Jef,
I just tried this and it worked! How could I have missed this for so
long. Only my reluctance to mess around with unfamiliar things kept
me from trying this a couple of days ago, when you first mentioned
it, but I am so grateful, you can't imagine, to Tobias for creating
this, and to you for finding it and pointing it out to me. I'm sure
there are things in Robert's plugins and other parts of TGTools that
will be equally time saving and generally useful, when I overcome my
fear and explore them.
The only thing that did not paste into the selected destination file
were the measure widths I had adjusted by hand. There were only two
of these, so the time saved was substantial, 2 minutes instead of
10-15 minutes. That's an amazing improvement! This makes the linked
parts work for me, in spite of the necessity to reconfigure page
numbers and titles - one set for the score and one for the parts. If
I can figure out some simpler ways to automate that, that will
eliminate what, for me, is the only remaining hitch, and that problem
is outweighed by the advantages even now.
Thank you again, Jef. This is a big help.
Chuck
On Dec 21, 2006, at 4:38 PM, shirling & neueweise wrote:
hey chuck, more grand news.
1. TGTools: modify: transfer: layout: beat charts and measure widths
2. layout tool: **before** doing layout (*) select "apply to PT/
SC" in "edit system margins" dialogue and select the instruments
you want the changes to apply to (!!!!! remember to change it back
to this part only once done!!!) and set system layout as you wish
actually there is (almost) no point in using finale's built-in
layout copy function for large-scale layout duplication, because
you can only apply it to one system at a time (uh...), but (here's
another plug for our plugin godz!!!) i just did this with TGTools
(same place as 1., how the *&? i missed that beats the hell out of
me).
it"s taking me about 30-40min to do the layout for each instrument,
i have 8-7-6-4-4 strings left; each group plays similar materials,
more or less the same density, and although the measures they pause
and play in sometimes vary a little, i just copied vlnI.1 to the 10
other violins, check through them and i need around 5-10 minutes
for minor adjustments to the layout per part. i alkso copied to
the 1st viola, will adjust that and copy across the other violas, etc.
the bottom line: i just shaved about 20-30min off the layout of 24
instruments, which means i get to sleep tomorrow night (have to
print on saturday or i'm dead), thanks to TGTools.
(you can do this of course to extracted parts as well, i'm just
pointing out that there is an easy way to copy layout across parts,
and this seems to be your only hesitation in jumping to 2007 /
linked parts.)
3. layout tool: using fit measure options cmd-sh-f set measures
per system (*)
there is a checkbox for this as well, but i can't seem to get it
working here.
--
shirling & neueweise ... new music publishers
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