Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Hi all,
Finale 2007.
I am doing 30 parts from a 700-measure pencil score of a double-orchestra
piece -- parts are due before the full score (just a few days left!), being
proofread by the client one at a time.
A score needs to be built from the parts. The parts have separate key
signatures and barlines (meaning in the same place, but some single and some
double). I know I'll have to fake the separate barlines, but I have a labor
question.
All parts in orchestra 1 share hairpins and dynamic expressions; all parts in
orchestra 2 share hairpins and expressions, but they are different from
orchestra 1. The parts were made on templates containing all those hairpins
and score expressions.
I can paste everything except the hairpins and expressions to build the score,
of course, but when I'm done, how do I paste only the expressions to the two
separate groups of staves? As it stands now, if I select 'measure expressions'
in the mass edit dialog, the items paste to all staves.
Am I missing something in the paste dialog?
I can't answer whether you're missing anything or not, but for what it's
worth, the way I'd approach the task at hand is to fake it. I'd create a
blank staff at the bottom of the system for Orchestra I, and a blank
staff at the top of the sytem for Orchestra II, spaced so that the blank
staff at the bottom of Orchestra I would overprint the top staff of
orchestra II, and so that the blank staff at the top of orchestra II
overprints the bottom staff of Orchestra I. Then I'd hide everything in
the blank staves, including the staff lines. Based upon previous
experience, this should leave you a system with the left bar line of
each system extending up (or down) from the sytem. Determine the proper
placement of each system on the page, and run each page of the score
through the printer twice, the first time printing Orchestra I, the
second time orchestra II.
The obvious disadvantage is that you have to fiddle with the paper. The
advantage is that you don't have to worry about the internals of copying.
When I do such things as this, I make a note to myself as a text block
set to display only on screen in which I detail what I did to achieve
the result.
ns
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