To add to that: I would love to have the possibility of defining "staff groups" (like in scroll view) that move up or down in a similar manner. For instance, when doing layout on a full band score, I often want to reposition just the saxes (for instance) when making room, and not move every single staff below the one I'm currently moving.
-- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday, February 19, 2004 5:52 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > I don't think such a plugin exists. I don't know if it's > even feasible. > > 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 > > ----- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brooklyn NY > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
