--- "Fiskum, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm glad they made you happy with this "feature." I > for one am not happy > with this decision. There is no reason they could > not have incorporated both > ways of approaching this issue. >
The more I thought about it the more I felt I could understand why they couldn't incorporate both methods easily. The possibility is certainly there, but I don't believe it's a simple matter of retaining a feature, but rather redeveloping it. That feature in 2006 was never like a typical document setting. Rather it acted like a one-time respace-staves action that took place during the extraction process. If you added staves to a part after it was extracted, those staves did not take on the spacing indicated in that dialog, but rather used the normal spacing value that always is applied when we add new staves to a score. This implementation would not have worked in the Linked Parts system. When you go and add a staff to a part in the Manage Parts dialog, that linked part is not recreated. All of the settings that were in it beforehand are retained, including the staff spacing of staves that remained in the part. It wouldn't be good if simply adding or removing a staff from a part blew away all of the changes we had made to that part (which is what recreating the part would mean). Trying to fit the command in during actual part extraction wouldn't work well either, since the whole thing was designed to create an extracted part that retained all changes that had been made to the linked part it came from. What we essentially need here is a completely new feature that allows the user to specify an actual document setting for the spacing of newly created/added staves, and ideally this feature would allow separate settings for the score and parts. Tyler __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
