I actually have a QuicKey setup to do just that via TGTools (you have to have "option" held down to involve a plug-in without the dialog box) but you do have to go in and reconfigure it to close up or widen staves. You can also set something up via the redone "Respace Staves" dialog box under the staff menu but I've had some inconsistancies that I have not been able to track down and it's not as fast as TGTools.
Steve On 3/22/12 12:38 PM, "J D Thomas" <j...@thomastudios.com> wrote: >A thought along these lines might be to have a user-defined key combo >that would move items (like staves) a larger amount away from what we can >now set in Document Options. What I was thinking was similar to what you >can do in Adobe Illustrator, where if you hold down the Command key, any >selected item would more 10 pixels, or any other user-defined amount. I >find I use that a ton in AI. > >I've been wrestling with exactly the same staff issues Robert mentions. >I'm going thru an enormous old Finale file in Fin2K11 (over 1800 >measures) for a client, and this new staff scenario is wreaking have with >the old optimization feature. > >J D Thomas >ThomaStudios > >On Mar 22, 2012, at 10:30 AM, Fiskum, Steve wrote: > >> Yes! This is the biggest irritation with the new system. The amount of >> concentration and precision needed in just grabbing a staff can be very >> frustrating. It would be better if the system was tweaked just a bit to >> allow a bigger area for us to click-and-drag so that it is not so easy >>to >> move ALL systems on all pages. You really need to make sure you click on >> the handle and do not accidentally click it twice because you will >>easily >> move the systems on all pages. This was the first thing that was hard to >> get used to for me especially since I usually work while viewing a >>single >> page at a time. It would be great if we had a different highlight color >>so >> we would know which part of the staff tool's staff moving function was >>ON. >> >> Cheers, >> Steve >> >> >> On 3/22/12 12:07 PM, "Robert Patterson" <rob...@robertgpatterson.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Something that is turning into a bother is that I keep accidentally >>> destroying all my individual vertical staff positioning. I think it may >>> because it is so easy to select all systems rather than just one when >>> hiding a staff. I'm not sure but it is really annoying. >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Jari Williamsson < >>> jari.williams...@mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2012-03-22 17:13, Aaron Sherber wrote: >>>>> On 3/22/2012 11:36 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: >>>>>> One of the things that has changed is how one moves staves >>>> vertically in >>>>>> page view. dragging a staff now drags all staves beneath it. I like >>>> the >>>>>> change, but I am wondering how to only drag that staff without >>>> dragging >>>> any >>>>>> others. >>>>> >>>>> It's Alt+drag in Windows. >>>> >>>> If it's any help to find how to do it on the Mac, it's the same key >>>>that >>>> is used to toggle the behavior of attachment points (while dragging >>>> expressions for example). >>>> >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> >>>> Jari Williamsson >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 > > >_______________________________________________ >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
