This method is useful if you have just a few time signatures to put in, since it avoids the hassle of creating the shape expressions and permits you to automatically place the time signature on the staff. But with a lot of time signatures to add, and the fact that you don't want them to show up in extracted parts, you're probably better off with the shape expressions.
Best wishes,
Michael Cook
At 15:29 -0500 17/02/2004, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 17 Feb 2004, at 08:17 AM, Colin Broom wrote:
The only way I can think to do this is to force the time signature to show, and its cautionary using the measure tool, then create a staff style that hides the time signature on those staves that you don't want the cautionaries, then create a auto-positioning expression of the time signature( using measure expression tool) and place it on the new system, leaving the cautionary staff blank. If you set up metatools for both the staff style and the measure expression, it shouldn't be too fiddly. That's the quickest way I can think of. I just tried it, and it works fine.
Actually, it was even easier than that. Since there's always at least one time signature change over each system break, there is already space for a "time signature" shape expression on every staff. The only hard part was getting the shape expressions just right. Also, this is a pre-2004 project, so no auto-positioning, but once created, they were easy enough to align. The other benefit is, I can set them up to display in the score and not the parts.
Thanks, Colin! With your help, this was a lot easier than I thought.
- Darcy
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