Re: [Finale] Editing ossia measures

2002-09-24 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 4:15 PM 09/24/02, Michael Cook wrote: >I don't think the ossia tool has improved since the old days. >Nonetheless, I still use it for doing exactly what it's designed to >do: creating a one-measure ossia above a staff, in the margin or at >the bottom of the page. [...] > >It may not be "intuit

Re: [Finale] Editing ossia measures

2002-09-24 Thread Harold Owen
Mark Lew writes: >Going off an a tangent, may I ask: What good reason is there to use the >ossia tool instead of a separate staff? > >I haven't tried the ossia tool in at least three years. When I did try it, >I remember concluding that it was very clumsy and many things I wanted to >do were eit

Re: [Finale] Editing ossia measures

2002-09-24 Thread Michael Cook
I don't think the ossia tool has improved since the old days. Nonetheless, I still use it for doing exactly what it's designed to do: creating a one-measure ossia above a staff, in the margin or at the bottom of the page. It's possible to master these situations without the ossia tool, using s

Re: [Finale] Editing ossia measures

2002-09-23 Thread Mark D. Lew
Going off an a tangent, may I ask: What good reason is there to use the ossia tool instead of a separate staff? I haven't tried the ossia tool in at least three years. When I did try it, I remember concluding that it was very clumsy and many things I wanted to do were either difficult or impossi

Re: [Finale] Editing ossia measures

2002-09-23 Thread Michael Cook
At 18:14 +0100 23/09/2002, Michael Lawlor wrote: >(Windows 2002) >I have added an ossia measure to an extracted part. I am now at a loss to >figure out how to change the contents of the ossia measure (to provide a >simpler passage). I can find no way to access the ossia measure itself and >if I

[Finale] Editing ossia measures

2002-09-23 Thread Michael Lawlor
(Windows 2002) I have added an ossia measure to an extracted part. I am now at a loss to figure out how to change the contents of the ossia measure (to provide a simpler passage). I can find no way to access the ossia measure itself and if I change the contents of the original measure, it update