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> On Dec 28, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Christopher Smith > <christopher.sm...@videotron.ca> wrote: > > I've too often had Finale parse the spacing > differently while printing and I end up with my 6-bar system as 5 > bars plus one bar by itself on its own line, then the part runs to > four pages instead of three and the 4th page only has one system on > it. Grr. > > I agree wholeheartedly with your philosophy on proper part layout. I > find, however, that having a "to coda" in the middle of a line is not > so bad. Not having a repeat starting a system is WAY worse! > > Christopher > > >> On 28-Dec-14, at 28-Dec-14 10:51 AM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: >> >> I guess my work flow is different from many. I work about 95% in >> scroll >> mode until it is time to do final parts layouts. This seems so much >> faster, getting more of the most useful content on the screen, >> especially when using staff views aggressively. >> >> Even so, when I do switch over to page view, I generally find some >> locks >> have been set. I never tried to figure out why there were some locks. >> Perhaps they were inherited by starting with a copy of another score >> rather then setting up a fresh score from scratch each time. >> >> For me it is no big deal. I simply wipe out the locks and then put in >> my new locks. I have locks on nearly every system because: >> >> * I pay careful attention to page turns, >> >> * I try to put signs at the beginning of lines and "to coda" at the >> ends >> of lines >> >> * When possible, I avoid splitting musical lines across systems >> >> These things all lead to more accurate reading. By taking an extra 10 >> minutes on the layout, I can save 20 minutes in rehearsal and have >> fewer >> errors in performance. >> >> >>> On 12/28/2014 6:53 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: >>>> On 12/27/2014 7:49 PM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: >>>> Is this a facet of the page view mode? I work almost exclusively in >>>> scroll mode until the final layout time and this just doesn't >>>> come up >>>> much as an issue. >>>> >>> It should never be any sort of an issue in scroll view, since >>> there is >>> only one very long system. >>> >>> ----- >>> David H. Bailey >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >>> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >>> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
