David W. Fenton wrote:
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.
My earliest version still installed is Fin2K4, but I don't this was any
different in 2K3:
In the page layout menu UNcheck the option Avoid Margin Collision --
it's been there for ages and is one of the earliest things I remember
learning about Finale on this list when I first joined way back with
version 3.5. It's still there in the Page Layout menu in Fin2K8.
It's very handy for codas and for scores such as Dennis', although how
he handled it probably isn't all that much more work than the avoid
collisions while dragging other systems around.
In any event, no matter how one handles Dennis' example, he has done a
great job with it.
--
David H. Bailey
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