[sib-access] Re: How select and copy discontiguous staves
- From: "Claudio Sacco" <cl.sacco@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:21:27 +0200
Dan,
This include/exclude plugin is more than phantastic. And may thanks for the
step by step explanation.
Regards
Claudio
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> [mailto:sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Rugman
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> Subject: [sib-access] Re: How select and copy discontiguous staves
>
> Actually, you can do this. It involves using one of the
> access plug-ins, though I don't think I've written any
> documentation for this one and you need to run it from the
> plug-ins menu.
>
> I used the Bebop score to test whether this would work and it
> does. What I did was copied the music from the trumpet and
> upright bass staves into the piano staves. Here's the step by step.
>
> 1. Open Bebop.sib.
> 2. Navigate to the trumpet staff.
> 3. Press Ctrl+Home to select the first note/rest in that staff.
> 4. Press Ctrl+Shift+End to select to the end of the staff.
> 5. From the main menus choose Plug-ins > Access > Include /
> exclude staves.
> 6. The dialog which opens contains a list of all staves.
> You'll see that each staff has the word "included" or
> "excluded" after it. Trumpet will be the only staff that is included.
> 7. Arrow down to upright bass.
> 8. Tab to the change button and press it.
> 9. Upright bass will now change to included.
> 10. Tab to the close button and press it.
> 11. In the score press Ctrl+C to copy the music to the
> clipboard. (You could do Ctrl+X if you wanted to cut and
> paste the notes.) 12. Navigate to the piano [a] staff and
> press Ctrl+Home to select the first note/rest on that staff.
> 13. Press Shift+DownArrow to add the piano [b] staff to the selection.
> 14. Press Ctrl+V to paste the music from the two staves in
> the first passage selection onto the two staves in the new
> passage selection.
> 15. The music in the piano staves will now be the same as
> that in the trumpet and upright bass staves.
>
> It's worth clarifying how this works. If you copy a passage
> selection to the clipboard and then paste into another
> passage selection, the notes from each staff in the first
> passage will be pasted into each staff of the second passage.
> It doesn't matter if the staves in the first passage are
> further apart or closer together than those in the second.
> All that matters is the order of the staves.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Dan Rugman
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