Hi all,
While the solution Robert linked to is an improvement over how I'd been doing
things, it still requires me to:
(A) delete and re-create instrument brackets wherever I want to
reposition a group name (on one system)
(B) delete and re-create the group name wherever I want to reposition
it (on one system)
I don't suppose there is any way around this? In earlier versions of Finale,
group names were unlinked and moving them on one system only was a simple
matter of clicking and dragging.
Cheers,
- DJA
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On 3 Oct 2012, at 8:05 PM, Darcy James Argue <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> Many thanks! I found that entry, but the language talks only about brackets,
> not group names. I didn't realize it would work for both!
>
> Cheers,
>
> - DJA
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>
>
>
> On 3 Oct 2012, at 7:54 PM, Robert Patterson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> My Google search terms were:
>>
>> Finale 2012 modify staff groups on one system
>>
>> which put me 2 clicks away from:
>>
>> awww.finalemusic.com/UserManuals/Finale2012Win/Content/Finale/Brackets_Staves6.htm
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Darcy James Argue <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Robert,
>>>
>>> I wasn't able to find instructions for doing this on a system-by-system
>>> basis in the documentation. Do you remember what you searched for?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> - DJA
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3 Oct 2012, at 7:07 PM, Robert Patterson <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There's a way to do it (in page view), but it is a bit confusing, and I
>>>> always have to look it up in the doc pages.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Darcy James Argue <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm hoping someone has figured out an efficient way of dealing with
>>> group
>>>>> names in recent versions of Finale (2011 and 2012).
>>>>>
>>>>> For instance, if I want to customize the positioning of a group name on
>>> a
>>>>> single system, in the middle of the score -- let's say from mm.250-255
>>> of a
>>>>> 500-measure score -- the only way I can see to do that is:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Edit the group attributes and switch from "All Measures" to Measures
>>> 1
>>>>> to 249.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) Add a new group, from measures 250-255, re-enter the abbreviated
>>> staff
>>>>> name, click the "Position" checkbox, and enter the desired custom
>>>>> positioning.
>>>>>
>>>>> 3) Add a *third* group, from measures 256 to 500, that has the same
>>>>> abbreviated staff name and positioning as the first group.
>>>>>
>>>>> This procedure gets *really* tiresome very quickly, especially if you
>>> need
>>>>> a lot of custom group name positioning.
>>>>>
>>>>> Isn't there some way to move a group name on a single system only,
>>> without
>>>>> affecting the rest of the score? This used to be quite simple in earlier
>>>>> versions of Finale, before they got rid of the "Optimize" feature.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> - DJA
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>>>>>
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