Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 12:27 PM 6/9/03 -0400, Andrew Stiller wrote:
I find that layout in recent versions goes very quickly and easily. The key thing, I think is that one should do as little dragging as possible. Virtually all movement of staves and systems should be done with plugins (notably TGTools and JW Space Systems) and by entering numbers in the Adjust Page/System Margins dialogs. By these means, you can select any number of systems across any number of pages and adjust them all simultaneously.
When you speak of moving "staves" I assume you mean systems. If you really do mean staves, most of the vertical adjustment between staves should have been done in scroll view before even starting the real layout. It should seldom be necessary to drag staves very far at the layout stage.
I did mean systems (most of the time). For some reason, the plugins don't quite do what I want -- maybe I'm not using it correctly, but I see nothing in TGTools that allows me to make staff-by-staff or system-by-system adjustments.
For example: There will be a stray note high or low, and I only want that system or staff moved on that page. Or there will be a line of notes that's higher or lower that goes on for a page or two, or a bunch of dynamics that need a staff moved out of the way for them to fit, or a particularly scrunchy batch of hairpins and text notations. Sometimes for legibility I want to spread out the staves and systems of a piano part only on one page, and the tools to space systems evenly end up with gobs of white space that I don't want. Or I have added an ossia just above one system in one place. Or, less frequently, I want to change the look of a few systems in a more graphical score.
These are all dragging adjustments in my mind, and pulling the handle too far after multiple drags (because it doesn't drop where you drag it in layout) will spill things over on the next page. Have I missed something in those plugins that make this easy on a per-staff/per-system basis?
Dennis
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