On 28-Dec-06, at 5:20 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Chuck Israels wrote:
Hi David,
The problem is that things don't work the way one might imagine if
you leave that "Break Multi-measure Rest" box unchecked. If you
have a 6 m. rest with an expression attached to the last measure,
the program only accommodates (shows) expressions attached to the
first measure of the mm rest, so anything at the end does not
show. There are workarounds, but they seem kludgy and fussy to me
- requiring multiple operations. I was wondering if anyone had
come up with anything elegant.
Maybe it's one of those things that is not easily solved, but I
been surprised by my own blindness and the insights of others in
the past, so I have reason to hope.
[snip]
Perhaps you could place it as a text block after the multimeasure
rest is created?
This is how I have always done it. I have an expression all created
and ready to go, with the measure placement set to get it as close as
reasonably expected to the correct place, and assigned to a metatool.
This way it is a one-click patch repair on each part. Happily, when
you assign a measure-attached expression to a multimeasure rest, it
thinks that the entire rest is ONE measure (the first measure), so it
works out unless you edit the rest by breaking it up later. The
expression thinks it has been assigned to the FIRST measure of a
multimeasure rest, so you might have to keep that in mind.
I HATE breaking a multimeasure rest to show a DS on the last measure.
That's just plain wrong. I also hate having to remember to repair the
extracted parts like this, but it beats the alternative.
Christopher
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