes the articulation not draw where you expect it until you hit cmd-D on Mac (control-D on PC, I think). Once it is correctly placed and re-drawn, it shouldn't move again. I notice it particularly on articulations that are set to stay outside the staff. If you select the articulation and hit Clear (on a Mac) it clears any manual placement you may have erroneously put on it thinking that it needed it. You can also do this for a whole page of music in one shot.
On Jun 9, 2006, at 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I have some horn parts on separate staffs, and I have painstakingly placed CODAS, Dal Segnos, and expressions on the staffs exactly where I want them, why does it put them in completely wrong places in the extracted parts?
After I have extracted the parts, I have to do a lengthy re-edit of them to put the repeat items and expressions BACK to where they should go. It usually puts those in the MIDDLE of the staff, which would never occur in a practical score.
It also does weird stuff with articulation marks and smart shapes, such that those also have to be re-edited. Sometimes the articulations are so far away from the original note, I can't figure out where it went to start with.
Is there a way to avoid that? You would think everything is RELATIVE to the staff. Obviously, you could have situations where the transposed NOTES might clash. But there are many cases where that does not occur, and it still does weird stuff.
Thanks; Bill S._______________________________________________
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