A couple things from this Automatic Update Layout discussion: 1) Plug-ins can turn the various automatic layout settings on and off. If you see automatic layout being switched out from under you, see if you can relate this to running a specific plug-in. If so, please report the problem to MakeMusic and/or the plug-in developer.
2) Robert, I had a question regarding your point about plug-ins that needs to determine page layout info not working reliably if AUL is on. Can't your plug-in just do an update layout call first in order to set the page and system information that you need? This is related to Johannes's point that Finale does not completely store page and system layout in the file, but computes them dynamically from information in the file. Many other types of Finale formatting work this way, such as stem direction. Other notation programs work in a similar way in terms of computing formatting information dynamically. This is one reason why our MusicXML translation programs for Finale and Sibelius need to run as plug-ins rather than standalone programs. Best regards, Michael Good Recordare LLC www.recordare.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
