David H. Bailey wrote: > > When I use a metatool to place a text expression, I can't edit that > placement individually from any other placement
If only want to affect one expression, why wouldn't you just drag it where you want it? Effectively, that *is* what you want, because when you drag it, you are offsetting from the default position given by the definition. (I'm hoping a new version of TGTools Align/Move might include an align to baseline option for individual exps, so we don't have to do it by eye and hand alone.) It is true that you need to create different definitions for different default placements. This is one reason the description field is there. I see this as a very small issue, and I don't know what a reasonable alternative would be. (One thing that would be nice is if we could program upper and lower case metatools.) > I'm just expecting too much of the program as it comes out of the box -- > I figured it would give alignment of expressions when I placed > expressions and it would be up to me to move those which collided, if I > didn't want them aligned with the other expressions. I haven't seen the final template libraries. Last time I looked at them in beta, they seemed to do that for me. > my first 4 quarter-note test > would have no collision, yet Finale seemed to think it would and so it > offset my 4th beat expression). I would have to see the example. I could not reproduce your scenario with the version I have. It depends very much on where your staff baseline is and what the offset values are in the expression definition. Assuming you haven't done this already, change all your offsets to zero (for one exp., like F). Then assign it to a series of quarter notes as you did, and move the baseline up and down and watch how the placement changes. (It helps to do fairly extreme moves.) Then set the baseline about where you want it and transpose the music up and down and watch. Personally, I like a staff baseline offset of 0 and an entry offset of around -48 evpu for exps below and 12 to 24 evpu for for exps above. > I can see that I will have to edit all the expressions in my libraries > to get them to work as I want them to with the new version. If you are talking about pre-Fin04 work, I don't see how you could expect any differently. Think of the hue and cry if importing an old file into Fin04 caused all the exps to move around! Naturally, existing files use the manual placement options, as the they absolutely should. One thing you've utterly failed to mention is the automatic *horizontal* placement. For my taste, MM completely nailed this. The only reason I'll ever need to drag another exp horizontally is to avoid collisions. -- Robert Patterson http://RobertGPatterson.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
