At 02:56 PM 8/10/2006, Lee Actor wrote:
>Hmm, doesn't producing parts from a copy of the score negate the main
>potential advantage of linked parts, namely that changes made after parts
>are produced only have to be made in one place, not two (or even three)?
The main *potential* advantage, yes. But there are still some
advantages here. (See below.)
>My current method (Fin 2004) is to extract parts from a copy of the
score, and
>I have a hard time imagining adding cues to parts without this intermediate
>step, even with the linked parts feature.
It is possible to do everything (score, cue notes, parts) in one
file, no additional steps. But I think many people doing advanced
work will not find this sufficient, and will do as Robert suggests --
one file for the score, and a copy file to which cue notes and so
forth can be added, used for generating parts. So now instead of a
score file, a 'parts score' file, and several parts files, you have
only two files (score and parts score). Wrong notes are now changed
in only 2 places, not 3 -- a 33% improvement! <g> And if there are
global things you want to change in your parts, you just change them
once, in the parts score, and don't need to then re-generate parts
(losing other edits in the process).
Aaron.
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