Need a different way to compress Staff Systems
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2019 10:49 am
The formatting of my current work is rather stylized: often I totally need to make some particular measures all land together in the same Staff System.
Finale anticipates this: "Begin A New Staff System" ("BANSS") is a good tool for stretching a prior System a little, and System Locks are an easy-to-use tool to define a System either way.
Unfortunately, System Locks are fragile: they don't survive cut-and-paste, for example. That leaves me looking for a different method for the compression situation. I've tried loading the "Tight Spacing.lib" library file; that makes things tight globally, then you use BANSS markings to define and stretch each system back out, as needed.
But... I find the results of always using Tight Spacing.lib to be a little funky in appearance, compared with using System Locks. And sometimes it just can't go tight enough for what I need.
Has anyone made a "Really Tight Spacing" library that's nice both when it's tight and when it's expanded?
Or, is there yet another way to control the contents of a Staff System? Especially the "compression" direction?
Thanks.
Finale anticipates this: "Begin A New Staff System" ("BANSS") is a good tool for stretching a prior System a little, and System Locks are an easy-to-use tool to define a System either way.
Unfortunately, System Locks are fragile: they don't survive cut-and-paste, for example. That leaves me looking for a different method for the compression situation. I've tried loading the "Tight Spacing.lib" library file; that makes things tight globally, then you use BANSS markings to define and stretch each system back out, as needed.
But... I find the results of always using Tight Spacing.lib to be a little funky in appearance, compared with using System Locks. And sometimes it just can't go tight enough for what I need.
Has anyone made a "Really Tight Spacing" library that's nice both when it's tight and when it's expanded?
Or, is there yet another way to control the contents of a Staff System? Especially the "compression" direction?
Thanks.