Hi all, I just got rush job for a client whose scores have tricky bits (vanishing measures, floating staves, etc.), but I've run into one layout issue that I can't figure out if I need to extract parts easily (or do playback, for that matter).
The score has several measures on the left side of the page for the full ensemble, stretching top-to-bottom. At that point, the full ensemble gives way to two measured but unsynchronized solos. The solos are to be placed as if they were separate parts on the page -- hard to describe, but imagine a score page divided in half top-to-bottom, with a full score on the left and two instrumental parts pasted one on the top right, one on the bottom right. The staves line up with the existing staves horizontally and the two solos continue from their large-ensemble lines. The measure numbers continue through the solos, unsynchronized until all the parts return on the next page, when the measure numbering picks up arbitrarily with the largest number. I know that I could create one large measure the width of right side of the page, use graphical barlines and graphical measure numbers, and distribute the solo among the other parts to create the illusion of it being separate. I could define a new measure-number region when the full ensemble returns. But getting parts (much less linked parts) out of this method will be impossible without re-entering the material into the parts and placing graphical multimeasure rests in the parts. Is the description of the problem clear enough? And is there another solution starting at me? Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
