On Jul 3, 2006, at 4:24 PM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
Someone mentioned a while back, that it's better to place a dynamic
mark (e.g."f") assigned to a specific note versus in the measure.
But I'm curious what's the advantages or disadvantages of doing it
this way?
Is it because no matter what happens to the document when you
resize it in layout mode, the dynamic mark is in the same exact spot?
It's because you may want to have the mark in different places for
different instruments, according to register (ledger lines) or if the
instrument starts playing a note later or earlier. It's too hard to
allow individual positioning of measure-attached expressions, because
you have to adjust each and every one when you extract parts. At
least the note-attached ones adjust themselves for transposition, and
keep their positional relationship, so you don't have as much nudging
to do between parts and score.
Also, if you ever copy between documents you have to take staff lists
into account, which is another pain.
For single instruments, the difference might be not as decisive. For
multiple instruments, note-attached dynamics are far superior, IMO.
Christopher
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