On Aug 17, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Dejan Badnjar wrote:
Can you imagine if Finale 2007 had an option to draw hairpins in
the Smart Shape Tool/Tab Slide/Smart Line Designer so that you can
be able to make all instances of dynamic changes (eg. P<mp, mf<f,
f>pp, etc) and display them in a separate menu for selection (with
metatools), applying them as Pedal markings attached to notes. Talk
about consistency and accuracy. In my long experience with
engraving scores this is where you spend most time, and more when
you do the same thing for extracted parts. I have asked Tobias
years ago about this. This should really be easy to implement.
Music Press has similar feature but with separate dynamics and
hairpins.
Yes, great idea! And probably very easy to implement, as you said.
I experimented with creating a Shape expression with P on one end and
F on the other and two hand-drawn lines between. It worked, more or
less, and I could manually stretch it to fit, but I want better
control over the distances between items than this method gives me.
The point of the V tends to change as it is dragged, either
separating or crossing, and the lines increase distance from the P
and F as it grows. A Smart Shape most likely would not have this
problem. Plus it is a mighty pain to create in the Shape Designer, a
primitive tool if I ever saw one.
Christopher
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