On 11/25/06, Chuck Israels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Me too, and it is frustrating. Seems to me there are two choices: wait for a maintenance update in the hope that these matters are addressed, or extract parts the old way and lose the advantages of the linked parts (not so much of an advantage to me, at this point).
On the contrary, I'm finding many shades of gray between these two options. Two that come to mind are: making a separate parts-only file that contains all the parts. This is distinctly preferable to a separate file per part, and there is zero chance of losing your current work. Freed from the need to worry about score view, you can edit the beam angles (and anything else you need to) in the part. It is probably better to split the combined staves into separate staves first though. Another option that I sometimes use is to make duplicate staves rather duplicating an entire file. This is effective if only a few staves need to be different in score and part. An example is for transposing instruments with a C score. If, e.g., only 2 out of 5 staves transpose, I think it is better to make duplicates of the 2 transposing staves. The parts reference the transposed staves while those staves are optimized out of the score. In the case of combined parts, if only a few parts share a staff in the score, might it not make sense to add duplicate staves for those exceptions and have the rest of the parts benefit from true linking? I do not share David Bailey's pessimism about future enhancements to linked parts. Without knowing much specifially about how Finale implements them, I think his speculation about what they need to do coincides fairly closely with what they in fact did do. If MM decides it is a priority, I believe they are in a position to provide (fairly painlessly) unlinkable beam angles, note positoning, and accidental placement, all of which are essential for achieving anything close to the real goal. I would be quite surprised if these were added in a Fin07 maintenance release, however. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
