Klarinet Archive - Posting 000099.txt from 2005/09

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] problem in Finale
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:21:35 -0400

Rien,

Since you mention printing, I'll assume you're using "page mode." Since
you're trying to optimize, I'll assume you're working on a score with
one system per page and the problem is with the spacing between the
staves. As Joseph Wakeling suggested, clicking "Undo" in the Edit menu
until the problems have all undone themselves should work if you haven't
saved and closed the file yet. Another possibility is to find a backup
file - by default Finale saves a backup automatically when you re-save a
file unless you've turned the feature off. It would be a file with the
same name as the one you're working on but with a .bak extension,
probably in the same directory as the original file.

If neither of these works or if the backup you find is missing too much
(you had changed too much during the last session before the
"unfortunate events" took place), try this and let us know if it solves
the problem:
- Open the file (if it isn't still open)
-Click the Staff tool in the Finale toolbar (the treble clef)
-Click Staff that now appears in the Windows toolbar above it
-Click Respace Staves... in the dropdown menu
-In the dialog box that opens accept the defaults for Top Staff Position
(Set to 0) and Distance between staves (Set to -1.11111). These values
should restore the original spacing. From there, now that you know where
the dialog is, you can experiment with other spacings.

Of course (quickest and dirtiest saved until last), you can also drag
the staves back to wherever you want them manually. Click the staff
tool, then click the handle at the beginning of any staff you want to
move and drag it upward (or downward).

I hope something of the above helps. If not, reply with more details
either on or off the list.

Karl

Rien Stein wrote:

>
> I am using Finale as a music notation program. My most recent composition
> (don't think I consider myself a composer, however: I write music
> strictly
> for the fun of it), a fairy tale about an emu, had an accident:
>
> Unwisely I tried to optimize the original composition, not a copy of it.
> Something went wrong: I heard music played by instruments whose staves
> where
> empty, and thus not in the optimized score, upon playback. Texts were in
> other places, and so on.
>
> Thus I tried to de-optimize the composition. That gave some problems, as
> well, however!
>
> Some pages now are "too low", that is the upper stave is somewhere
> halfway
> on the page, thus the lower staves are below the page, and are not
> printed.
>
> Can someone tell me how to remedy this unfortunate phenomenon? TIA
>
> Rien
>
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