On Thursday, May 9, 2002, at 03:25 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: >> Also, I personally haven't had a problem with text block >> placement using page reduction since I started putting page >> text blocks (i.e. headers and footers) OUTSIDE the margins. >> 'Nother thing is that I get better results with staff spacing.
> Hmmmm. That's an interesting idea. The idea is to have elasticity at the outermost level possible and that there's really two main margin rectangles: the PageMargins and the MusicMargins. Of course this is only conceptual, but we can imagine that our header and footer vertical placements extend to some maximum outset from the MusicMargins--i.e. the PageMargins. Fortunately, because Finale allows us to have placements for these text blocks relative to the margins, and the margins are in turn set relative to the page size, a reflow under these conditions will keep everything looking good. In addition, because we now have no page text blocks inside the MusicMargins, Finale has one less problem to consider when dealing with staff spacing. Lastly, I don't see how this scheme prevents one from using either system or staff reduction to take care of things as the occasion may arise. One final note might be that as you previously mentioned, it's important to be able to spend the hour deciding whether or not it's gonna be Dm7 or Dm7b5. Much more than to spend it tweaking page elements when changing from portrait to landscape at different page sizes. Best wishes, Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
