On 16 Oct 2006 at 7:50, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 16.10.2006 David W. Fenton wrote: > > It would be nice, though, if some professional engraving standards > > were somehow built into Finale so that it could tell you if you've > > exceeded standard modern engraving density. > > I don't think there is such a thing. I have a Henle part here, where > one page is extremely tightly spaced, tighter than anything I have > ever done...
Surely you've seen the tight spacing of André's engraving, which would be completely unacceptable in modern engraving. My bet is that André routinely exceeded the tightness of the Henle part you're looking at. > I think this is another case where good engraving always needs a good > eye, too, and a computer can only go some of the way... But it's quite clear that there are loose standards, and the part you're looking at violates them. I didn't suggest that such a thing be implemented in a way that prevents exceeding it (as Score does, if I'm not mistaken). I suggested that Finale provide information about problems that come from tight spacing that exceeds professional standards. This could be part of a house style feature, were Finale to have that implemented in a future version. And, ideally, the user could adjust the thresholds to personal taste, using scaling values. I'd love to have something like that, because I routinely end up with tighter spacing onscreen than looks good when printed, because of the nature of the difference between the two views of the notation. If the computer could do that evaluation for me and warn me when I exceed it, that would be a great help. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
