Brian, Your method will certainly work and I have used that in the past. But the drawback to this method, that I can see, is when I make a change in one of the original parts or staves the resulting copies do not change as well. I would like to only have to make a single change in, say the A part, and have it show up automatically in the other parts.
Onward and upwards... Thanks, Ralph On 12/9/2012 12:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > You can create all the parts you want in scroll view, then hide the ones you > don't want in the score. The hidden parts all still appear in scroll view > but will not appear in the page view score or the printed score. They CAN be > used to create linked parts. I use this all the time for things like a > baritone t.c. part in concert band pieces - I want to have the linked part, > but I don't want it cluttering up the score. I also use it to create things > like separate clarinet 1 and clarinet 2 parts if I want them together in the > score, but separate as parts. > > To hide a part in scroll view, just double click on the staff with the staff > tool chosen to bring up the staff attributes dialog box. From here can > choose "force hide staff" in the left hand column. Also choose "in score > only" from the pop up menu beside it. By using the pop up menu at the top of > this dialog box, you can choose all the staves you want to hide in one > operation. > > You can enter all your music in your A, B, C parts, then just copy and paste > in scroll view to get each part into the various parts you want to have > playing that music. The A B C parts can be in concert pitch and they will > transpose automatically as you paste them into each transposing hidden staff > that you have set up. For best results use the score manager to add the > extra parts - that way all the transpositions will be set up for you > automatically. > > This can give you a lot of extra lines in the scroll view score, but only the > parts you have not hidden (your A, B, C.... parts) will appear in the page > view score. So even if your score has only six parts, you can have any > number of linked parts based on those. > > Also, spacing of staves is completely independent in the two views, so you > can just space the scroll view staves nice and evenly, and it won't affect > any formatting you do in page view. > > I think this is a fantastic capability in Finale, one of the most useful > things they have added. > > > Brian Appleby > ApRo Music -- Ralph W. Whitfield, Jr. Bass Trombonist - Gadsden Symphony Orchestra 2nd Trombone - Rome (GA) Symphony Orchestra Bass Trombone - Kings of Swing www.rainbowbrassmusic.com "Trombonist by Nature, Engineer by Necessity." _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
