He wasn't using Mirroring in the same sense that Finale has "Mirrors."
He was just using the term to indicate "taking a selected passage and
copying it to a different location."
"Mirrors" as Finale uses the term means telling Finale that you want
measures 100-120 (for example) to be exact copies of measures 20-40.
That way any edits you make in measures 20-40 are immediately copied to
measures 100-120. You can't make anything different between the two
sets of measures. It makes it easy if you always want exact duplicate
measures, but you can't even change the articulation in measures
100-120. To do any edit which is different between the two sets, you
have to break the mirror link, at which point Finale writes the data
into measures 100-120, giving you two sets of data. When the "Mirror"
link is intact, there aren't two sets of data, there is the date in
measures 20-40 and some sort of pointer in measures 100-120 which says
"put whatever is in measures 20-40 here also."
I've never used it either, other than to experiment with it to see how
useful it might be.
It would be very useful for someone who is using the "never write
repeats or D.C./D.S. -- write everything out straight through so nobody
can ever get lost" approach. But since I don't do that, I prefer to use
the copy/paste approach to duplicate sets of data and then edit each of
the sets of data so there can be some variety.
David H. Bailey
keith helgesen wrote:
Will someone please explain- I words of one syllable please- what Mirroring
actually is?
In ten years of Finale I've never known- and certainly never used it.
Cheers K in OZ
Keith Helgesen.
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Subject: Re: [Finale] mirroring behaviour
Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 20.09.2007 Johannes Gebauer wrote:
I am having problems in 2k7 mirroring passages using the method to
shift-option-click on the target measure. This doesn't work with
mirroring, it seems, and I am now remembering there was a bug
somewhere. Can someone tell me what the workaround was?
Actually, it does work after all, only the items to copy dialog comes
up, which is a little confusing, since I don't think it does anythign in
this context.
Johannes
It's just ctrl-click on Windows (or is it shift-click?) to copy as
you're trying to do -- adding both modifier keys brings up the items to
copy dialog.
So try just shift-click or opt-click and it should work as it used to.
This was changed with Fin2006, if I recall correctly.
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