-Scot Hanna-Weir
On 4/20/06 9:20 AM, "Robert Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So far, the comments on this thread have glossed over one of the annoyances of
> combining movements into a single file: abbreviated staff names. For a large
> instrumentation it is *really* annoying.
>
> To get full instrument names at the beginning of movements after the first,
> you have to override each instrument name with a staff style whose
> "abbreviated" staff name is actually the full staff name. For a large
> instrumentation this is a true pain in the patootie.
>
> Even so, I think combining is the way to go, but I recommend complaining to MM
> about the lack of a way to turn Full Names back on for a particular bar. I
> have a feeling that now might be a really good time to send this complaint,
> too.
>
> Another step I haven't noticed mentioned is the need to set "Hide Cautionary
> Keys and Clefs" in the last bar of each movement. This setting has a small
> glitch (at least as of Fin05) that if the extracted part ends on a multimeas
> rest, you have to set the bit on the first bar of the multimeas rest. When I
> reported this problem to MM, I was astounded to be told that this was how it
> ought to work. One reason I've quit reporting bugs to them.
>
>
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