Thanks, David, Johannes, Christopher et al. for explanations. I tend to do the sections, then - as David does, cut and paste. I can certainly see the advantage of mirrors in 'change of mind by client etc' situation!
Thanks as ever Keith in OZ Keith Helgesen. Ph: (02) 62910787. Mob 0417-042171 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dhbailey Sent: Friday, 21 September 2007 5:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Finale] mirroring behaviour 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. > Ph: (02) 62910787. > Mob 0417-042171 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > dhbailey > Sent: Friday, 21 September 2007 5:46 AM > To: [email protected] > 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. > -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
