On 6 Jul 2007 at 20:21, Christopher Smith wrote: > 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.
Did you go into the document properties (or wherever it is in current versions of Finale) and set the sizes for new staves to fit any redefinition of it that you did when setting it up? If you didn't, then I can't see how you'd expect Finale to know (though a checkbox that said "inherit the previous system settings for all new systems" would be excellent). > 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? Uh, zoom tool? Is that something new? The only zoom tool I know of does not have any effect on actual page layout, only on display magnification. > Anyway, tech support claims this was resolved in the 2007a release, > but I saw it in 2007c. I still don't understand the problem! But that may be because I'm a 2003 Neanderthal. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
