Document Styles vs Libraries

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Post by finalizer » Thu Jan 05, 2023 9:59 pm

What are the differences between Document Styles and Libraries?

When is one preferred to the other?
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Peter Thomsen
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Post by Peter Thomsen » Thu Jan 05, 2023 10:31 pm

The difference is that
- a Document Style is a Finale document (= containing “everything”),
- a Library only contains what you have selected when saving the Library (File menu > Save Library…).
Example: a Library may contain only Chord Suffixes.
You can load a Library into a Finale document (File menu > Load Library…)

To use a Document Style, create a new document from that very Document Style.

To load a Library into a Finale document, open the Finale document, and go to
File menu > Load Library…

When you need to create many new documents with the same properties (fonts, music spacing settings, chord suffixes, &c.), you would prefer using a Document Style.

When you need some changes in an already existing document, you would prefer loading a Library into that document.

Geddit?
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Post by motet » Thu Jan 05, 2023 11:27 pm

Any way to keep Load Library from making duplicate expressions and categories?

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Post by finalizer » Thu Jan 05, 2023 11:56 pm

From what I understand, when saving a library you save the whole Document Options. Is there a way to only save in a library a specific Time Signatures setting?

I want to keep all the Document Options in a file while only adding a different Time Signature setting from another file
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