Dejan and jef, thanks very much for the tips dealing with the details of cue staves. I'll try out both of these.
Paul Hayden On Jun 8, 2012, Dejan Badnjar wrote: > I have recently done a piece that had lots of these "cut offs" with clefs and > found that the easiest and most precise way was to add an extra measure > before the clef, hide the barline, apply staff style to the previous measures > before the clef, make the bar that has the clef change small and adjust > everything below accordingly. This way you have total control of the size of > the extended staff lines for the clef. Make the cue clef size to 100% in the > document setting so they all match with starting clefs. On Jun 9, 2012, jef chippewa wrote: > tsk tsk tsk... so much kludging :-) > > set up a shape expression with 5 barlines at your default thickness > extending 96 EVPUs and set up the auto-placement to right aligned, > attached to right measure with H adjustment of 10 (it will work for > double barlines as well) and V positioned to staff reference line. > > staffline lengths before clefs will be consistent. you can adjust H > positioning slightly for treble (or alto, or percussion) clef so the > lines extending to the left of the bass and treble clefs are equal. > > grid is at 12 EVPUs: > http://newmusicnotation.com/TEMPFILES/staff-5line_short.pdf > > this is also very useful in percussion lines, where the staff changes > from 1-line to 5-line staff. > > a different version of this shape expression can be set up for the > end of the system if ever needed. > > set the expression at the top of your symbols category list for super > quick access (2-click measure and hit enter). do NOT apply this > expression using a metatool, otherwise you will have multiple copies > of the expression in your document, and if you need to slightly edit > the length or staffline thicknesses... fun fun fun. > > (no matter how detailled you get in selecting partial measures, the > staffline lengths to the left of the clef will ALWAYS change in the > PT or also in the SC whenever you make changes to the measure > spacing, or change the number of measures frozen in the system where > it appears) Magnolia Music Press <www.paulhayden.com> Voice & Pre-arranged fax: 225-769-9604 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
