Independent Staves for Formatting

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kukes
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Post by kukes » Mon Mar 27, 2017 10:24 pm

Hey everyone I'm having the biggest brain fart over here.

How to you enable your staves to work independently to where if I were to adjust one staff, the same staff is not effected within other systems. When you activate it, a little symbol appears on the top right hand corner of every system (I've attached a picture of that symbol.) How to I activate that symbol and create independent staves?

I'm using Finale 2010

Thanks!
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Post by motet » Mon Mar 27, 2017 10:55 pm

I forget when things were changed from "Optimizing" to the current system. The current default is that dragging a staff handle in the System tool only affects the one system, so maybe you need to "optimize" from the Page Layout tool menu. Be sure to study the options--you may not want to remove empty staves, for example.
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Post by zuill » Mon Mar 27, 2017 10:56 pm

In 2010, it still used the old system called optimization. You can optimize the whole score at once, or system by system. If, in the Page Layout Tool, you choose the handle for a certain system, you can choose to optimize just that system. Frankly, I don't recall the wording of the item in the menu. Sorry.

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Post by motet » Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:00 pm

("Optimize staff systems.")

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Post by zuill » Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:08 pm

I found it: Allow Individual Staff Spacing. This is located in the context menu when selecting only one system. This optimizes only the current system. I would lock systems first, or you might find some unexpected behavior.

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Post by kukes » Tue Mar 28, 2017 12:24 am

Ah yes! Thank you everyone.

Page Layout-->Optimize Staff Systems-->Deselect "Remove empty staves"-->Select "All systems of current part/score"

Happy Composing!

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