Johannes Gebauer > > Wouldn't it be easier to do this in the Parts-Score, ie once, instead of > for every part?
In theory, perhaps. In practice, I don't trust Copy/Insert well enough. (It has many bugs and omissions, even in Fin06 which I still don't use.) There are some other obstacles as well, like differences in the numbers and types of staves between different score files. For example, sometimes I concatenate all but the percussion part. I may leave the percussion part in separate files if the instrumentation varies widely from movement to movement. There might in fact be some economies in doing it all at once, but the amount of spinning cursor time involved is just too large. I tend to complete each individual part before extracting the next. This often allows me to find and correct errors before extracting subsequent parts, as well as tweaking the settings in the parts-score based on changes I had to make after extracting the early parts. BTW: an absolutely essential tool for laying out parts is the free plugin, JW Space Systems. It is vastly superior to the built-in system spacing tools, which I have never been able to figure out how to use. (Why bother, when JW Space Systems works so well.) And did I mention, IT'S FREE. RP _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
