Hi Christopher,
I don't know a way to speed this up by much, but if you select the
entire window of articulations, Finale will give you the message for
each conflicting articulation in turn while deleting those that are
not in use. This only saves you the irritation of selecting each
individual articulation, but you still have to do it window by window,
and if a large library is loaded, it's a time consuming operation. I
do this myself as I update older files to agree with my present
standards.
Sympathetically,
Chuck
On Feb 16, 2008, at 5:40 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
Does this drive anyone else nuts?
FinMac2008a, but it has worked this way for as long as I can remember:
I get a file from someone who doesn't have a clue and I have to
clean it up. He has done some boneheaded thing with his articulation
placements, or I don't like the font (or don't own it!) and I have
to load a library of my own articulations and replace his.
Now, what I would LOVE to do is to select all of his articulations
in the Articulation Selection Dialogue Box and hit Delete. But when
the dialogue box comes up, saying "that articulation is in use in
the score, do you want to replace it?" I have NO IDEA which one
Finale is referring to! So I have to select and delete each one, one
at a time, replacing it in turn with one of mine.
Would it be so hard to have a representation of the articulation
slot that FInale is referring to? I waste SO much time with this,
and it is the same thing with chord suffixes. In a jazz chart there
can be thirty or forty different suffixes in use, and I have to comb
through and replace EACH ONE, one at a time.
Maybe someone knows of something that can help me out, too.
Christopher
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