On 11/20/2010 2:53 PM, delius...@aol.com wrote:
Is there a plugin or global setting I can change to fix these to stop having to tweak each and every one?
Sure -- just change the articulation definition. Put a tremolo on a note, right-click and edit the articulation definition, then change the settings until it looks the way you want. Now every tremolo you place in the score will be positioned the same way. To make existing tremolos obey the new positioning, drag enclose a bunch of them with the Articulation tool and hit backspace; this will remove any manual positioning you've done.
Accents are also problematic, especially as soon as you add a second layer in your score. I wish that they didn't make a "global" adjustment on these, but, rather, you could use the "flip" command like you do for slurs to get a bunch of them quickly to the other side of the note rather than dragging or holding down arrow keys. Can anyone point to a better setting or plugin to help this as well?
I'm not exactly sure what problem you're running into, but I find that if my articulations are defined with Auto Note / Stem Side positioning, they generally behave as expected when moving a note or adding a layer.
Finally, in anticipation of what I'm going to have to do very shortly, I need some advice on multiple lines on a part and part extraction.
Since Finale introduced linked parts (2007, I think), it's done auto-explosion of this kind of part automatically -- though not perfectly. Look in the Manage Parts dialog, Part Definition, Voicing. This will let you specify how each line is to be extracted when there are multiple lines on each staff. The other option is TGTools (tgtools.com), which also offers smart explosion of multi-part staves. Neither of these two methods will work absolutely perfectly, but they'll probably get you most of the way there.
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