On Thu Jan 7, at ThursdayJan 7 6:17 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Hi all,
Now that TGTools is available for Fin2010, I've finally switched
over from Fin2008.
I am, overall, very happy with Fin2010 (the ability to right-
justify non-multimeasure rest measure numbers is great) but there
is one very serious annoyance:
In Fin2008, Cmd-X (cut) and the Clear key used to leave Staff
Styles alone. Now it removes them. This is a HUGE drag on my
productivity, because I use staff styles to handle all of my wind
doubles -- and my writing includes a LOT of wind doubles. Now,
every time I change my mind and use Cmd-X or Clear to remove music
from, e.g., the Wind 1 staff, then enter something else, I have to
go back and re-apply the staff style for whatever instrument Wind 1
happens to be playing at that moment (flute, alto flute, soprano
sax -- you get the idea). I also have to be much more methodical
than ever before about checking the staff styles on EVERY wind part
to make sure they did not get inadvertently deleted -- before I
could just select a region, hit the metatool for the Bass Clarinet
staff style, and be confident that all of the music in that region
would be correctly transposed for bass clarinet, no matter what
kind of editing I was doing. Now I have to double-check and triple-
check everything.
How is everyone else dealing with this problem? It is currently a
huge source of frustration, and is slowing me down like you would
not believe.
Cheers,
- DJA
Yeah, it slows me down quite a bit too. I just make sure to put the
Staff Styles for transposition in AFTER I have finished editing. One
more step. Sigh.
I haven't figured out how to accomplish the Reset Staff Styles to
Score that I used to have to do all the time in 2009. Apparently this
behaviour is changed now, but I still end up with wrong staff styles
in my parts, and I haven't found the Reset menu item yet.
And the damned 9 key in Speedy STILL doesn't do what it should 100%.
I still get notes flipping that shouldn't in the wrong places.
There's ANOTHER step I have to go through in the proofreading, and I
have precious little time for that nonsense.
Christopher
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