I'm not sure if this is your exact problem or not, but it seems worth mentioning. I would suggest that before optimizing you *first* finalize your music and its horizontal spacing, especially, in this case, the number of measures in each system. After doing this the vertical layout can be dealt with more successfully.
Optimization is system specific, at least in this situation. Here is an example (hopefully clear) of a potential pitfall in not ordering your workflow as suggested: - "Piece Du Jour" has 4 total staves, A, B, C and D - system one shows staves A, B and D when optimized - system two shows staves A, C and D when optimized - if any measures are moved from system one to system two (by re-spacing or forcing) those moved measures will adhere to system two's optimization and show staves A, C and D. The music in the moved measures from staff B would be hidden. AFAIK the only way to get things the way they should be at this stage is to first remove all existing optimization and then re-optimize. So you might as well wait to optimize in the first place. Don Hart on 6/15/06 9:20 PM, Aaron Sherber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> The problem is that when I try to delete any measures on page one, it >> moves 2 of the 4 staves on page 2 to a new page 3 + pushes 1 or 2 >> systems to the next page throughout the piece, which, of course, ruins >> the optimum page turn setup. Further, I can find no way to move the >> orphaned 2 staves ahead so they can be part of the original 4 staves. >> What am I doing wrong here? > > Well, you might try turning off Edit | Automatic Update Layout. That > will prevent Finale from doing anything with the layout behind your > back. To move things onto a new page (looking at the second part of > your paragraph), select the Page Layout tool, right-click on a > system, and choose Insert Page Break. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
