Re: [Finale] Plugin idea/request

2002-11-13 Thread J.G.
On 11 Nov 2002 at 15:14, Mark D. Lew wrote: I'm not sure if it's available to the public, but I know that Recordare has a routine that will display all sorts of detailed statistics about which notes are used in a piece, calculated from the MusicXML data. If you're on a Windows version of

[Finale] Plugin idea/request

2002-11-11 Thread J.G.
Is there any plugin available that will create a handbells bells used chart? That being a grand staff with noteheads (no stems) listing melodically the pitches (incl. separate entries for accidentals) that are present in a piece of music with all notes below Db5 (C5=Middle C) in the bass clef,

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:38 AM 10/23/02, Jari Williamsson wrote: Layout Manager in Forza! will do that, although it will give you a bit more options regarding measure distribution and page breaks than this. I'll see if I can put a draft of this specific feature in the next couple of betas. That sounds fantastic,

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-23 Thread Rick Neal
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 18:26:55 -0400 Aaron Sherber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd love to be able to select all of the measures on the page and distribute them optimally in one pass. This would also help at the ends of pieces. I find that very often the last line of a part has just a

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:55 AM 10/23/02, Rick Neal wrote: Have you tried TGTools: Layout - Fit Measures - specify the number of systems you want to distribute the highlighted measures into? This is close, but it doesn't quite do what I'm looking for. For example, I've got a page of music with 5 systems, and one

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-23 Thread Barbara Touburg
TGTools Fit Music does this. Just select the music that you want to be on the page, count the systems, and let TGTools redistribute the music. Works fine for me. Aaron Sherber schreef: When I extract parts from a score and then go to tweak each part, I seem to spend much of my time in

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:54 AM 10/23/02, Barbara Touburg wrote: TGTools Fit Music does this. Just select the music that you want to be on the page, count the systems, and let TGTools redistribute the music. Works fine for me. I had some problems (detailed in another post) in getting this to work as I would like.

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:01 AM 10/23/02, Rick Neal wrote: I just now had to do this with a page with 8 staff systems and one measure on the next page. When I used TGTools it redistributed the entire page NOT just cramming the extra measure into the last system. No system looks any more crowded than another. After my

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea and TGTools

2002-10-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
Okay, I've done some other spot tests, and it seems that in most cases TGTools Fit Measures does do what I'm looking for. In a few cases, though, it does just cram the extra measure into the previous system without reflowing anything. I guess that its internal algorithm might decide that this

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-23 Thread Jane Frasier
Maybe I missed something here, but have you unlocked your systems and then re-spaced? Jane On 10/23/02 11:22 AM, Aaron Sherber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:01 AM 10/23/02, Rick Neal wrote: I just now had to do this with a page with 8 staff systems and one measure on the next page. When I

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-23 Thread David H. Bailey
No, I think she means BEFORE running TGTools. Aaron Sherber wrote: At 01:42 PM 10/23/02, Jane Frasier wrote: Maybe I missed something here, but have you unlocked your systems and then re-spaced? Do you mean after running TGTools? That just returns the systems to the state they were in

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:25 PM 10/23/02, David H. Bailey wrote: No, I think she means BEFORE running TGTools. Okay -- well then, yes, I did. Unless I'm misunderstanding the question. If the suggestion was that I select those measures and apply a different spacing algorithm to them to get them to fit, then I

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-23 Thread Mark D. Lew
Unless I'm misunderstanding the question. If the suggestion was that I select those measures and apply a different spacing algorithm to them to get them to fit, then I didn't do that. And I would say that changing spacing mid-piece (and having to remember to change it back again if needed) is far

[Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
When I extract parts from a score and then go to tweak each part, I seem to spend much of my time in scenarios like this: Right-hand page has no rests on it, but there's a nice long rest 3 bars into the next page. So I use Mass Mover to nudge those three bars into the previous line, which

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-22 Thread helgesen
I'm with you Aaron! Great idea! Keith in OZ. - Original Message - From: Aaron Sherber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 8:26 AM Subject: [Finale] Plugin idea When I extract parts from a score and then go to tweak each part, I seem to spend much

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-22 Thread Jari Williamsson
Aaron Sherber writes: I'd love to see a plugin that helps out with this. In particular, after I move the first group of measures so that the page break falls at the right place, I'd love to be able to select all of the measures on the page and distribute them optimally in one pass. Layout