On Monday, June 24, 2002, at 07:50 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
>>> Is there a way to copy a textblock from one page to another?
>> Text Editor plugin.
> Ah, that's a good point. I never really got to grips with text
> editor, but perhaps you can give me some steps?
Well, you just happen to be requesting the second most geeky
menu item in Text Editor but I'll see what I can do. Firstly
though, the main documentation is in the "Text Block Creation
Notes" portion of the Documentation.
There are three main steps: List, Edit, and Save.
To detail a little further:
1. Choose the Text Block Mode from the popup near the lower
right of any TE window.
2. From the Text Blocks Menu now available, choose "List Page
Text Blocks" and edit the result to contain only the text block
listings of interest. You can assemble text block listings from
several Finale documents and save them to disk to be applied to
Finale scores later.
3. The Page Text block listing contain two lines of gory
details, one or more lines of the actual text block "contents",
and then a few blank lines. For the purposes of copying page
text to another page, we are only interested in two numbers in
the first line of each listing item. The numbers are coordinated
to Finale's method of describing page text blocks in ranges
rather than just a single page (so we remember that 0 (zero)
means "to the last page"). The start page number is item 4 after
the label of the first line and the end page is item 5.
Here is the first line of page text which appears only on page 1.
Note the numbers 1 and 1 in the 4th and 5th positions.
Page Text Block: 1 0 63 1 1 40 0 0
...
To change the page number to page 5 it would look like:
Page Text Block: 1 0 63 5 5 40 0 0
...
4. When you have completed changing the numbers to suit, choose
the "Page Text Block Listing to New Text Blocks" item from the
Text Blocks menu. You do not have to have a selection.
If you would like to have a step through method where each page
text listing offers a dialog to choose new pages, I can
construct a script to do so.
***
Caveats: From about version 1.4.4 Text Editor has a new Unicode
text engine. A number of buglets have appeared with this change.
I've just fixed a bunch in the Lyrics Mode for release 1.5. If
you find things aren't turning out as expected, the solution is
either to downgrade to version 1.4.3 or report the bug to me as
I know the problem area (two-byte characters instead of 1) and
can fix overnight.
Best wishes,
Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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