Not sure about the duplicate systems (I would have thought Update Layout was the solution), but I believe the "carriage return" symbol appears when, in the Measure Attributes dialog for one particular measure, the box "Begin a New Staff System" is checked.
Doug On Mar 3, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Richard Yates wrote: > I think I've seen this but don't quite remember what was going on. Is there > a page break inserted in the layout in the middle of the system? > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu >> [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Fiedler >> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 9:38 AM >> To: finale@shsu.edu >> Subject: [Finale] Layout misbehavior >> >> Ok, I haven't run across this one before: >> I have a long piece with 8 staves per system and, until >> today, two systems fit well on one page. Now, suddenly, the >> systems are arranged in Page View as follows: >> 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | etc. >> 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | >> that is, each system appears _twice, once at the bottom, once >> at the top of the next page. In "Scroll View" everything is >> fine, by the way, with no duplications of any kind. >> "Update Layout" does nothing (my first thought) and neither >> does "Data Check". In my desperation I finally exported the >> file via Music XML and imported it again. The result was a >> document with a _single_ system per page >> 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | >> and a strange symbol in the upper left corner which looks >> like the old carriage return sign: |_> In the new file I >> can't get two systems onto one page, although there's enough >> room. It would seem that this is being prevented by the >> "carriage return" symbol. >> Can anybody help me with this? >> Eric >> >> ************************************************ >> Habsburger Verlag Frankfurt (Dr. Fiedler) >> www.habsburgerverlag.de eric.f.fied...@t-online.de >> e.fied...@em.uni-frankfurt.de >> ************************************************ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
