Excellent Darcy (and Robert). This does make the situation far more viable for my situation here.
Thank you! J D Thomas ThomaStudios On Jan 3, 2013, at 9:45 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > Hi JD, > > When a cue is only on a partial system, you want to apply Blank Notation With > Rests (applied to the score only). This should give you what you want. > > My process is to first hide all cues in the score using Blank Notation With > Rests, then additionally collapse if/where needed. > > Cheers, > > - DJA > ----- > WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org > > On Jan 3, 2013, at 12:34 PM, J D Thomas <j...@thomastudios.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Robert. That Collapse style is what I was trying to recall since >> I've never used it before. Alas, none of the combinations I tried in the >> score really worked to my satisfaction. Hide and collapse in score only was >> close, but when I have situations where a cue is in a measure that's the >> first measure or two of a system, it creates a very unwanted effect. >> Relaying out the score is not an option I want to explore. >> >> So I'm left with maintaining two scores. You'd think MM would have been on >> this by now. What, we've had linked parts for 5+ years now? >> >> J D Thomas >> ThomaStudios >> >> >> >> On Jan 2, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: >> >>> It is possible to make it work, but essentially all the restrictions in >>> Fin07-11 apply to Fin12 as well. To force the staves with cues not to show >>> in the score use the "Force Hide (Collapse)" staff style. >>> >>> Of course, as in Fin07-11, you still have the problem that special tools >>> mods are not unlinkable, which affects most irritatingly ties and grace >>> note positioning. Also, clef changes in the cues require some ingenuity. >>> But if you can live with the special tools restriction, the clefs can be >>> surmounted. >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:32 PM, J D Thomas <j...@thomastudios.com> wrote: >>> >>>> OK. This is the first score I've done now in Finale Mac 2012 where I have >>>> had to use cues, and I've added cue notes to the score and laid out all the >>>> parts. Back in the old days of 2007 and probably 2011, I have always had >>>> to maintain two separate copies of the score, one for the final score and >>>> one for the parts since the cue notes in layers 3 and 4 annihilate my score >>>> layout. >>>> >>>> Is this still the preferred methodology for Finale 2012, or is there some >>>> settings and / or plugins that create a viable workaround? >>>> >>>> >>>> *************************** >>>> J D Thomas >>>> ThomaStudios >>>> West Linn OR >>>> www.thomastudios.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> >> *************************** >> J D Thomas >> ThomaStudios >> West Linn OR >> www.thomastudios.com >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 *************************** J D Thomas ThomaStudios West Linn OR www.thomastudios.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
