Thanks, Robert, for the great input! > 1. Mass Copy <http://robertgpatterson.com/-fininfo/-masscopy/masscopy.html>. > This plugin is similar to the pattern replication feature in Finale but > *without any barline limitation*. Mass Copy could have replicated the > barline-crossing slurs (Estrella 5:20) instead of entering them manually. Usually I always use Finale's Copy&Paste with the Edit Filter (which I control via macros) for copying slurs. But in this case I had a problem. It didn't paste the slur every other measure. The same occured with your Mass Copy. See this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySpUnf00tl4 Do you know of a fix? Or do I have to change a setting?
> Many of the manual tweaks you made to spacing (in both videos but especially > the > orchestra page) appear to me to be related to Finale's abysmal spacing of > ledger lines. Indeed bar 21 of the Tristan's Score can be fixed with it. Bar 19 is not a ledger line problem (or not only). The problem is the width of the 16th note 7-tuplet. > Note Spacing addresses this pretty well. It also gives an > option for addressing spacing after upstem flags. (Penultimate bar of > Estrella.) Oh, yes, indeed another little improvement! Do you have a general setting for "Note Spacing" that you run over every document and which (usually) always improves the spacing. Or do you only use it on selected areas of a document? > 3. Multimeasure Rests > You didn't really do much with the part extraction, but my Multimeasure Rests > plugin > adds a bunch of options. Although the focus was not to produce printable parts, they already look pretty good after the plugin compared to what Finale usually would offer as default (all collision removements and alignments have already been made). In fact the plugin first runs on the score and then on each part individually, so for example hairpin alignments can look different in the score than in the part. Also the multimeasure-rests were optimized with the plugin. First of all, it created them (or removed them if measures had been changed after the MMRest creation). The plugin also has a better algorithm than Finale's own Create Multi-Measure Rests for detecting if a measure is part of a multi-measure rest or not. It also handles G.P. expressions, visibility of expressions attached to the final of the multimeasure-rest (which usually automatically disappear in Finale), collisions with clef changes at the end of the MM bar. The plugin also unifies all MMRests to the current MMRest style from the document settings. You can also have a threshold that decides when to display measure numbers under MMRests (i.e. not under short MMRests). For example in the Harp part the measure numbers appear under 1-17, but not under 19-20. Jan _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
