On Jul 6, 2007, at 7:46 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 6 Jul 2007 at 19:38, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Jul 6, 2007, at 3:40 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 6 Jul 2007 at 12:57, Christopher Smith wrote:
16. When new systems get created (say, you add measures to a
piece), they don't have the same staff height as the previous
systems. On linked parts, there is only one way to alter this,
which is Page Layout>Resize Staff System... (the zoom tool appears
to think that the system is already the correct size.)
Haven't seen it yet, but give me time...
Is this not a matter of having the default system properties set
somewhere? I haven't used the linked parts feature, but I know
that's the way it worked for plain old scores.
I'm sure it is, but in that case, why doesn't the zoom tool work on
it? As I mentioned, I can solve it with Page Layout>Resize Staff
System, but so far that is the ONLY way I found. The zoom tool
doesn't work.
But my p oint is that if your default system properties are properly
set before you add the new system, it should come out right. No?
Hmm, properly set, I wonder what that could mean? I entered the music
first, resized and laid out stuff later. For choral works I hardly
ever can keep the initial system settings, as there is always
something requiring me to shrink or expand something somewhere.
I had a choral piece with 2 systems per page. The first page had the
systems set at 67% to make extra room for the title, while succeeding
pages were set at 75%. When I altered the layout to add systems, they
were at 70% (I suppose that was the document default.) No problem, I
thought I knew how to deal with that; click on the zoom tool and make
THEM 75%, too! Whoops, the zoom tool tells me they are ALREADY at
75%, but I can see with my bare eyeball that they are not.
Fortunately, the resize function is duplicated, and under Page Layout
I have Resize Staff Systems, which worked properly.
I dunno, maybe this is more a case of the Zoom Tool not knowing what
the Resize menu item is doing?
Anyway, tech support claims this was resolved in the 2007a release,
but I saw it in 2007c.
Christopher
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