Please see my comments below...
Brennon C. Bortz
Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student - Music Composition
University of California, Riverside
---- Original message ----
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:13:05 -0400
From: "Michael L. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Finale] Missing systems in Page View
To: finale@shsu.edu
>On Apr 27, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Brennon C. Bortz
wrote:
>
>> Mike,
>>
>> I've been trying Command-/ and Command-\ (which
both
>> seem to be a shortcut for "Show Multiple
Pages") as
>> well as Command-D for Update Layout.
>>
>
>See, now I thought Command-D was to redraw the
screen. What version
>are you on? I have 2007, but I still mostly use
2004. Are these
>commands that changed in the newer versions?
I may be mistaken...I'm working from memory right
now. I'm using FinMac2006d.
>
>> I'm not at that computer now, but I'll try what
>> you've suggested in an hour or so. I appreciate
the
>> idea, but I'm afraid this isn't the problem
either.
>> If there was an enourmous amount of space
between
>> staves, wouldn't this give me even more pages
than I
>> expect, instead of only one?
>
>Possibly, but I've seen interesting things happen
in that window with
>interesting numbers -- always by accident, but
interesting
>nonetheless. Maybe there's a large negative
number and Finale
>doesn't know what to do with it either. I have
very little
>confidence that this is actually but the problem,
but I feel like
>I've had a similar problem before to what you're
having now, and that
>the solution was something really simple that I
had overlooked for a
>long time before realizing it.
>
I'll give it a shot in a bit...
>>
>> As this is a composition that I have to have to
>> performers by Monday, I need to find a solution
on
>> very short order. I have a huge number of
>> expressions to place and notes to place in the
>> score--you know how new music goes. I guess I
could
>> do this in Scroll View and just wait to find a
>> solution, but I'm wondering if there's a better
way
>> to go about this. What would happen if I just
>> copied everything into a blank document? I have
no
>> libraries loaded that aren't already in my
default
>> document. I do have a few custom shapes that
I've
>> created, however. Is this all that I will lose?
>> Obviously, page formatting isn't an issue, as I
>> haven't been able to operate in Page View yet.
Any
>> thoughts?
>>
>
>I really can't think of anything else, based on
what you've said
>you've done. Whenever I have problems with seeing
things the way I
>think I'm supposed to be seeing them, I always do
a few things in the
>same order:
>
>1. In Mass Edit, select all and select "Apply
Note Spacing". (Of
>course, other people might choose different
spacing options.)
>2. Make sure (in Page View) that the first page
of the document is
>open/active and select "Update Layout." (which
usually is Command-\)
>3. Select Screen Redraw. (which usually is
Command-D)
>
>That usually takes care of all possible visual
problems with Finale.
>But I think you said you've done these things, so
I for one am baffled.
>
>If you'd like, feel free to attach the file to an
e-mail and send it
>to me off-list, and I can try a couple of things
to see what might
>work. I'm on my MacBook, though, which only has
2007 on it. (I
>haven't done any of the updaters yet.)
>
Unfortunately, I'm on 2006...that will cause
problems, no?
>-- Mike
>
>
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