Thank you Dennis, I will try this.
As I was working yesterday, I finally got frustrated enough to stop
the process and extract the parts. The extracted parts retained the
work that had been done with the linked parts and inherited the
voicing characteristics that had been set up in the parts management
dialog. In balance - this element of the new system seems to be well
worked out and is more than worth learning to use.
But as soon as the parts were extracted and I went back to working in
individual documents, things began to go smoothly and quickly. I
don't know if this is because the linked parts system is still in its
infancy, or if its characteristics simply function in ways that slow
down my work flow, but I have spent the past two months stubbornly
trying to make it work only to be mightily relieved the moment I
finally abandoned it. YMMV. I am reminded to be careful what I wish
for, I might get it!
I so much want this to work, but I'm beginning to be convinced that
it is counterproductive for my work style, and that the time required
to open and edit a few documents to make corrections is trivial
compared to the time I have spent attempting to bend this method to
my needs.
Chuck
On Sep 30, 2006, at 11:33 PM, dc wrote:
Chuck Israels écrit:
I am now trying the method David describes below for the first time,
and I find that it works pretty well but for the fact that the beams
are un-editable in the parts. (Special Tools will not move them.)
Since the beam placement is done in the score with two or more notes
on the stem, the placement with only one note should be different,
and it doesn't look good to me. You cannot apply Paterson Beams
plugin in the part (or any other plugin) and going back to the score
where there are two notes on the stem doesn't solve the problem of
how things will look in the part. Am I missing something?
You can apply Patterson Beams (and most other plug-ins) if you use
the new version of his plug-ins: you open the plug-in in score
view, switch to part view, and apply it. Quite annoying, especially
for plug-ins with settings, such as PB, because you can't simply
run it without having it "open". And then, you waste a lot of time
going from score to parts and back.
This is probably the most irritating "feature" of linked parts...
Dennis
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