On 2011-01-29 23:35, David W. Fenton wrote:
I've been dealing with this creating a complicated set of parts, and
would love to see a plugin that would fill in proper rests for empty
measures. That is, in the piece I'm working on, most of it is 4/2 and
I have the double-whole rest set as the default rest. But there are
measures of 3/2, 3/1, 6/2 and 9/2, some of which have rests in some
of the parts, and I'd love a plug-in that would insert the
appropriate rests in those measures and center them according to the
same algorithm used for centering the default empty measure rest.
The complication there is deciding what kind of rests these meters
should have. For 3/2, I used dotted whole, for 3/1, dotted double
whole rest, for 6/2, two dotted whole rests, and for 9/2 three dotted
whole rests. For these latter two, there's no centering, of course,
but for the first two, I have to center them manually.
A plug-in that did this would be super, but of course, I'm using such
an old version of Finale (2003) that I won't be able to use it. But I
should be upgrading someday soon, so I'd get the benefit if you
created such a plug-in (or included that functionality in the
presently-discussed one).
So such a plug-in would basically consist of 2 different parts:
* Insert rest groups in full rest measures
* Center rests that only consist of one rest division
I think it would be most flexible to do 2 plug-ins here. I would also
think that the plug-in that insert rests should use a scratch document
to define how rests should be grouped for different time sigs. Since
there seems to be little agreement on how to group rests (specially
between different genres and time periods), a dialog UI would quickly
become too complicated and not very flexible.
There's a kind of version of a centered rests plug-in in TGTools.
Best regards,
Jari Williamsson
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