I agree with Darcy's list of wishes long before playback features, and to them I would add music spacing options by region and part.
BTW: if you are looking for an open framework, there is MuseScore. I haven't been following exactly where it is going lately, but I think it has the potential to leave all the others in the dust, just because of the large number of people that seem to be contributing. I certainly think that any new commercial product will have trouble competing with it. The Steinberg offering, for example, seems to be 100% vaporware. If I had a dollar for every vaporware announcement that never saw the light of day, I would be a rich man. On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Jari Williamsson < jari.williams...@mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote: > On 2013-09-17 14:34, Robert Patterson wrote: > > > Could you explain the process? > > During the projects I've done this year, I've used a system where I've > pasted code from my other my different plug-in sources into an automate > plug-in. That plug-in used a number of control files (in text format) to > set the distances in the cases where there needs to be a correction > compared to the default positioning (taking stem direction, other > artics, slur tips, ledger lines, etc into account). After all > positioning comes spacing (including changing certain types of measures > to specific widths), then alignment and then I make a approximate > calculation of the vertical span of a system, and respace. > > The whole process goes outwards in the layout in one step (starting with > articulation placement, ending with system positioning placement). > > Although the process is automatic, the thing that doesn't work good > enough yet is the pre- and post-spacing, and the system isn't that > flexible (I've more or less just added the editing cases I've needed). > I'm now moving towards a totally script-based solution instead, which is > almost a totally opposite approach, but it's also a much better way to > handle complex tasks such as spacing. > > > 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
