On 12 Jul 2002, at 4:01, Mark D. Lew wrote: > A slightly different approach to the same idea might be to NOT have > fill-in-the-blank be a special type of expression metatool, but > instead a different way of calling a regular metatool. Perhaps if you > hold down control while selecting a metatool (either my new > shift-click way or the old way), then instead of calling that metatool > directly it, it does the fill-in-the-blank trick, modeling after > whichever metatool you've selected. I can see that being useful for > tempo markings. Maybe you've got your Adagio, Largo, Andante, > Moderato, Allegro, Presto, etc., all set up with the proper playback > definitions, and then you come across something like "Immer noch mehr > zurückhaltend". So you figure, "OK, that's probably about the same as > Largo", so you hold down control and metatool the Largo, then you type > in the "Immer noch mehr zurückhaltend" and you automatically get it > with the same typeface, positioning, and playback as you would for > Largo.
That's a superb suggestion, but in a sense, covered by my subclassing suggestion. That is, "Immer noch mehr zurückhaltend" would be an instance of the "Largo" expression definition with the display text overridden for the one instance. I think that would be a useful extension to the existing capabilities without even consider the issue of type-in-score expressions. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
