The lines that form repeat boxes are not "smart", that is, they keep the
same length regardless of how the music gets spaced, and they do not break
intelligently at system breaks.
I had a very long first ending over three systems, and I had to manually
adjust the box ends for the
1) first box start
2) first box end
3) add in a Smart Shape line to cover the middle system so that it showed
as if it was a repeat box
and I had to do this on ALL my extracted parts, then again in the score (I
couldn't set it in the score, because sometimes the line is so long I
can't even see the handles in Page View, and have to resize them in Scroll
View) so there is an hour or so of my life I will never get back again...
grr!
Furthermore, when a first ending ends with a multimeasure rest, I often
lose the repeat bracket over the dotted double line in the extracted
parts. I have to delete the repeat and enter it again, once more for every
extracted part that has a multimeasure rest just before the repeat.
Christopher
That's why I always use Custom Line Styles for my Repeate boxes/lines. They
are smart and always size properly. Also, you can add continuation text for
multi-system 1st endings. I also like to put a right-arrow head at the end
of the 2nd ending line...not traditional, but REALLY clear.
Bill Duncan
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