Trent Johnston wrote:
One thing I did notice in the video was that all the layout issues were
sorted out before the engraving started. He was engraving page 40 and he
knew the bars of music were going to appear on that page. It's funny that
the first piece of advice that most notation program manuals give is to type
all the music in and then work out the page layout.
Your comment seems to suggest that the engraver is working only with the
contents of page 40, and spacing the music without prior knowledge of
what is on pages 1-39, and 41 to ....
But I would submit that the engraver is working from a paradigm that is
exactly equivalent to "type in all the music, and work out the page
layout." The difference in the case of the engraver, is that all of the
music is "typed in" on the fair copy and worked out, and he simply
reproduces what is on a page of the fair copy. Your som
I've started using Finale and found that while there's lots of bells and
whistles to tweak I find it frustrating to know when to stop or even more
reset the score back to a default layout if I've gone to far in the wrong
direction.
It seems to me that this issue can be quite nicely solved by
consideration of your workflow. Before I start to "tweak" a score, I
save it, and tweak the new copy. I save every time I leave the computer
(for example, to get a beverage), and start with a new copy every time I
return. I also have my undo set to an unlimited number of steps, and to
undo past save. If I decide I've gone too far, and I don't want to
bother with using the undo, I simply pull up the earlier copy, and start
again.
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