Chuck,
I haven't found a way around your problem with the page numbers. Not
until they give us special options for text blocks will we see a way
around it -- when we create them we should be confronted with a choice:
This Part Only, All Parts Only, Score Only, All Parts AND Score.
I haven't run into the problems you mention with the multimeasure rests,
but I did find in my first project complete with linked parts that it
was simply easier to extract the parts for final printing, but then one
of the parts was 2 flutes on a single staff, which we always knew would
be a problem.
I did find something extremely curious but I didn't have time to
investigate further -- when trying to enter corrections, I couldn't get
into Speedy Entry while editing a part. Which was a royal pain in the
butt because I had a list of corrections which said "Flute 1, measure
15, change Db to Dnatural." It would have been so much easier to do
that from the part and have the edit show up in the score. I may have
been doing something, but it makes no sense to have linked parts if I
can't edit the actual music in the parts and have it appear in the score.
Oh well, still tons to be learned!
David H. Bailey
Chuck Israels wrote:
Hi all,
First time printing Linked Parts.
Is there a better way to handle the page numbering discrepancy than the
one I am now using - which is: The score has added "blank" pages (for
the cover), and the page numbers are offset (by -2) in order to
compensate for the blank pages and correspond correctly to the score.
So far so good, but with linked parts, the second page of the part
inherits the page offset, so it is numbered "0". So I hide the existing
page number (the one linked to the score), and add a correct one in
another text block - in each individual part view. Royal PITA.
Is there something I'm missing here in working method that would make
this less clumsy? Maybe I could add another page number set in the
score, one that would correspond to the parts, hide it in the score, and
then click it to show in each part. I will try that on the next one I
print. Still, this seems as if it ought to be made automatic. (If the
parts can ignore the extra pages, why can't they also ignore the
numbering adjustment that compensates for them?)
One other problem: If you have a long mm rest, say 31 measures, and then
one measure with music, all on one staff line, you can use the measure
tool to adjust the proportions, giving a big space to the 31 measures
and a smaller space for the single measure. In an extracted part, this
manual spacing will remain as the part is closed and reopened, but in a
linked part, you have to look at the affected page and make sure the
manual spacing is correct before printing the part. If this condition
exists in multiple parts, that turns out to be another monumental drag.
In a way, I can understand the difficulty of maintaining the manual
adjustment that is made in the part view, since you are really moving
things in the score, where the adjustment would be inappropriate.
Still, it presents a considerable problem, since it requires careful
examination of each part and possible adjustment before printing, and
the adjustment will be lost, if you need to print the part again later.
Ideas?
Chuck
Chuck Israels
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