On 7 Jun 2009 at 10:08, Eric Dannewitz wrote:

> I do find that sometimes crescendos/decrescendos 
> sometimes run into the dynamic marking......

Well, has *any* version of Finale taken care of that? I'm way behind, 
still using WinFin2003, and I've never had collision avoidance of 
that kind. But the point is that when you space the music, it 
accounts for room needed for expressions in horizontally placing the 
notes. This is what I understood as having been removed.

In reality, I can think of a lot of cases where I wouldn't want 
expressions to change the music spacing. It's kind of like the old 
lyrics problem -- in 8th-note melismas, the first two notes are too 
far apart because the spacing algorithms allocate all the space for 
the syllable to the first note of the melisma, even though the 
syllable applies to one or more following notes, and there's no need 
to allocate that extra space. Expressions can be like that (e.g., 
"cres."), so not accounting for them wouldn't be the biggest 
disaster.

Maybe I'm overreacting after all.

-- 
David W. Fenton                    http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates       http://dfenton.com/DFA/

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