Re using Mass Copy: To replicate a 3-beat pattern you need to select 3 beats in the source. In your example, you should select the rest following the slur. Pro Tip: In this case because the target region is adjacent the source (as is often the case), all you need to do is extend the selected region to cover the target. You do not have to deselect the source. Mass Copy recognizes and ignores the source region. You can also replicate vertically as well as horizontally.
Re using Note Spacing: I run it frequently on the whole document, both on score and parts. I almost never use the 4 key any more. I have it on a macro and configured so that the dialog box only pops up if I am pressing the modifier key. (Shift on Windows.) The upcoming version 5.11 will include the ability to flag measures that one has hand-tweaked and skip them. (The doc page describes it.) ProTip: to space the whole document it is not necessary to select anything. Just run the plugin without a selection. You can also replicate multiple staves vertically (as well as horizontally). Re Multimeasure Rests: Adding an option to hide measure ranges if the number of measures is smaller than X is a great idea. I may add that when Finale makes it possible for plugins to unlink measure number position/visibility. (Currently plugins can't do it, but Makemusic has stated that it is planned.) The "using an expression instead of mm rest for 1 bar" serves the same purpose, but just for multimeasure rests of 1 bar. On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Jan Angermüller <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
