First, this is not a bug. Optimization only should be done when you're essentially through with the layout, including which measures will be on which systems. (If you're expanding staves, you're not through with layout.) In other words, lay it out just as if the empty staves will be part of the final music. When you're happy with how everything looks, apply optimization to remove empty staves (if that's what you want). Yes, you'll then need to make vertical adjustments to account for the empty space left over in systems where staves are removed, but that's it.
A system retains its optimization unless/until you remove it manually or if you turn off Special Part Extraction (if it had been on). Ths is why you don't want to still be moving measures around with optimized systems in effect, because if a measure gets moved to a previously-empty and thus optimized (removed) stave, it disappears until you remove optimization for that system. --Richard Huggins > From: James Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Piano piece, all systems had been previously optimzied: Mass select all of > top staff (page or scroll view), '2' meta-key to expand. (Settings for > expand: to 2 staves, 1 note each staff, extra notes in bottom, new staves > created below existing ones). Do expansion. Instead of now having 4 > staves, I end up with the existing lowest stave containing what should of > gone into the new stave and the extra notes are nowhere to be seen. When > I remove optimization from the systems, everything works as I thought it > should - two top staves are the orignal, no change, 3rd staff has one note > per beat, the 4th staff has 1 or more notes per beat. I usually don't mess > with optimized systems and thinking about it, this 'bug' sort of makes > sense. Can you in fact not expand staves within optimized systems? _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
