On 23:00 Uhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That would be great, as an interim measure.
To be honest, I have given up on anything _but_ interim measures with Finale. No major redesign seems to take place anymore, and if it does it seems to be badly thought out (like the constant loading of GPO instruments in 2k6 when you switch docs, whoever designed this should be sacked by MakeMusic, it's unbelievably stupid!).
However, I would *still* like Finale to completely overhaul the way it handles inter-staff spacing in multi-staff systems. Sibelius does this very nicely -- it's easy to place the lowest staff line on the page in the same vertical position on every page (say, 1" above the edge of the page), and it's easy to lock that position while making adjustments to other staves -- in other words you can increase the distance between the Vln. I and Vln. II by dragging, and the Contrabass staff *does not move* -- instead, the distance between all the *other* staves is reduced proportionally.
I am not quite sure I understand correctly, but I don't think this would actually solve my problem. I am not talking so much about scores which only have one system on each page, I mainly work with much smaller scores of eg three staves. Sometimes it is necessary to have only three systems of three staves each on a page, and I want a _fully automatic_ way for these to be spaced well, which means spacing the staves within each system and spacing the systems as well. I do not want to have to drag anything for these. That's not to say that I don't agree with you that Finale's capabilities need to be improved.
This is one area where Finale lags *far* behind Sibelius in both features and usability.
One of many areas as far as I can see. But we have GPO (which I have completely given up on, since using it makes Finale pretty much unusable when working with more than one document). Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
