Hi all, I have a workflow question.
The first act of an opera has just arrived, 157 pages, piano-vocal. The composer has taken back the opera from the publisher, and will be re-issuing a corrected version. The original version was published from a hand-inked copy (done in multiple hands) in 1980. Because of existing copies in the field, the composer (a regular client) wants the new edition to match the old one exactly in pagination and measure placement on the pages and systems, numbering, etc. The densest portion of the score has two pianos and five voices, and there are random places with text blocks and white space. I'm not sure how to approach the work process. Were I working from scratch, I'd just use my ordinary sequence of enter, edit, adjust pages, optimize and lock. But to match an existing score, the optimization and locking are already in place, so to speak. Maybe there's a Finale trick for doing this (I'm using 2K6). The process I'm thinking about would add all the measures first, place a dummy note (rather than a 'real' rest, which is indistinguishable from an empty-measure rest) in all the measures that will eventually have content, then jockey the measures along to their proper locations, lock the measures, and optimize the score. Then I'd fill in the musical content. Will this work? Is there a better way? Two more acts will be coming, so I'd like to make this as smooth as possible to get done by year's end. (The composer also wants to make sections not present in the recording with grey brackets, but that's a problem for another time, I think.) Thanks, Dennis -- Please participate in my latest project: http://maltedmedia.com/waam/ My blog: http://maltedmedia.com/bathory/waam-blog.html Composer "buy local" bumpersticker: http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/bumpersticker.jpg http://www.cafepress.com/buy/80570307/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
