On 18 Jul 2007 at 14:41, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 02:00 PM 7/18/2007 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: > >But he didn't enter half the music! > > That's the hard part, actually -- calculating the longest measure > length, entering the notes, hiding unwanted rests, and applying the > expressions (including barlines and time signatures). > > >And my bet is that the in-measure spacing for the flute part did not > >take Dennis very long (though he may have had to manually define the > >measure widths). > > Yes, since these are pseudo-measures (defined graphically).
I've done some piano cadenzas where I did them with one long measure, and when the two hands have notation in them that is actually metrically consistent, the spacing worked out pretty well. It sometimes required some tricky composite time sigs to get beaming to come out semi-right, but spacing came out right because of the way I set it up. > Now jef suggested an alternate route that could be effective: to > create additional the parts in linear order, then optimize them and > drag them into place. I tried this in WinFin2K3 and you can't drag the next system up beside the first one. Has that changed in newer versions of Finale? It was the method I first thought had been used, and it would indeed have made spacing a piece of cake. It would be interesting to hear how the Sibelius version was accomplished. > There are numerous possibilities, but the easiest would be if Finale > offered floating sections of score ... oh, and maybe staggered > barlines and curvable staves. :) Seems to me that it would be go a long way towards those goals if you could arbitrarily drag and/or overlap staff systems on a page. Or define a staff flow region within a page, so that your left-hand many- part pair of measures would be one column of the page with the other stuff continuing on in the second column. So far as I'm able to teel, that would require only an extension of existing capability, not a complete rewrite of it. Of course, any software developer knows to beware of users proposing how to solve a software problem! -- 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
