Hello! A new plug-in is now available for download from the Finale Tips site. It's called "JW Instrument Change" and works only with Finale 2012 and later versions.
The plug-in maintains text instructions (as text expressions) at Finale 2012 Instrument Changes for the selected region. The positioning and look of the expressions are handled by the chosen category, and the plug-in is smart enough to move/remove instructions if the instrument changes moves/disappears. Generally, it should be safe to apply this plug-in on the whole document to keep the instrument changes visually updated. The plug-in automatically sets the "break multi-measure rest" option in the expressions. Let me know if you need to be able to set this optionally. TIP: If you just want to mark the instruments in the document, but not print the changes - create a category that uses the hidden text style and use that with the plug-in. The plug-in supports instrument names that use Unicode characters. A currently known limitation is changes for multi-staff instruments (piano to celeste for example), where all staves currently get expressions. I hope to soon fix this in an update. Download from the "Plug-ins" subsection at the Finale tips site: www.finaletips.nu Best regards, Jari Williamsson _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
