I am highly encouraged by this news! Perhaps this is just some incarnation of the Staff Reduction Bug that cause the misplacement of expressions. If they fix this maybe that one will be fixed, too. The more new bugs that we find the better the chances that the fix will inadvertently solve others. On the other hand....
Richard Yates >-----Original Message----- >From: Chuck Israels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:24 PM >To: finale@shsu.edu >Subject: Re: [Finale] 2k8 page layout bug > >Hi Darcy, > >No, that's not the issue. And it's just crazy. On a big band >chart I am now working on, some parts have the defined >distance (240 evpus), and others have 88 evpus, or 36 evpus. >Makes no sense to me, and MM support could only relate it to >the fact that there is a staff reduction selected in the Page >Format for Parts dialog. That seems to be the element that >causes the problem. > >I think its a bug, and MM support seems to acknowledge that. >Whether anything gets done about it remains to be seen. I am >finding it increasingly difficult to retain my former optimism >about such matters. > >I'd be curious to know if anyone else encounters this. It is >consistently inconsistent for me - the hardest kind of thing >to pin down. > >Chuck > > > >On Aug 14, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > >> Hey Chuck, >> >> Just to eliminate the obvious -- you don't have "Space >Systems Evenly" >> checked by any chance? >> >> Cheers, >> >> - Darcy >> ----- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Brooklyn, NY >> >> >> >> On 14 Aug 2007, at 12:46 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: >> >>> There is a bug in the 2008 page format for parts dialog. If you >>> define a staff reduction (I use 88%) and then set a >distance between >>> staves for parts, each part in succession has that distance further >>> reduced. The placement for the top staff remains correct. >Only the >>> between staff distance is irrationally changed. This is an >annoyance >>> rather than a work stopper, because the distances can be >re-set once >>> the parts are opened. Still, it's a bug, and I don't >understand what >>> has been introduced in >>> 2008 that might have created this new and annoying >behavior. I don't >>> remember encountering it in 2007. >>> >>> MM support has acknowledged seeing this in files I have sent them. >>> What I have yet to determine is whether or not this appears in >>> documents created wholly in 2008. At the moment, I only >know that I >>> have seen it in documents converted from files created in earlier >>> versions. >>> >>> Chuck >>> >>> >>> Chuck Israels >>> 230 North Garden Terrace >>> Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 >>> phone (360) 671-3402 >>> fax (360) 676-6055 >>> www.chuckisraels.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > >Chuck Israels >230 North Garden Terrace >Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 >phone (360) 671-3402 >fax (360) 676-6055 >www.chuckisraels.com > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >Finale@shsu.edu >http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
