> > > > OK: I've got two oboe parts on a single staff, and I want to make two > > parts for the players. Under previous versions of Finale I would > > extract the 2-oboe staff; split it into two staves using TGTools/Smart > > Extraction of Parts; clean up all the inevitable errors, > > expression/articulation/smart-shape positioning issues, etc.; then > > reextract the two staves into separate parts. How would I do this under > > Finale 2K7? > > > > 1. Make a copy of the score. > 2. If necessary, add staves to the copy so that you have exactly > the same number of staves as parts. > 3. Use TGTools/Smart Extraction to explode the music so that all > the parts look correct on a staff by staff basis. > 4. Clean up as needed. I usually repeat steps 2 & 3 in small > chunks rather than attempting to run it all at once. Ymmv. > 5. Add cues as needed. > 6. Go into Manage Parts and generate all the parts. Until you've > used Fin07, this will not make sense, so take my word for it. > 7. Page layout each part as needed. (They are all in the same doc.) > > Or, you can continue to work as you do now. Unfortunately, there > are a few features of Extract Parts that do not work as well as > before, but they slip my mind at the moment. > > In theory, you might be able to work with the original of your > score without making a copy. In practice, steps 2-5 will probably > trash your score view, hence my recommendation to have a separate > copy for the parts.
Hmm, doesn't producing parts from a copy of the score negate the main potential advantage of linked parts, namely that changes made after parts are produced only have to be made in one place, not two (or even three)? My current method (Fin 2004) is to extract parts from a copy of the score, and I have a hard time imagining adding cues to parts without this intermediate step, even with the linked parts feature. From Robert's description, it sounds like I would still need to do this in Fin 2007, so it sounds like the only advantage of linked parts is that they're all in one big file. Come to think of it, that doesn't necessarily sound like an advantage. Am I missing something? Lee Actor Composer-in-Residence and Assistant Conductor, Palo Alto Philharmonic http://www.leeactor.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
