On Sep 19, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 19.09.2006 Chuck Israels wrote:
It is true that you will have to update the mm rests, but that
doesn't need the parts to be recreated.
Dear Johannes,
My respect for you and gratitude for your generous help - given to
many of us over years of participation on this list, and for the
way you have shared your meticulously worked out settings for ties
etc., makes me want to take the time to make sure that you
understand that this particular issue is not simply one of those
that arises from my overlooking something obvious. (There have
been a few of those!)
Chuck,
as I said, I am not entirely sure whether the staff style problem
can be avoided without recreating parts. However, as far as mm
rests go it is simply not necessary - and it would be a disaster if
it was.
All you need to do is select the whole part with the measure tool,
and update using "Create MM Rests".
This will not change any measure attributes, so if you have measure
attributes which will cause mm rests to be broken, you would have
to delete those first. However, recreating parts just to update the
mm rests is not a very good way to work imo, since any formatting
done in the parts up to this moment will also be lost.
I realize that in your particular case recreating parts is a good
way to do it, because you are working from pre-existing files as
templates.
The pre-existing file from which I'm working is the new Jazz Band
Template included in 2007, albeit extensively modified.
This, however, is also not a very desirable way to set up a score
in the first place, since a lot of junk collected in the source
file will survive, and be your baggage in the future.
Do you think this is true for new files created from this template?
Then it would be impractical to work from templates, and that would
be a drag.
Problems like breaking mm rests are the direct result of this, and
not immediately connected to linked parts as such. The same would
happen if you extracted the parts the old way.
It is true that extracting parts produces the same results in 2007,
but I believe that this is entirely new behavior in 2007, though not
exclusive to linked parts (though probably related to the changes in
the code required by the new system). I could be wrong, but my
communication with MM (if I am understanding it correctly) indicates
that this is so. Of course, I don't disagree that the missing MM
rests can be gotten back by simply updating them, but that does not
solve the problem with staff styles or, as Lon points out, the
occasional missing chord suffix. I believe that something is going
on here beyond what you are seeing, Johannes, and that may be a
result of our using different notation tools in Finale. Anyway, I am
less lonely since Lon has weighed in.
Chuck
Johannes
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