I'm not a regular user of linked parts -- yes, I still make a copy of the score and extract from there -- but I did make a reasonable effort several years ago to incorporate them into my normal work flow. I gave up after a month or so due to encountering too many situations that required special workarounds, and decided linked parts were costing me more time than they were saving.
So given my admittedly limited knowledge, here are some items that I found to be more trouble in linked parts than it's worth: 1) Cues are a mess, esp. in orchestral scores with 2 wind parts on a staff. 2) Can't have different music spacing in score and parts. I like my parts closer spaced than the score. 3) Can't have different clefs in score and part (e.g., a high bassoon 1 part might mean tenor clef for bassoon 2 in the score, but should be bass clef in the part). 4) Grace note spacing. I encountered other issues which can be fairly attributed to pilot error, and some of the above problems may have already been addressed. I'm ready to embrace linked parts, as soon as the pain of special cases and workarounds is exceeded by the benefits. Obviously this is a subjective judgement. -Lee -----Original Message----- From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Patterson Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2018 6:32 AM To: finale Subject: [Finale] Finale Linked Parts: what's missing? I am starting a new thread because my comments seem to be buried in the recent Dorico thread. I would like to poll this list about what features are missing from Linked Parts. I am doing so with an eye towards a possible plugin to address what can be addressed. Things that cannot be addressed by a plugin are * allowing special tools in voiced parts * unlinking items that Finale currently can't unlink manually The kinds of things that are likely to be addressable are in the area of page layout. In fact I already have a plugin that can copy a page layout from one part to another. And Jari has made one that copies everything down to the note spacing. But maybe there are things we've missed or U.I. issues. What prompts this request is the discussion of Dorico "layouts" which seem very similar to linked parts in Finale. I'm curious if there is functionality there that a plugin could bring to Finale. _______________________________________________ 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
