[sib-access] Re: Working with large scores
- From: "Kevin Gibbs" <kevjazz@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:27:37 -0600
Dan,' The trouble with focus on staves is that if you have anything new
selected when you reuse focus on staves, your original focus on staves will
be lost. The recommendation was put forward with the assumption that one
would always select the entire score between before using the hide empty
staves command. You would also add additional staves to the shown selection
by selecting the entire score and then choosing show empty staves followed
by highlighted the one new staff you'd like to add and then scrolling
through the result to see that only one new staff had been added. You would
then always enable show all staves before laying out or printing the score.
One word of warning. Changing the hide or show empty staves option will
*dramatically* alter the layout of the score. It also only applies to
selected bars. So, if you use this approach, make sure that you do a final
pass for hiding and showing staves throughout the entire score before you
print.
It's better to use focus on staves for this.
Dan Rugman
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Subject: [sib-access] Working with large scores
I don't know how many of you guys ever write for full orchestra. I'm
working on something and I've discovered something very obvious but cool.
when working on large scores, the hide or show empty staves in the layout
menu can be very useful. Let's say that you have a section you're working
on where there are bits of every orchestral section with some notes in them
but not every staff in each group has music. Select a bar in that section
that has all the instruments you want shown and choose hide empty staves.
Now, and here's the fun part, as you go along and discover that you need one
more staff that was previously hidden, using the show empty staves command
will yield a list of all your choices. simply select one more staff, and it
is added to the staves you see on screen. This dramatically lessens the
amount of vertical moving you have to do in your large score to write what
you need. I'm sure some of you already knew this and some others have no
use for it. But I thought it was a cool thing. K. If you wish to
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