Johannes wrote:
To be honest, I have given up on anything _but_ interim measures
with Finale.
[sigh] You're probably right.
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!).
I very much agree. However, in the interim, you can turn off "Play
Finale through Native Instruments AU" on a document-by-document
basis. This will still preserve your AU configuration, so you can
turn it on again to load your GPO instruments whenever you need GPO
playback. It's still a huge pain, since you need to remember to
always turn it off *before* you switch (or close) any documents.
[Hence my suggestion for a "Load AU/VST Instruments only when needed"
document option.]
> 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.
Yes, I agree. I'm just saying there is another problem I would like
solved. Even if you only have three staves per system (for a string
trio, for instance) you may decide that you need to increase the
distance between the Vln. II and Cello staves in the bottom system,
*after* the bottom system has already been correctly spaced on the
page. [In other words, the lowest staff line of the cello is already
on the correct vertical position on the page and you don't want to
lower it any further.]
In Sibelius, if you drag the Cello staff in the bottom system *down*,
it doesn't actually put the Cello staff further down on the page
(which would result in the cello staff been misaligned with the other
pages). Instead, it keeps the Cello staff where it is and moves the
Vln. II and Vln. I staves *up*. If the page is tight and there's not
enough room to move those staves up without causing collisions with
the previous system, it reduces the vertical distance between the
Vln. I and Vln. II staves. This is much more sensible and
intelligent than Finale's method.
What you are suggesting is a plugin that will give you better results
*before* you hand-tweak the vertical spacing. (That is, if it needs
hand-tweaking.) What I am suggesting is a better method of actually
hand-tweaking the vertical spacing in situations where this is
necessary. I think we need both.
Anyway, the whole optimization/respace staves/TGTools Staff List
Manager/Space Systems evenly/System Margins setup is a complete mess.
My preference would be for a compete overhaul (which would include
automatic vertical spacing, but you're probably right that small,
incremental changes are the only things with any chance of being
implemented.
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).
You might try assigning an iKey to toggle "Play Finale through Native
Instruments AU" -- this would allow you to load GPO instruments only
when needed. It's not a great solution, but it might tide you over
until this problem is fixed.
- Darcy
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