Interesting discussions about Finale's future; this is obviously topics that engages people. I am tempted to join; shortly I agree to those who say that Finale typically not needs to be able to do more fancy audio things (there are other good tools and they are numerous); neither to have more intelligence in recognizing harmonics and things like that. A good arranger or composer knows the harmonics by heart. What is needed is more editorial help in certain areas...which brings me in to that I got no comment on my last question(s).
Perhaps the answer is "you need to redo your page layout everytime you add a new part", then please confirm this. If not, I would really appreciate some tips & tricks in this subject. Original question below. Thanks /DT ================================= Hi again folks, I have a question that I think is a bit too low level for this list; but I couldn't find this info in the manual... I have a page layout for my parts that has emerged over some years and that I am very satisfied with; and with design I do mainly think about page margins, system margins, number of systems per page etc. When I need to add a new part (as a new stave in the score, followed by "Manage parts | New part", the layout is defaulted I think. Anyway it really doesn't match what I want. Yesterday I spent some time restoring a new part by all the quite tricky page layout tools, but it took a while and the effect of changes are not always obvious; after a while I succeeded. Now I need to do the same thing with another score and I don't want to spend the time again "restoring the settings" for the new part. So my question is actually two-fold 1) What is the best way to create a new part in a given score that adapts to an existing part from the design perspective? 2) Is there any good way to copy a given part design to another part after it has been created? Thanks /DT ================================= _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
