On 26 Sep 2002 at 19:34, Mark D. Lew wrote: > At 7:49 PM 09/26/02, David W. Fenton wrote: > > >To be honest, I've never been thrilled with the way expressions and > >articulations in the blank notation layer still show up. I just don't > >think that's right [...] If the > >articulations in the playback layer (i.e., invisible) were also > >invisible, this simply wouldn't be an issue [...] > > I didn't follow all the details of your example, but you can define the > style so that articulations don't show up on the invisible layer. Try > this: > > 1. Choose "Define Staff Styles" from the Staff menu. > > 2. Under "Available Styles", select the "Blank Notation" style that you're > using. > > 3. Click the "Select" button under "Alternate Notation" > > 4. Uncheck "Show Items Attached to Notes". > > 5. Click "OK" twice to make the change. > > I think this will accomplish what you want. If it does, you can set it on > your templates and never have to worry about it again.
I'll have to try it. Seems a remarkably backwards way to do things, unless you're trying to maintain compatibility with the old *wrong* way of doing things. > (Optional step 6: Complain that it wasn't set that way by default....) I'll be firing off a note to WinSupport. On 27 Sep 2002 at 2:04, Darcy James Argue wrote: > Blank notation is set up to "Show Items Attached to Notes" by default > for a very important reason -- it is the *only* way to show chord > symbols on beats without a corresponding note (or in empty measures). > If, for instance, you want four chord symbols in a measure containing > only a whole note, you have to: > > 1) Transfer the whole note to some other layer. > > 2) Enter four quarter rests in Layer 1. > > 3) Attach the four chord symbols to the four quarter rests. > > 4) Hide Layer 1 using Blank Notation. > > I would bet dollars to donuts that this is the most frequently used > application for the Blank Notation staff style (by far), so it makes > sense that the default settings are set up for this. Would it not make more sense to add a property to chord symbols that allows them to display when attached invisible notes, rather than mucking up blank notation for everyone else? I never use chord symbols and have no need for this functionality. I use blank notation all the time. If the visibility of the items attached to invisible items becomes a property of the item itself the problem is moved out of the realm of staff styles and into the characteristics of the specific items that need to be displayed when attached to invisible notes. Again, it seems to me that Coda has not thought things out very carefully here, that they are maintaining backward compatibility with a feature that was previously wrongly implemented in the first place. -- 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
