Re: [Finale] Shift system margins?

2014-04-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Robert, Thanks! I think I'll try your method another time on something simpler… this is a 14-movement piece for 2 orchestras using a lot of unconventional notation, with everything (linked parts and score) residing in the same document. It's VERY easy to screw up the score layout even in the

Re: [Finale] Shift system margins?

2014-04-26 Thread Robert Patterson
TGTools Joing Staff Systems does a fairly good job, but it fails to pick expression (and maybe also lyric) baseline changes. Another technique you could try is to insert an empty measure in the system you want to delete.. Force all the other measures onto the systems you want to keep and use delete

Re: [Finale] Shift system margins?

2014-04-26 Thread Ryan Beard
TGTools Join Staff Systems. Sent from my iPad > On Apr 26, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Chuck Israels wrote: > > Is this something JW Copy layout can do? You can select a group of measures > and apply the layout to target measures. Will this work for you? > > >> On Apr 26, 2014, at 10:57 AM, Darcy

Re: [Finale] Shift system margins?

2014-04-26 Thread Chuck Israels
Is this something JW Copy layout can do? You can select a group of measures and apply the layout to target measures. Will this work for you? On Apr 26, 2014, at 10:57 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > Hi there, > > This is a question I probably should know the answer to, but don't: > > Surely

[Finale] Shift system margins?

2014-04-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi there, This is a question I probably should know the answer to, but don't: Surely there is some way — plugin-based or otherwise — to shift system margin settings from one group of staves to another? For instance, let's say I'm consolidating system 1-2 into a single system, and so I would li