Christopher
At 5:55 PM -0700 6/04/04, Brian Williams wrote:
Actually, if you really want to save keystrokes while conserving layout tweaks -- without going through that tedious Express Music process -- you can do what I and a number of other professional LA copyists do and use the "Special Part Extraction" feature.
Basically, you make a copy of your score and title it "Alto 1" or whatever the first part you're going to extract. Then using the staff tool in scroll view, select the appropriate staff (or staves for 2-staff parts) and turn on "Special Part Extraction" in the Edit menu. Then switch to page view and tweak the entire part to look right. You'll have to change a lot of things on the first part (similar to preparing a score for part extraction.) When everything looks just how you want it, save the file, then select "Save As..." from the file menu and title the new file "Alto 2" or whatever the second part is. Then go back to scroll view, turn off "Special Part Extraction", select the next staff, and turn back on "Special Part Extraction". Go to page view, and voila! All of your layout tweaks and bars-per-system locks from the first part are preserved, but the second part is there instead.
You will need to select all with the mass mover and re-space music (to correct any spacing problems with ties & accidentals, etc.) and change the instrument name, but other than that you're done!
This is *BY FAR* the most efficient method of quickly extracting and laying out similar parts. And every part contains the entire score in scroll view so corrections are easier to make. And to think that Coda almost got rid of Special Part Extraction in Finale 2000!
Brian Williams
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