Hi Christopher,
Lets see if I remember how this works. You select the whole window,
hit delete and Finale deletes those that are unused. The ones that
are in use remain in the window and show up one at a time, in order,
so that you can choose to replace them. I'm going to try it before
sending this, so that I can be sure I am giving the correct scenario.
Well I just tried it, and here's what happens. Select the whole
window, hit delete and Finale will delete the unused articulations,
leaving only the used ones in the window. Then you click quickly
through the cancel button - as often as necessary, (you have to do
this as many times as there are still used artics in the window in
order to get to the next step where you identify them individually and
replace them) leaving only the articulations used in the score in the
window. All this does is make slightly quicker work of going through
the selection process and allows the individual step by step
replacement to be uninterrupted by individually eliminating the unused
articulations, one by one. I realize that this is not a big help, far
from a big work flow changing revelation, but it does seem to save me
a small part of the irritation inherent in the process.
Chuck
On Feb 17, 2008, at 5:36 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
Chuck,
Yes, but that is my problem. How do I know which articulation is the
conflicting one? I might end up changing all the stacattos for
fermatas!
Christopher
On Feb 16, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
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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