On 26.02.2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone on this list come up with any clear advantages to even having a Linked Parts feature? I understand if you make some revisions (accidentals, etc.) in the score it updates the parts behind the scenes, but if you insert or delete measures, change endings & repeats, or make any extensive changes, how does that prevent you from having to open the parts and re-do the layouts? And if you do have to open all of them and revise, why not just create a new set of parts (via extraction)? I already missed one performance deadline (the first in failure to deliver in 30 years of copying) because of my confusion using 2K7 as far as the Parts Extraction/Linked Parts feature, and I still have yet to make the time to sit down and learn it, so that may be my loss. But, so far, it seems like the Linked Parts feature is causing more time consuming delays and mishaps than without. At least when I've done parts the "old fashioned way", the task is predictable and reliable, even though it might be a little more time consuming.
Dear Vern or Graham, or whatever your name is (since you never sign your posts),
first of all, any chance you could put some structure into your emails? This one wasn't too bad, but you have sent others which were easily several pages long, yet all in one paragraph. I simply refuse to read such mails, I find them un-managable.
Now concerning linked parts: I do find linked parts useful, even with all the limitations. I use them typically for two things:
1) simple music, without hairpins. Typically baroque music. They work well as long as one doesn't touch the limitations.
2) pre-publication parts: I typically still work on the score when I need a preliminary set of parts printed, for a quick run through or similar. Before linked parts I had to extract, do some basic layout. Then, when work on the score went on, these preliminary parts became useless, all my work on the layout lost. I had to trash them and redo them. Now with linked parts I can do some work on the layout, then go back to the score, yet the work on the layout is not lost when I later return to the parts. That's a great time saver.
As soon as hairpins are present linked parts don't work so well any more. I will then prepare a score-score and a parts-score. This is still miles better than separate files for each part, though.
Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
