On Mar 20, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Hi Chuck,
This is a known bug. Or it should be. I've reported it more than once.
The only solution is either (A) extraction, or (B), if you want to
keep everything in the same file, explode the voiced staff to
separate, non-printing staves, and make those ones the source for
your parts. Obviously, both solutions result in parts that are no
longer linked to what you see in the score.
Hi Darcy and Christopher (my reliable friends),
Yup, and I am engaged in correspondence with those in charge of the
support staff. This is hardly indicative of good quality control on
the part of the customer support people at MM. I find them friendly
and responsive enough - but that does not make up for the fact that
the level of support expertise has deteriorated as the complexity and
power of Finale has increased. There is no excuse for the support
people not recognizing and copping to a known bug and making me waste
my time following useless leads.
This list is becoming both quicker and more reliable than MM.
Chuck
Cheers,
- Darcy
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djar...@mac.com
Brooklyn, NY
On 20 Mar 2009, at 12:42 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
I have spent about 24 hours wasting time following misdirections
and red herrings from MM's Mac support staff in order to try to
solve a problem with linked parts split from a single staff. When
you specify voicing and split two parts from one staff (Flute 1,
Flute 2, for instance, when the notes are entered in only one staff
in the score), grace note spacing is destroyed and the result is
rendered unintelligible. There is no way to repair the spacing
manually, because special tools will not allow access to the
spacing handles. Does anyone have any ideas about this? MM has
finally admitted that it is a bug (only took them a whole day and
lots of prompting on my part) and suggests extracting the parts.
Of course, I can do that, but I am wondering if there might be
another solution found among all the list experts (where the
collective knowledge seems to exceed that of the MM support staff!).
Thanks,
Chuck
Chuck Israels
230 North Garden Terrace
Bellingham, WA 98225-5836
phone (360) 671-3402
fax (360) 676-6055
www.chuckisraels.com
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