At 09:17 AM 4/28/2007, shirling & neueweise wrote: > >>If you make it measure-attached, you can specify the displacement in >>beats from the beginning of the measure, which means it'll still be >>in the right place in the part. > >even better is right aligned to right measure with a specific >leftwards offset to avoid collision with barlines and to look fab.
I don't want to get into a whole thing here, because I was talking about one rather specific kind of thing which is now lost from the quote. Basically, a measure expression on a single staff is useful for indicating the endpoint of a cresc or dim that falls mid-measure with no note to attach it to. My example was beat 4 of a whole note.
But I do disagree with your method for this case. I think that positioning the expression as you suggest would still result in the offset being given as EVPU -- that is, absolute units. Imagine a situation where one instrument has running sixteenths and another has a whole note, dim to p on beat 3. Your way, the p is a measure expression with a left offset in EVPU from the right barline. In the extracted part, where that measure is smaller with just the whole note there, that offset becomes too big -- the expression is no longer under beat 3 in the measure. My way, with an offset in beats from the beginning of the measure, the expression always falls in the right place regardless of how the measure is spaced.
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