[Finale] Fwd: Simple question on page layout

2013-09-17 Thread Dan Tillberg
Interesting discussions about Finale's future; this is obviously topics that engages people. I am tempted to join; shortly I agree to those who say that Finale typically not needs to be able to do more fancy audio things (there are other good tools and they are numerous); neither to have more

Re: [Finale] Fwd: Simple question on page layout

2013-09-17 Thread Steve Parker
I don't think there is any way without redoing. I didn't answer before because I was hoping someone might know better.. :-( Steve P. On 17 Sep 2013, at 09:52, Dan Tillberg dan.h.tillb...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting discussions about Finale's future; this is obviously topics that engages

Re: [Finale] Fwd: Simple question on page layout

2013-09-17 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2013-09-17 10:52, Dan Tillberg wrote: 1) What is the best way to create a new part in a given score that adapts to an existing part from the design perspective? When you create a new part (or an additional page in an existing part), it's based on the Page Format for Parts settings. Make

Re: [Finale] Fwd: Simple question on page layout

2013-09-17 Thread Dan Tillberg
Page format for parts, great, will take a look. Could find anything about setting a nominal number of systems per page, e. g. 8 on the first page and 9 for subsequent pages. This is my problem right now and I know that it is possible to fix with some patience but then I have had problems with

Re: [Finale] Fwd: Simple question on page layout

2013-09-17 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2013-09-17 14:26, Dan Tillberg wrote: Page format for parts, great, will take a look. Could find anything about setting a nominal number of systems per page, e. g. 8 on the first page and 9 for subsequent pages. This is my problem right now and I know that it is possible to fix with some

Re: [Finale] Fwd: Simple question on page layout

2013-09-17 Thread Fiskum, Steve
Hello Jari, Dan's experience is the only reason I do not use JW Copy Part Layout. When I contracted Tobias to write his plugin to do this it was important to have two options. One, to copy the layout systems AND the number of measures per system. Two, just copy the systems and NOT the number

Re: [Finale] Fwd: Simple question on page layout

2013-09-17 Thread Fiskum, Steve
Jari, it's not that simple. I may make changes to the systems that work for all layouts that you cannot set globally which is the reason TGTools transfer works in this situation. I've used it in every job since it's inception but the initial reason I asked for it was that every marching band

Re: [Finale] Fwd: Simple question on page layout

2013-09-17 Thread Fiskum, Steve
Great. I'll take a look. Thanks, Steve On 9/17/13 1:03 PM, Jari Williamsson jari.williams...@mailbox.swipnet.se wrote: On 2013-09-17 14:39, Fiskum, Steve wrote: Could you please add this to you plugin before TGTools is obsolete? You are in the JW Lua list as well, I believe? I just posted a

Re: [Finale] Fwd: Simple question on page layout

2013-09-17 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2013-09-17 14:39, Fiskum, Steve wrote: Could you please add this to you plugin before TGTools is obsolete? You are in the JW Lua list as well, I believe? I just posted a script that'll work in 0.05 there. Best regards, Jari Williamsson ___