But, short of what David describes, what I would *love* from Finale (as a realistic stop-gap measure) would be the ability to *easily* move one staff up or down and have all the staves below shift up or down by the same amount. I know you can do this by drag-enclosing staff handles from the bottom up, but this is an incredible pain to do every time you want to nudge a staff a little. Consequently, I use TGTools Staff List Manager most of the time instead, but this is a bit of a kludge for something that ought to be built in to Finale. I don't know about anyone else, I almost never want to move one staff up or down and have all the subsequent staves hold their positions. It would be nice if there were an on/off toggle for this -- maybe "Move all staves below the selected staff" or something -- so that you didn't have to drag-enclose from the bottom up every last time, or fire up the Staff List Manager to make minor adjustments.
- Darcy
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On 19 Feb 2004, at 07:39 PM, David Froom wrote:
Hello all,
My apologies if you are reading this more than once. My email server is
sending (or not sending) messages unpredictably. (This is the last of three
messages I've been trying to send out over the past week).
I was speaking with a friend who used to be a Score user. He now uses
Sibelius (which looked rather good on his Windows machine, especially fast
at inserting measures, changing meters, rebarring). Anyway, he was
bemoaning the loss of something he adored in Score. He said that in Score
one could set the location of the top and bottom staff of a system on a
page, and the internal staves would respace themselves evenly, but would
also shift, making extra space, to avoid having elements bump into each
other.
How I would kill for such a thing (which my former Score-using friend said
didn't exist in Sibelius either) -- saving all the time in orchestral works
"eyeballing" the staff shifting from page to optimized page. I used to use
Jari's space systems, which saved some time -- but it is gone now
(FinMac2004). I know about the TG tools thing which works sort of like
Jari's: you give an evpu number for the distance from the top system to the
bottom system, and it will spread the staves evenly (and you get to choose
whether it compresses or expands or both). But it doesn't search for
conflicts and move things to avoid them.
Can someone write a plug in that would do intelligently manage vertical
spacing within systems? Or has this been done, and I just haven't heard
about it -- or it is too difficult to do?
(By the way -- don't you guys love the way spell check suggests interesting
words? My spell check offers, for Sibelius, "libelous" -- what a hoot!).
David Froom
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