On Aug 10, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Robert Patterson wrote:
The only time you can use Fin07's voicing rules is if the 2 parts always share the same staff: an unrealistic assumption for any but the most simplistic of scores.
First of all, thanks to Robert and all the others who responded to my original query.
I do have to cavil at the quoted sentence however. In 19th-c. music, such staff-sharing is commonplace in orchestral scores.
As for voicing, I suspect that Finale's voicing rules are at best no more intelligent than Tobias's, which do indeed, every once in a while, guess wrong. Finale's system, which erases half the data rather than placing it on an adjoining staff, makes it impossible to quickly compare the results (who gets the slur?) and doubles the cleanup time.
I suspect from all this that linked parts will indeed prove invaluable for chamber music, but not for orchestral.
Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
