Re: [Finale] grace notes in linked parts

2012-03-22 Thread Christopher Smith
When you explode staves, measure-attached smart shapes do not get exploded onto the new staves. I don't know why; they just don't, and never have for as long as I have been using the program. You have to copy them separately after exploding, using the filter and the selection tool copy function.

Re: [Finale] Moving individual staves in a system

2012-03-22 Thread Ryan
I've often found out the hard way that highlighting the entire staff DOES NOT move the entire staff for the whole document. I've had many documents where the staff is only changed for a about 3 or 4 of the subsequent systems. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Fiskum, Steve wrote: > Hello Christop

Re: [Finale] Moving individual staves in a system

2012-03-22 Thread Fiskum, Steve
Hello Christopher "Clicking with the staff tool to the left of the system will highlight the entire staff for the document." IS the problem because it is easy to miss the staff handle and do exactly what you point out when all you want to do is move a specific page's staff. The odd thing about t

Re: [Finale] grace notes in linked parts

2012-03-22 Thread Ryan
No. In this case the hairpins are attached to the correct staff. They did not get exploded properly. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Peter Taylor wrote: > From: "Ryan" > > > Thanks Darcy and Christopher, > > That's what I thought the solution was, but I was hoping that there was > > something m

Re: [Finale] grace notes in linked parts

2012-03-22 Thread Peter Taylor
From: "Ryan" > Thanks Darcy and Christopher, > That's what I thought the solution was, but I was hoping that there was > something more elegant in the newest version. > By the way, why don't measure attached smart shapes (i.e. hairpin > crescendos) get copied onto the exploded staves? Is that a b

Re: [Finale] Moving individual staves in a system

2012-03-22 Thread Young, Chris
Hi All, I just wanted to jump in and hopefully offer some help on this. The new staff spacing system is done on a selection basis, and while it can be difficult to select just the one handle for spacing an individual system, please be aware that you can also simply select the region you'd like

Re: [Finale] Moving individual staves in a system

2012-03-22 Thread Fiskum, Steve
I actually have a QuicKey setup to do just that via TGTools (you have to have "option" held down to involve a plug-in without the dialog box) but you do have to go in and reconfigure it to close up or widen staves. You can also set something up via the redone "Respace Staves" dialog box under the s

Re: [Finale] Moving individual staves in a system

2012-03-22 Thread J D Thomas
A thought along these lines might be to have a user-defined key combo that would move items (like staves) a larger amount away from what we can now set in Document Options. What I was thinking was similar to what you can do in Adobe Illustrator, where if you hold down the Command key, any selec

Re: [Finale] Moving individual staves in a system

2012-03-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
I emphatically agree, and it's something I've complained about repeatedly to MM. More voices on this couldn't hurt! It's *way* too easy to destroy all of your vertical spacing without realizing it, because, when you are viewing one page at a time, there is no visual feedback to differentiate bet

Re: [Finale] Moving individual staves in a system

2012-03-22 Thread Fiskum, Steve
Yes! This is the biggest irritation with the new system. The amount of concentration and precision needed in just grabbing a staff can be very frustrating. It would be better if the system was tweaked just a bit to allow a bigger area for us to click-and-drag so that it is not so easy to move ALL s

Re: [Finale] Moving individual staves in a system

2012-03-22 Thread Robert Patterson
Something that is turning into a bother is that I keep accidentally destroying all my individual vertical staff positioning. I think it may because it is so easy to select all systems rather than just one when hiding a staff. I'm not sure but it is really annoying. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:23 AM

Re: [Finale] Moving individual staves in a system

2012-03-22 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2012-03-22 17:13, Aaron Sherber wrote: > On 3/22/2012 11:36 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: >> One of the things that has changed is how one moves staves vertically in >> page view. dragging a staff now drags all staves beneath it. I like the >> change, but I am wondering how to only drag that staff

Re: [Finale] Moving individual staves in a system

2012-03-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 3/22/2012 12:28 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > Thanks, all. What is the equivalent of "re-optimize"? I am reworking an old > score, and after I delete material from staves they remain in the system. Select the staff you want to hide, right-click, and choose Hide Empty Staves (or pick this from

Re: [Finale] grace notes in linked parts

2012-03-22 Thread Ryan
Thanks Darcy and Christopher, That's what I thought the solution was, but I was hoping that there was something more elegant in the newest version. By the way, why don't measure attached smart shapes (i.e. hairpin crescendos) get copied onto the exploded staves? Is that a bug or a "feature"? On We

Re: [Finale] Moving individual staves in a system

2012-03-22 Thread Robert Patterson
Thanks, all. What is the equivalent of "re-optimize"? I am reworking an old score, and after I delete material from staves they remain in the system. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Randolph Peters wrote: > Just hold the option key down while you drag (Mac). > > I think this started in Fin11. >

Re: [Finale] Moving individual staves in a system

2012-03-22 Thread Randolph Peters
Just hold the option key down while you drag (Mac). I think this started in Fin11. -Randolph Peters On 2012-03-22, at 10:36 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: > Having spent most of the year till now in plugin land, I have not really > had a chance to do much with Fin12 until now. (My last version was

Re: [Finale] Moving individual staves in a system

2012-03-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 3/22/2012 11:36 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: > One of the things that has changed is how one moves staves vertically in > page view. dragging a staff now drags all staves beneath it. I like the > change, but I am wondering how to only drag that staff without dragging any > others. It's Alt+drag

[Finale] Moving individual staves in a system

2012-03-22 Thread Robert Patterson
Having spent most of the year till now in plugin land, I have not really had a chance to do much with Fin12 until now. (My last version was Fin08.) One of the things that has changed is how one moves staves vertically in page view. dragging a staff now drags all staves beneath it. I like the change