Hi, Jari - this might be the place to renew a suggestion: how about a plug-in that will apply document settings from one file to another? As I've tweaked my personal templates over the years, I find myself re-doing older files with my most recent file settings, a pains-taking project. These would include basic text blocks & placement (title, page numbers, instrument, date) and layout (system percentages, system & page margins.
Thanks again for all of your work and contributions! Giz Richmond VA |-----Original Message----- |From: JWplugins [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jari |Williamsson |Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 5:27 PM |To: JW Freeware plug-ins for Finale |Subject: Re: [JWplugins] New accidental setting | |Hello again! | |The reason I asked about the linked part before (regarding the cover page idea), is |because of the technical limitation text blocks and linked parts in Finale. Text |blocks can't be inserted to just one part (to display in just one part they need to |be hidden in all other |parts/score) and it easily becomes a visual mess if (for example) the score |contains a title page and the parts don't. | |I have a couple of old ideas that are related to your cover page template idea |(such as "table of contents" pages, custom page borders and text style sheet). I |personally too often resort to create information text pages in other applications |for my own material. Let's see if I can merge multiple ideas into one tool in a |future plug-in. | | |Best regards, | |Jari Williamsson | | |On 2013-03-20 20:20, Steve Vai wrote: |> In regards to your question here, I saw this as a composer tool that lays out a |description cover page for a score. It would be a template of sorts that would |outline the instrumentation, percussion legends, Title, composer, is it a concert or |transposed score, special notes about performance or transposition, copyright |notice, composer, arranger and orchestrator info, date of completed |composition, previous performances of composition or special credits such as |"This piece was commissioned by bla bla bla for bla bla bla, And perhaps some |graphics so the page isn't just dry text. |> None of the above would be necessary for parts unless there is a specific note |for the performance of a particular instrument, then it could be automatically |linked to that particular part. One such thought on this is guitar notation. People |have different ideas of how to notate things on the guitar and an explanation |section in the score notes (this template) can be linked to the printed guitar part. |> |> Thanks |> s |> On Mar 18, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Jari Williamsson wrote: |> |>> |>> 8. Cover Page templates: Would be nice to have some pre-created cover |>> page templates or a template you can fill in that would create a |>> cover page that has instrumentation, composers notes, percussion |>> legends etc. The only way I figured out how to do it now is to create |>> a blank page and build something on it with the text tool. Finale |>> redraws every letter sometimes, massive waste of time. |> |> Should this page be inserted to all linked parts? |> |> |> |> _______________________________________________ |> JWplugins mailing list |> [email protected] |> http://jwmusic.nu/mailman/listinfo/jwplugins_jwmusic.nu |> |> | | | |_______________________________________________ |JWplugins mailing list |[email protected] |http://jwmusic.nu/mailman/listinfo/jwplugins_jwmusic.nu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
