On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 06:06 PM, Mark D. Lew wrote:
I move staves within a system using the "Staff Usage" box.
Why that instead of TGTools Staff LIst Manager.
(Andrew
commented, "It should seldom be necessary to drag staves very far at the
layout stage," but that's not my experience.
Nor mine... so I'm curious what Andrew uses as his default topline-to-topline distance.
Particularly for piano scores
with lots of markings, or vocal scores that alternate between single and
multiple verses of lyrics.) I always move staves an even multiple of 6pts
(ie, one staff space),
Good tip! Thanks.
and the default space between staves is also an even
multiple. I do this mostly for the sake of easily keeping track of
distances, but it's also helpful for various odd tricky things I
occasionally need to do with regard to cross-staffing, the most common one
being an arpeggio mark that crosses both staves in a piano part.
On a related note, what's the best way to get consistent placement for apreggio marks in piano or harp parts?
I'm unusual in that for my piano-vocal scores (my main work), I like to
have the bottom system in the same position on every page. I know that most
publishers don't care about this, but it bothers me to see the bottom
systems of successive pages close to the same position but not quite. So
my layout thinking for a page starts with a fixed position for the top
system and a fixed position for the bottom. (Occasionally, keeping the
bottom position constant isn't feasible, but usually it is.) Whatever space
is left over gets evenly distributed between the systems.
I wish Finale made this easier. I don't do this mainly because while do I think it would be theoretically desirable to have the bottom system in the same position on every page, it's such a monumental, time-consuming pain in the ass to do (especially for orchestral scores) that I generally just go for "ah, that looks close enough."
Oh, and I still use page reduction rather than system reduction. I honestly
don't know if what difference that makes. I remember a thread which led me
to believe that my way is old-fashioned and most others have moved on to
system reduction, but I never saw any good reason to change.
Well, it's very useful in orchestral scores, where your system reduction can change dramatically from page to page, but you want page numbers, headers and footers, etc, to remain a consistent size, and you don't want to check the "Fixed Size" box for those text elements.
- Darcy
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