Here are some things that are not unlinkable. If you want any of them to
be different in the score than the parts, you are better off with a
separate parts score.
*) Special tools. (Beam angles, accidental positioning, stem length or
frozen direction, etc.)
*) Note Positioning tool. (Grace notes, graphical scores, beams over
barlines using my plugin.)
*) Page assignments of page titles. (Think movement titles.) You can
work around this one by creating new page titles in the parts, but it is
a major pain, especially if you are working on something like Pictures
at an Exhibition.
*) Basically, any workaround. Any "trick" or clever technique for
achieving a notation effect that is not a directly supported feature of
the program probably cannot be different in score and part.
Other factors that you can work with but require constant thought and
care are:
*) Cues, especially if the cue contains a clef change. In the string
quartet example, cello cues in the violin part will often be in a
different clef (e.g., bass) than that violin. It is easy to hide the cue
in score view but a bit trickier to hide the clef changes.
*) Hidden items. Especially at first, you will be pulling your hair out
trying to make sure that items are hidden where you want them hidden and
show where you want them to show. (I'm still at this stage, but I have
not made much use of the feature yet.) Worse, hidden items are still
visible on the screen, though grayed out, which can be particularly
problematic if many of their handles coincide at the same place, as
happens sometimes with page titles. (Think titles at the top of each
page that contain customized text for each part, beyond merely the name
of the part.)
Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 10:10 PM 8/10/2006, David W. Fenton wrote:
>On 10 Aug 2006 at 19:23, Robert Patterson wrote:
>
>> MM would like you to believe that you can keep you score and parts in
>> one file, and they have made great strides in that direction. For many
>> projects it probably is possible.
>
>Why would it not be completely possible for any scores lacking
>multiple parts on one line, say a string quartet?
Because not everything is linkable/unlinkable in all the ways you might
want. To take just one example, Dennis Collins said he likes to have his
measure numbers positioned differently in score and parts; you can't do
that with linked parts. I also find that the current handling of cue
notes is not great for single-file projects.
Aaron.
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