I may be one of the more patient people - tolerant of a few glitches
in Finale, but I am still uncomfortable with the new staff lists and
can't quite figure out how they work. For instance, pre 2009 one
could simply check "top Staff" and the expression would show up on the
top staff of the score and each part. Now (unless I'm missing some
essential bit of information) one must check each individual part to
get the expression to show. There are things not to like about the
new expression implementation. I am hoping for improvements and
simplification in 2010.
Chuck
On Mar 16, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
Speaking of safety, if you have an expression assigned using Staff
Lists (like rehearsal letters or tempo markings) then you delete
measures before the bar with the expression, the expression
disappears in all the linked parts except the one at the top of the
score. I lost all my rehearsal letters and tempo changes for several
files like this and had to delete them from the score and reassign
them. Big drag.
It is also possible to copy measures from another document created
before linked parts (pre 2007), intending dynamics and instructions
to stay attached to the instrument whose part you are copying, and
to have some OTHER expression show up on some other totally
unrelated staff, but only in the linked part. This has to do with
how Finale translates staff lists from old files. Fortunately, the
unwanted expressions all show up in the Misc. category, so you can
track them down there and delete them.
Christopher
On Mar 16, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Barbara Touburg wrote:
Just to let you know:
I'm involved in a slow conversation with Matt K. (I don't know his
last name), one of the people at the "helpdesk" at Makemusic.
Discussing the current limitations of the expression assignment
lists (nowadays called staff lists), he asked (sounding a little
surprised):
There are 8 staff lists - can you give me an example of where you
would use a 9th? I would be happy to provide the example to our
developers.
and I responded with:
I suppose you don't read the SHSU mailing list?
I posted a message comparing the staff assignment list with a
colour pencil box - removing certain colours from it just because
some people just don't know how to use their colours right.
I *do* know how to use the assignment lists. I use them kind of
like style sheets in DTP programs. I design them very methodically.
For example (and I've said this already on the SHSU list): in an
orchestral piece I create a list for all wood instruments, one for
all brass instruments, one for the strings, etcetera. When the
composer wishes to add an instrument to one of the groups, I add it
to the appropriate list, to ensure myself that it too gets all the
markings the others in the group already have. To restrict this
tool is to restrict *me*. I use it for safety, and you have taken
that away. I'm definitively *not* happy, and I'll be going back to
version 2008 and staying there as soon as I have finished this
Mendelssohn project.
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