I envision a fusion between the performance of measure-attached Expressions and note-attached expressions. A note-attached expression would retain its vertical placement from the existing technology. However, its horizontal placement would be calculated on-the-fly according to the given width of the measure. In other words, the horizontal placement value would be dynamic, as are measure-attached expressions now, and the vertical placement would be static, just as the note-attached expressions are.
In this way, expressions which are horizontally far off of the notehead would be guaranteed to look good in both score and in the resulting parts, regardless of layout changes. An example of this is a whole note with a forte marking followed by a measure-attached decrescendo marking followed by a piano marking at the very end of the measure. In the present configuration it just takes too long to apply the measure-attached expression what with all the instrument lists, dialogues, etc. In other words, I would like the Measure Horizontal Alignment options (which are wonderful!) added to the present note-attached Horizontal Alignment options (also wonderful!) in order to achieve "hold-one-key---click" final placement solutions for ALL possible text expression locations. Liudas _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
