I definitely second this request -- adding identical hairpins to multiple staves at once would be *extremely* useful.
However, I should point out that in the interim, it's not necessary to use Mass Copy to copy hairpins between staves. You can simply use the Filter to select only measure-attached smart shapes. (Of course, this assumes that the source and destination staves do not use any *other* measure-attached smart shapes -- but if you're careful about the order in which you add Smart Shapes, this usually isn't too much of a problem.) You can also select a group of hairpins and make them all the same length by choosing "Align vertically" from the contextual menu. Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 28 Dec 2010, at 3:26 PM, Matthew Hindson (gmail) wrote: > Thanks Jari for your latest plugins - I look forward to using them when they > get to OS X. It's very generous of you. > > In case you are looking for any further ideas: > > How feasible (or not) would be a plugin that adds a smart shape for the > duration of the selected region? > > e.g. have a section selected, and then it adds a smart shape to that. > > The reasons why this would be useful: > > - it would enable adding e.g. crescendos to multiple selected staves at once. > Furthermore these would presumably be the same length, which is not easily > possible to achieve at present (it's necessary to use Robert Patterson's Mass > Copy plugin). The result would be better, visually. > > - it would make it easier to apply smart shapes to longer regions that go > across pages in Scroll View. At present as you would know, it's necessary to > scroll across, reselect the smart shape, click and drag the end of it to the > edge of the page, repeat as necessary. > > - it would avoid the dreaded unwanted smart shape artifact when, by adding > smart shapes manually, the smart shape inadvertently extends into the start > of the following bar and thus onto the following system across a system break. > > Anyway, just for your consideration, > > Matthew > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
