Robt. Patterson:
- Start a new document, single staff, with 4/4 time signature. In
Staff
Attributes check 'Independent Key Signature'. Then with the Time
Signature
Tool try to change the time signature to 3/4. Nothing happens - it
won't
change.
That one is still there. But it is an absurd test. The minute you add
another staff, the problem goes away. If there is only one staff,
there is no need for an independent key sig. So it's a fake problem.
I must emphatically disagree. I wrote to the list about this problem
less than a week ago. Here are the circumstances: 19th-c. orchl. score.
Horns, trps, timp. get not key sigs., so Independent Elements/Key Sig.
is checked. This box remains checked in the extracted parts. (If it is
unchecked, the transposition of the part will change).
Now, in the score there is one measure of 2/4, within a 4/4 context,
that has no time sig. in the original MS, and so I have left the sig.
out of the engraved version. (The bar consists of a tutti quarter note
followed by a quarter rest w. a fermata over it--such out-of-meter
measures are occasionally found in music of this period.) When
extracting the parts I realized that I could not simply leave the
measure unlabeled, because in many of the parts that measure is
followed by a multimeasure rest, which the player would have no way of
knowing whether to count in 2 or in 4. So I put the meter change into
all the parts.
When I got to the horns, guess what? No meter change. Eventually I
discovered that if I went back into the Staff Attributes dialogue and
checked Time Signature under Independent Elements I would finally be
allowed to change the meter as desired.
It's a bug. It's not a fake issue. And apparently it still hasn't been
fixed.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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