At 01:51 PM 7/26/2007 +0200, shirling & neueweise wrote: >since you have a space betwen the "systems" why not just >reorder (drag) and adjust staff group brackets on the second system >instead of adding all sorts of extra staves which is going to be a >major PITA for parts? >you have to deselect "avoid margin collisions" or whatever in the >page layout tool menu so you can move the S2 up in line horizontally >with S1.
Yes, that's partly what is done on that page. Not entirely, though. I had several pages of re-ordering and had already screwed up plenty in terms of part extraction trying to match other stuff to a manuscript that hadn't been fully written at the time. I finished the score last night along with corrections from pages 1-22, in time to get it into today's mail, since a physical copy was due tomorrow for corrections for pages 23-28. Rehearsals begin in about 10 days. But here's a fun puzzle ... not! Dig this: http://maltedmedia.com/images/finale/_wx-207x.pdf http://maltedmedia.com/images/finale/_wx-208x.pdf The above are drafts #207 and #208 of page 4. Somewhere around draft #450, I re-printed older pages that had been corrected, and found that whole sets of lines (ledger, smart shapes, stems, expressions, tuplet brackets) had become dotted on that one page. I worked back to find the last draft without the problem (I'm glad that I keep incremental drafts after every set of entries or changes). I re-compiled and examined the Postscript to make sure it still created the error (it did), but being 99% Postscript-illiterate, I could find only the few changes I had made between #207 and #208 (adding a fermata; respacing some notes; changing a text line, an 8va positioning, some accidentals, and a pitch). What had happened? Something had become corrupted and I had to guess what it might be. It was corrupted enough that though Ghostscript would create a PDF, Acrobat Distiller would crash. (Finale 2007c.r2, File|Compile Postscript Listing) I fixed it after two hours of hunting. Where would you have looked and what would you have done? Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
