On 26 Sep 2002 at 1:50, Mark D. Lew wrote: > At 9:11 AM 09/26/02, Michael Cook wrote: > > [...] If layer 4 is only used for playback, you can also set it not > >to affect music spacing (in Document Options - Layers). > > Aha, THERE it is! I knew there was a way to tell Finale to ignore the > music for spacing, but I looked for it in the Staff Style definition and in > Music Spacing Options, and not Layer Options.
I'm so glad you replied to this, Mark, because I didn't understand what he was referring to! This setting ought to take care of the problem. Seems to me this should be off by default. > I think this would be more convenient if it were a check box in the > Alternate Notation section of Staff Style definitions (and turned on by > default on the Blank staff styles that Coda provides). I don't see why. When would anyone want hidden or blank notation to effect spacing? I don't even see the utility in having it as an *option*, let alone having this useless option turned on by default. > The problem with Layer Options is that it affects that layer for the entire > piece, so if you want that layer visible elsewhere, you're out of luck. I > suppose you can just get into the habit of making layer 4 always be the > invisible one, but wouldn't that be awkward for playback? I don't usually > do much playback, but I would think you'd want the main layer that you use > for the voice to match the heard-but-not-seen layer, not the > seen-but-not-heard one. Well, I use layer 1 for the principle notation and layers 2 and 3 have always been sufficient for any extra layers I need (which is generally very seldom, as I used voice 2 whenever I can), and it has never been a hardship to sacrifice playback of layer 4. In short, I've never encounterd a situation where I needed music in all 4 layers and also needed to define something for playback that was different from the display on top of that. I guess if you had 3 layers with an ornament in them, you'd run into a problem, but that might be doable in a single layer. Possibly. > I'm sure there must be a way around this, though. Isn't that what the > "easy tremolos" plug-in does? > > On the occasions when I've needed to fix grace notes to play back as > appoggiaturas, I've used the MIDI tool, not an invisible layer. I always use an invisible layer because it is far more intuitive to me to say "play this as a quarter followed by a half" instead of having to figure out how many [whatever] units I have to delay the two notes by. And the music I work with has plenty of appoggiaturas, so I deal with it a lot. -- 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
