This question comes from a new Finale (Finale 2003, Windows) user, who has been using Encore for the previous 7 years.
Some of my notation software projects involve taking an old (circa 1900) band score, entering it into the software program, and then re-editing it into a modern band score. The re-editing process involves such things as changing Db Piccolo to C Piccolo, adding Saxophone parts where there were none before, changing Eb Altos to Horns in F, and combining "Solo, 1st, 2nd and 3rd" cornet parts into just "1st, 2nd & 3rd" parts. In some cases, where I have only treble clef trombone parts from the old edition, I enter them with the appropriate transposition, and then later change that staff of the score to conventional trombone parts in Bass Clef at concert pitch. In Encore, this was an extremely easy process, with pull-down menus that allowed me to insert or delete staves at will, re-name them easily, and change their playback transposition with great ease. >From what I can tell from the Finale Manual, there is no easy, sensible way to add a staff in the middle of a score. And when I add a staff, not only does it appear at the bottom of the page, out of score order, it doesn't play back either. Please tell me that there is an easy way to accomplish these simple tasks, and that I won't need to spend hours building a new template for every variation of obsolete band scoring that I run across. (I can't use the setup wizard, because it doesn't have Db Piccolo or Eb Alto Horn, for example, as instruments to select.) Jim O'Briant Gilroy, CA _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
