hi michael, the issue you mention is not a "problem", it is design. think of notation software as a digital grid, not blank 2D paper. the extra staff/staves you add are present in the entire document (i.e. all measures/systems) but can also be hidden selectively in an instant. there are various approaches to hiding, depending on the needs of your music (through the staff tool, selecting handles on the page, or staff styles in various ways).
staff groups are what you need to check out for extending the bracket over all staves of your piano instrument. this needs to be redefined manually because the extra staves you add are not considered part of the piano internally. i have been doing this for years for other reasons (extra staff above the grand staff for objects or percussion instruments that the pianist plays) with no problems, but it requires shifting one's perspective on what the notation sofware is/does and how it is structured, in comparison to notating on paper, where i can add anything for as short or long a passage as i wish. > My issue is with piano music, and there are a few pieces I have >which will briefly require 3 or 4 staves, although I use only 2 for >maybe 95 percent of systems in piano music. (And nothing I write >requires more than two staves for the entire piece.) > I think I found a utility for adding a staff, but there were two >problems with it: Finale added the extra staff for all systems in the >piece, not just the one or two where I wanted it; and the curly bracket >at the start didn't lengthen to cover all staves, but just remained >covering two staves it considered to be the original ones, and not the >extra one or two. > Are there easy solutions to this, please? > Also, does creating an extra staff just for a couple of systems >have implications if, as I edit the piece, repagination occurs and the >distribution of bars on particular staves changes? Do I have to plan >for that, or will Finale look after it if the bars do later get >rearranged automatically (or I rearrange them manually)? -- neueweise -- fonts for new music (and traditional) notation http://newmusicnotation.com/fonts.html shirling & neueweise | http://newmusicnotation.com new music notation + arts management + translation [FB] http://facebook.com/neueweise | [TW] http://twitter.com/neueweise _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
