If you want to force multimeasure rests in this case, the meter itself
should show the alternation (e.g., 4/4 + 3/4), so that in neither score
nor part are any further meter changes notated. A good example of this
in standard orch. rep. is the Overture to Westside Story. It starts out
in 4/4+2/4. That is the meter given at the front, and there are no
further meter changed given until it switches to steady 4/4.
About the "Start with 999 always show last 999" in my Measure Number
plugin. FBOW, the Measure Number plugin started out as an enhanced
"Number Repeated Measures" plugin (which comes with Finale). That means
it adds measure number regions in the Measure Number tool to show the
measure count. If I were doing it now, I might use expressions instead.
Anyway, numbers in the measure number tool show on every staff that has
measure numbers enabled (and not on those that don't). That worked
pretty well in the world before linked parts, but it is fairly
incompatible with linked parts. However, forced measure numbers work
well with linked parts because they are associated with specific staves.
I originally added "Start with [...] Always Show Last [...]" to allow
for a situation in something like a drum part where there are dozens of
identical measures in a row. Instead of putting a number over every bar,
you could put one over every 5 bars to make it easier to read. Then you
could have a count-off at the end with numbers over each of the final N
bars. Since "Always Show Last [...]" is not a native option in Finale's
measure number regions, I had to implement it with forced numbers, which
turned out to be lucky.
When you say "Start With 999" you are telling Finale you don't want any
of the measure numbers to appear automatically. (You would need to
specify a bigger number if your selected region contained more than 999
measures.)
When you say "Always Show Last 999" you are essentially saying you want
to force a number on ever measure in the selected region. Voila, a
little used feature request suddenly became indispensable in the new
world order, mostly by accident.
--
Robert Patterson
http://RobertGPatterson.com
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