See, now there's a solution that hadn't occurred to me.
(See below)
As usual, a simple enough one - lateral thinking.
Thank you John, I will try this.
Chuck
On Dec 27, 2006, at 5:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 12/27/06 7:30:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The problem is that things don't work the way one might imagine if
you leave that "Break Multi-measure Rest" box unchecked. If you have
a 6 m. rest with an expression attached to the last measure, the
program only accommodates (shows) expressions attached to the first
measure of the mm rest, so anything at the end does not show. There
are workarounds, but they seem kludgy and fussy to me - requiring
multiple operations. I was wondering if anyone had come up with
anything elegant.
Maybe it's one of those things that is not easily solved, but I been
surprised by my own blindness and the insights of others in the past,
so I have reason to hope.
Chuck
Hi Chuck - I know what you mean and feel your pain. Remember the
days when
there really weren't options to avoid having expressions swallowed
up by mm
rests?
Regarding your issue - I always pay close attention when there are
roadmap
instructions like "to Coda", etc. so they make it into the parts
regardless of
the material. In your situation, I find it useful to attach the
expression (btw
- if it was repeat text, I think it would split out the MM rest
anyway) to
the measure FOLLOWING the actual "to coda" jump (which is never
part of a MM
rest). The only time this doesn't work right is if there is a page
break at that
spot. This way it doesn't interfere with the MM rest and never gets
buried.
You can set the text positioning to right align on the left barline
and it even
places it properly (mostly).
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