Hi Doug, Your method of single instruments to create the score, then combining them afterward, is what I do generally.
To solve the doubled expression/articulation problem (which of course is WAY worse in V26 with stacked articulations!) I set the filter to copy only expressions and articulations, and copy over from one of the source staves. It’s a pain, and it is far from perfect, but it’s what I do. Christopher > On Mar 3, 2019, at 11:51 PM, Doug Walter <[email protected]> wrote: > > I know the topic of trying to use voiced parts (all but useless to me as it > stands) has been covered and I’ve tried all the workarounds at various times > and know the issues, so I’m not asking about that. The TGTools plug-in “Smart > Explosion of multi-part staves…” often yields better results, but it’s still > not the close-to-100% solution I’m looking for. I’ve also had some success > with the JW Staff Polyphony plug-in. To be clear, this is not just to make > the score look good; I want to retain the convenience of linked parts so I > don’t have to go back to extracting individual parts, etc. > > So after years of trying every method I can think of, I thought I’d approach > it from the other direction this time in an orchestral score I’m working on. > This time I set the score up with each woodwind and brass instrument on its > own line, which of course would necessitate the use of a microscope to read > the score even on 11 x 17 paper at the reduction necessary to fit all the > staves on each page. But my hope is that by using the JW Staff Polyphony > plug-in to combine 2 staves into 1 where possible (Flute 1/2, Clarinet 1/2, > etc.) and then hiding the staves with individual parts in the score, it might > be less tedious. It seems to be promising, but I still end up with double > sets of expressions - dynamics, for instance. > > I can make all this work one way or another and have many times, but I’m > writing in case there is a plug-in I haven’t yet explored out there, or in > case someone knows a way to set the ones I’m using to yield results that > don’t require as much “clean-up” afterwards. BTW, the “old way” - creating > 2-part staves and exploding them later - has been tried both with and without > using separate layers, and I’ve discovered some of those pitfalls as well. > > Thanks for any approaches I may not have thought of, > > Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > 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]
