>From your description I assume you're using the standard technique of using TGTools "Smart Explosion of multi-part staves" to separate the wind parts in a copy of the score file, then extracting parts from that. Before extracting, you could just use Mass Edit to select the entire part and run the standard plug-in "Change to Default Whole Rests". This will work as long you don't have anything attached to the "real" whole rests (e.g., like fermatas). Since I spend a lot of time tweaking parts, I don't find it particularly burdensome to correct this problem after the part is extracted. It's easy to spot the rogue "real" whole rests, convert them back, and recreate multimeasure rests on the whole part at once. But I agree that it is kind of annoying that multimeasure rests aren't a wee bit smarter to include whole rests to which nothing is attached.
Lee Actor Composer-in-Residence and Assistant Conductor, Palo Alto Philharmonic http://www.leeactor.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Andrew Levin > > I have a question about parts and scores. I know the long way to fix > this, but I'm wondering if there is a short way. > > Specifically, I'm writing an orchestral score that has, of course, > two parts per woodwind line. There are times when it alternates > between one part playing and two, so I keep the parts separate. For > example, the first part may play continuously, but the second part > may play only every other measure. > > For this I'd keep the first part stems up, but the difficulty lies in > the second part where there is nothing in the measure. I'd like to > show the whole measure rest in the second part. But this part of the > music is in 3/8 time. That means forcing a whole measure rest (and > dealing with the annoying dialog box reminding me that I've put too > many beats there). Then, of course, extracting parts (first with > TGTools) is problemmatic, since I now have real rests instead of the > Finale make-believe rests (I forgot what they're called), which > botches up multi-measure rests. > > I know that if I could just deal with a score with no rest in the > second part, or alternate putting in a "1." designating the solo > part, my problem is solved, but that's not the way scores are done > (I'm speaking of fairly rapid alternations of solo and duet parts, > not when a solo part plays for longer stretches). If I put in real > whole measure rests, then I must find them all when it's time to > prepare individual parts. > > Am I missing something? Is there a way with Finale itself or a > plug-in that will help me here? > > Thanks. > > Andrew Levin _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
