On 24 Nov 2010, at 2:25 PM, David Froom wrote: > Dear collective wisdom, > > Is it really true that smart shape horizontal adjustment in the parts (to > shorten a hairpin, for example) MUST always be linked to the score? That is, > a hairpin crescendo under a half note in the part (which is fairly short) > MUST be the same length as that same hairpin in the score (where that half > note could be holding against 16th notes in another part, and would, > therefore, need to be much longer)?
That's not actually how it works. If you have a hairpin that stretches over two beats in the score, then it stretches over two beats in the part, regardless of how much horizontal space those two beats take up. There are still lots of situations where you'd want to smart shape length to be independently adjustable in score and parts,b but it's not quite as bad as you are making out. > I know that I can get around it by having a score file and a parts file -- > and by adjusting nearly every hairpin in the parts. Of course, any hairpins that need adjusting in the parts would also have needed adjusting using extracted parts, so that situation has not really changed. Anyway, I agree smart shapes should be horizontally unlinkable (they are already vertically unlinkable). Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
