On Apr 17, 2005, at 6:04 PM, Don Hart wrote:
Christopher, I haven't noticed the copying problems you're talking about,
but maybe I'm not trying to move around exactly the same combination of
things you are.
I did notice yesterday that my "Top of score, all parts" staff list had been
duplicated a number of times on a chart I just finished. Each iteration of
the list had a sequential number added to its name.
Aha! Now, go to that score, and drag one of the rehearsal marks away an inch or so. Is there a duplicate underneath it? I'll bet there is one for each sequential number added to your staff lists. If it doesn't happen for one rehearsal mark, try another. This effect makes them hard to edit the positioning, as I'm sure you can imagine.
On that job I was
adding full orchestra to a string arrangement I had done a while back, and
had just dumped the existing strings into the new score. I just checked,
and the original (strings only) file *did not* have the duplicated staff
lists. I don't know exactly when the additional staff lists were added.
I'll bet I know when. Let's say you have a rehearsal mark starting measure 8, violin 1 in the score (set to show on all parts when extracted, as you said.) Try this in a copy of your old score, that has no duplicate staff lists.
Go to measure 8, and with the mass mover drag violin 1, measure 8 down to violin 2 to copy it. Does violin 2 suddenly have a rehearsal mark that it didn't before? And when you check the staff lists, do you have one called "Rehearsal Marks 2?"
But here is the insidious one. Drag measure 8 viola to the cello staff (neither one had, or should have now, a rehearsal mark showing.) Now try dragging the Violin 1 measure 8 rehearsal mark a short distance. Is it duplicated? And do you have yet ANOTHER staff list called Rehearsal Marks 3?
Now the weird part is, I use a combination of copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop. I understood in previous versions of Finale how these two methods differed in function, and took advantage of it to copy what I wanted only. Now, I can't figure out when I set Mass Edit to only copy certain items whether that applies to copy-and-paste or drag-and-drop, or both, or neither in the case of staff expressions? Maybe I just forgot and reverted to my old behaviour, but I can't figure it out.
Christopher
on 4/17/05 3:59 PM, Christopher Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
P.S., on a related note, I am having a very devil of a time with a
score I am working on. I seem to get my rehearsal letters and tempo
markings (staff expressions) copying all over the frigging place
because of the new Copy behaviour, and I can't seem to figure out how
to stop it. I go into the Staff Lists dialogue box from time to time to
delete the duplicate staff lists that keep replicating like Tribbles,
which takes care of much of it. I have the Mass Edit set to copy only
measure-attached Smart Shapes and the usual array of Entry items, but I
can't seem to work out the rhyme or reason to why these settings aren't
taking care of business the way they should.
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