Jerry Berg
Lee Actor wrote:
There's something about the behaviour of copying music with the Mass Edit Tool that's always seemed a little counterintuitive, if not inconsistent, to me. Maybe I just don't have the right mental paradigm for it to make perfect sense. Here's what I mean:
Suppose you want to copy a measure from one place to another (assume "Copy Everything" is checked in the Mass Edit menu). If I select and drag the measure to the new location, everything gets copied, including its time signature, if different. Before copying, a "Copy Measures" dialog box asks how many times you want to copy (unless you're copying to a measure directly above or below the source measure in the same system). However, if you try the same drag and drop method where the target measure is in a different window, no "Copy Measures" DB, and time signatures are not copied (probably other elements are also not copied, but for now I'm only interested in time signatures). The copy/paste method (ctrl-C/ctrl-V in Windows) also does not copy time signatures. The way to get a "complete" copy to work, other than drag and drop in the same window, is to select the source measures, then ctrl-shift-click in the first target measure (don't know what the equivalent is on a Mac).
Looking on the Undo list, the "complete" copy method is termed "Mass Copy and Replace", while the other methods produce an edit called "Mass Replace Entries". I don't see anything in the OLM explicitly naming the two methods, detailing the difference between them, or the rationale behind it. Is anyone more enlightened about this than I am? I'm on WinFin2k3 (until UPS supposedly shows up on Thursday).
-Lee Actor
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