At 2:32 AM 06/10/03, Darcy James Argue wrote: >Make sure you wait at least a couple of weeks. The web is ablaze with >rumors of the long-awaited 64-bit PowerPC 970 (AKA the G5) being >introduced at the WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) in two weeks' >time. You'll definitely want one of those babies.
For the first three months or so I'm going to be constantly on the road, so I definitely need some sort of notebook. The hope is that when I finally settle down again I can hook it up to a real monitor and real keyboard and have it be my regular home computer. Other than that, my needs aren't that complicated. I just need the usual stuff done well. There was a discussion of Mac notebooks on this list a few months back. I was planning to hit the Google groups to find it. Does anyone remember a subject line or other keyword that might help me? I can wait a few weeks (probably will anyway, due to procrastination), but it can't be much more than that, since I leave at the end of the month. [me] >> For an >> orchestra score with one system per page it would be an entirely >> different >> procedure, which I have no direct experience with. (Though it seems >> that >> wouldn't be so hard either....) > [Darcy] >Well, it kind of is. At least, I should say, I haven't yet figured out >a way of doing this -- making sure the bottom staff line appears in >*exactly* the same vertical position on every page of the score -- that >isn't a colossal pain in the ass. I know in theory it could be done >with the page margins, which I *do* use as a rough guide -- but while >it's easy to get it right within a few points (which I always do), it's >much harder to nail it to the very EVPU. And I guess to be honest, >it's not *that* important to me anyway. What's a few EVPUs between >friends? If any of this stuff were ever destined for publication, I >might get more anal about it, but it's not. I assume you must be talking about scores where there's a different reduction on each page, right? Otherwise it's rudimentary. Just go into Staff Usage for the bottom staff and plug in the same number each time. >I would still need to do a lot of moving the staves around in TGTools >-- and, like others, I *really* wish there were a shortcut for dragging >down *all* staves below the selected staff, short of drag-enclosing the >bottom handles -- but this would expedite the "easy" orchestral pages >tremendously. I agree with the request that there be a shortcut way to change all staves below a selected staff, except that I want to enter a number rather than drag. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
