I don't think the ossia tool has improved since the old days. Nonetheless, I still use it for doing exactly what it's designed to do: creating a one-measure ossia above a staff, in the margin or at the bottom of the page. It's possible to master these situations without the ossia tool, using staff styles or creating a measure in another file and importing it as a graphic, but I find these solutions more complicated than using the ossia tool. Once you're used to the way it works, it's very fast: no messing around with optimizing/unoptimizing (you can add an ossia directly to an optimized score), no need to fiddle things so as to get a clef or key signature to show up, all options in one place (the ossia measure designer)...
It may not be "intuitive", but I'm used to it and it serves me well! Best wishes, Michael Cook At 20:38 -0800 23/09/2002, Mark D. Lew wrote: >Going off an a tangent, may I ask: What good reason is there to use the >ossia tool instead of a separate staff? > >I haven't tried the ossia tool in at least three years. When I did try it, >I remember concluding that it was very clumsy and many things I wanted to >do were either difficult or impossible to achieve. After a while, I gave up >on the ossia tool and created a separate staff just for the ossia, >optimized out for the rest of the score. > >At the time (I think I was in v 3.7 then), this introduced a few other >problems, all revolving around the problem of blanking out the empty >measures in the same system as the ossia. But now that we've got Staff >Styles to blank out measures, and greater flexibility with barlines, >displaying time and key signatures, etc., those problems are pretty much >gone. > >So I'm wondering: Has the ossia tool improved since the old days? Even if >it has, what does it offer that using a separate staff doesn't? > >mdl > > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
