While your suggestions of mini-libraries is a good one, I am not really clear about why you would want to create them in the earliest version you own. Have you run into problems with backward compatibility with libraries?
Also, how often do you need to use your earlier versions of Finale? I simply keep working on older documents in the newer versions of Finale as I need to and I haven't had a problem with importing them into the current Finale version. I know that back somewhere around Finale97 there were major hassles when opening documents from earlier versions, but since then Coda seem to have solved that problem. At least it hasn't arisen on this list in a very long time. Other than that, I think you have a very good working system for libraries. I do that especially for instrument libraries, with different instrument lists for various ensembles plus different lists for different playback units. Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > Listsibs: > > Perhaps it may be useful for some if I share the techniques by which I > have decided to manage my FIN libraries: > > First, I have decided to create all library items in the earliest > version of Finale that I own. I can always, and easily import them > forward, importing them backwards, if possible, is not nearly as simple. > > Second, I decided to break the libraries up into smaller bits: some > general, like "dynamics", and "tempi", and some specific, "Organ", > "Strings", and "percussion". > > Third, I have decided that any new library item likely to be used in > more than one composition will be added to the appropriate library by > opening an empty document (or a document without libraries), creating > the elements, and saving them as a "micro-library", and exiting the > document. The "micro-library" thus created will be loaded into the > current document, and periodically, all micro-libraries will be merged > into the appropriate larger "master-libraries". The only articulations > that will reside in a specific document are those will most likely be > used only in that document, of which the best exemplar that comes to > mind is the stems of note trees. > > Any other suggestions you'd make in this regard? > > ns > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
