Erm. If you wanted to get the same results as page redux 80% using system redux, then you would set your page redux to 100% and system redux to 80% (not 75%). The effect on, e.g., lyrics would be identical. (Their effective size would be the same either way.)
Old habits die hard, I know. Indeed, I had a hard time letting go of page redux myself. But I would not go back now. The only possible disadvantage that I can see is possibly the need to change page-attached text sizes if you decide you want a different music size. But for me this was never a problem, because (when I used page redux) I always used fixed font sizes for page attached text. Meanwhile, using system redux allows these advantages over page redux. 1. Consistent horizontal margins. Consider an orch. piece where different pages often have different reduction requirements. Normally an orch. piece has a left system margin so you can show inst. names. If you have varying page reductions, then this system margin varies with each page reduction. With system redux there is no variation. 2. Consistent vertical margins. With system redux it is easier to set your top and bottom system margins to zero. The effective of this is that the top line of the top staff will line up with the top page margin and the bottom line of the bottom staff (with appropriate vertical spacing) lines up with the bottom page margin. (Using JW Space Systems, for example, you can easily get this kind of vertical spacing.) 3. A consequence of #2 is that controlling which systems flow onto which pages is much much easier than it was of old. 4. By no longer having to specify page text as fixed font, I now have the option of printing a study score or a paper-saving working copy at a substantially reduced size, say, 2-up on letter size. My page text no longer explodes all over the pages of such print runs. We system-reducers have led you page-reducers to water. Will you drink? -- Robert Patterson http://RobertGPatterson.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
