On Apr 12, 2010, at 1:09 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: >> Respace Staves goes back at least to v3.0 (early 90s). > > It was in the first version of Finale I ever used, 2.01, back in > 1991. My guess is that it's a near-original feature, and I'm glad to > hear it's been enhanced. > > What I'd like, though, is the ability to set the top and bottom staff > and then have the ones in between spaced evenly automatically. Is > that available in current versions of Finale?
Yes, that's what I meant to ask; when the ability to respace staves on a system-by-system basis was introduced. It appears that hasn't been around forever. The feature isn't obvious though. You must optimize the systems (not letting it remove staves), then when you're in the staff tool, drag enclose the bottom handle on the staves and do the Respace Staves function. Unfortunately, Finale won't do exactly what you want. You have to fiddle with the numbers in the dialog until you get the resulting system height you want. It would be nice if there were a simple "distribute staves evenly" command that would keep the top and bottom staves where you put them, but the only option available right now is to keep the top staff position where it is. Sounds like a plugin could accomplish this task very easily… Rich _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
