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pbustin
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| Posted 3/31/2014 1:34 PM (GMT -6) |   | I tried to insert measure stacks (I would prefer just the piano part, for an introduction, but will settle for all the parts--SAT and piano) on a separate page before the existing SAT-piano score. I don't want to modify the existing distribution of measures, and prefer the existing score to remain intact, with the vocal parts starting at the top of the page. Again, I would like to existing measure distribution to stand while I add an intro on a separate page before it.
As soon as I enter a stack (the intro is 7 measures), it takes up a page, and the parts still begin on the next page, but the first stack has an additional measure at the end, moved from the next stack, and so on through the piece. I tried locking the first stack, but it didn't work. Then I tried locking, inserting, unlocking, locking. I'm not positive I can replicate the steps I took. That worked, but I would think there's an easier way.
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Zuill
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| Posted 3/31/2014 1:51 PM (GMT -6) | | Did you try inserting a System instead of a measure stack?
Zuill
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Mike Rosen
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| Posted 3/31/2014 2:31 PM (GMT -6) | | Another option might be to do the piano page by itself, "print" both sections as PDF, and combine them after the fact.
The "easier" way is to do the piano score at the same time as the rest. Then, do your page layout, hiding extraneous staves as needed.
Mike Rosen
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Zuill
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| Posted 3/31/2014 4:35 PM (GMT -6) | | In this case, working in Scroll View will actually create the problem. Only in Page View can Systems be added. And that is the way to keep formatting beyond the point if insertion to remain as is.
Zuill
"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
Finale 2002b, 2003a, 2004b, 2005b, Win XP SP3, 2011b Win 7 64bit, 2012a Bought and Paid For (Hopefully soon 2012b with some of the MAJOR BUGS fixed--well, now with 2012b and some of the bugs are fixed) 2012c, with some bug fixes. 2014a now.
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Mike Rosen
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| Posted 3/31/2014 6:19 PM (GMT -6) | | Not if he had started in scroll view, with all the parts. The problem is, since he didn't, and is trying to add them in later, he has to do his backwards formatting in Page View.
Mike Rosen
www.specialmillwork.com
Bass with Choir of the Sound www.choirofthesound.org
Volunteer notation editor (The Gang of Eight) for the Barbershop Harmony Society
FINALE TIPS at www.specialmillwork.com/finale-tips-and-tricks/index.html
Finale 2010, 2011, 2012c, 2014a on Mac 10.9.1
Simple Entry, QWERTY keyboard. That's my system, and I'm stickin' to it.
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Zuill
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| Posted 3/31/2014 6:50 PM (GMT -6) | | It seems, from my reading of the original post, that the idea for the introduction came later, so now has to be added. Ideally, one would want to start with all the notation in proper sequence, but sometimes, that is not the case.
In any event, since the deed has been done, there is still the better option to insert ssystems instead of measures to keep the latter formatting.
By the way, since Finale added the ability to scroll pages, I am much less likely to use scroll view as in days of yore. For some projects, it is better, but for many, it is less desirable. That is especially true of single staff music or grand staff music. With page view, I can see many more measures than in scroll view.
Zuill
"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
Finale 2002b, 2003a, 2004b, 2005b, Win XP SP3, 2011b Win 7 64bit, 2012a Bought and Paid For (Hopefully soon 2012b with some of the MAJOR BUGS fixed--well, now with 2012b and some of the bugs are fixed) 2012c, with some bug fixes. 2014a now.
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