I created them with Keyboard Maestro on a Mac. Basically I select an expression and run the macro to delete it and then deal with the ensuing dialogs that tell me the expression is being used, and I select an existing one to replace it. It’s not the greatest, but it does reduce quite a bit of the dialog clicking that goes with this operation.
J D Thomas ThomaStudios > On Oct 4, 2019, at 9:46 AM, Dr. Ben @ Ayotte Music <ayottemu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > This is a terribly vexing problem; worse, by far, than the bloated lyric > window. What sort of macros do you use, JD? > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019, 12:41 PM J D Thomas <j...@thomastudios.com> wrote: > >> Good tip Jef. I am in the habit of whenever I copy/paste from another >> file, I immediately go into the Expression dialog and delete the latest >> dupes. I even have macros that automate the process somewhat to reduce the >> tedium of this operation. I repeat the same process with articulations. >> It’s an obscene PITA, but I do it to keep the libraries from becoming >> bloated. I worked on an opera several years ago that had 1800 measures in >> the first act and 1600 in the second. The client kept making edits that >> were best resolved via C/P. The libraries were a complete cluster-f*** and >> I spent WAY TOO MUCH TIME cleaning things up. So your tip would help >> matter some. >> >> Hopefully someone can help with this. I don’t ever see MM addressing this >> issue. Sigh. >> >> J D Thomas >> ThomaStudios >> >> >>> On Oct 4, 2019, at 9:15 AM, SN jef chippewa < >> shirl...@newmusicnotation.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> don't know of any way to do this as you would like it, but i usually >> edit the object to make it 72 or 120 point (depending on the percentage >> reduction of the systems) and flip through the score pages to locate >> instances. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> neueweise -- fonts for new music (and traditional) notation >>> http://newmusicnotation.com/fonts.html >>> >>> shirling & neueweise | http://newmusicnotation.com >>> new music notation + arts management + translation >>> [FB] http://facebook.com/neueweise | [TW] http://twitter.com/neueweise >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >>> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >>> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
