On 11 Dec 2007 at 19:37, shirling & neueweise wrote: [quoting me:] > >I used to do that, but now I'm more often using START NEW SYSTEM in > >measure properties, instead. The drawback on that is that it doesn't > >get cleared when making parts. > > i don't really see the point, seems like more work and a much more > inflexible result. but if you really want to do it that way, i guess > you could select all and deselect the start new measure checkbox. > should work. of course, you lose ALL "new system" settings...
The reason is because it has an effect on only one system, whereas locking a system via moving measures with the arrow keys locks *two* systems (yes, you can select the measures and lock those by themselves without it locking the adjacent system, but that's more work). What I want is natural flow for updates everywhere but in the places where I've said to start a new system. Locking systems works best when you're putting *more* measures in a single system than Finale thinks should be there, and I admit that starting a new system won't accomplish that at all. But I'm more and more concluding that Finale is almost always correct when it won't stuff those measures into a single system (though I had an exception yesterday with some music with lyrics in 3/1 that was really way too widely spaced than it should have been so that I had to manually lock the systems to get more measures per system than the default). For my purposes, START A NEW SYSTEM (parts and score) and START A NEW SYSTEM (parts OR score) would be great options. -- 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
