Robert Patterson wrote: > > I don't think I understand Steve Parker's comment about "MT scores". I > don't doubt that Finale requires stitching together thirty files, but I > don't understand the requirement well enough to understand why. > > My question about different layouts is, are they anything like linked > parts? Because an improved interface for copying part layouts is definitely > something that I've wanted and could actually be done by a plugin.
I have Dorico and have been learning it, on and off, while they finish up the program. It is impressive. The layout options are based on Dorico understanding every line of music as a stream of notes that can be reformatted and placed anywhere. The stream of notes are pitch and duration, not locked to measures. So if you change the meter, or combine measures, or whatever, Dorico rebeams, adds or takes away dotted notes/tied notes, etc. All overridable, based on individual or global choices. On pages, you have text boxes that can have anything, but mostly are for header/footer things as one kind of box (filled in as linked to file information you supply elsewhere) and music boxes. The music boxes can be made to any dimension, dragged around the page, and can contain anything you like — from individual parts to sets of parts, from any of the movements (flows). So, for example, they like to show that it is dead simple to do a piano four-hand score with piano two on the left side, piano one on the right side. And, with minimal work, reformat it with piano two on top of piano one, or even (for two pianos) piano one and two as separate parts. The default choices, of course, are full score and individual parts, each completely controllable, with intelligent choices about what is linked to the score and what isn’t. I haven’t lived with this very long — and if there are Dorico people who want to refine or correct what I wrote, please chime in. David Froom _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
