I already enter all cues in my "extracted parts" score, no pasting between docusments. I also change several "parts only" items globally once, in the same score. Same with elements colliding in all parts (rare in my experience).
You're right about later edits potentially having to be done in multiple files, but for me it's rare that a later edit needs to be done in more than 1 or 2 files. To me, a bigger danger in doing later edits in linked parts is that I might inadvertently have Auto music spacing or multimeasure rests on, where a minor edit in one part can affect a different part that will likely go unnoticed. I don't mean to be argumentative; I really am interested in the best work flow. But isn't saying that fewer files is a HUGE time saver something of an overstatement? -Lee -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher Smith Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2018 2:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Finale] Finale Linked Parts: what's missing? Ooh, ooh, ooh! I got this! Fewer files is a HUGE time saver! You can enter all the cues with copy and paste (or the plugin, which I find buggy) without pasting between documents, you can change the font sizes for tempi and rehearsal letters ONCE (or anything else ONCE) and have it apply to all parts at once, if you find something colliding in all parts you move it ONCE and it is solved everywhere, and you can take advantage of JW Copy Part Layout to regularize the page layout. Later edits, too, have to be done twice (once in the score file, once in the part file) but in extracted parts you have to make edits in ALL files, which can be maddening. Christopher > On Apr 22, 2018, at 5:38 PM, Lee Actor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Makes sense. It seems to me you'd also be able to change the tempo marking font size in the linked parts score; I change several global settings in the version of the score I extract parts from that I want to apply to all parts and not to the score. > > With two separate copies of the score, though, I don't see the advantage of linked parts over extracted parts, other than fewer files. How does this save time and effort? _______________________________________________ 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]
