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Post by apkyburz » Sat Jun 08, 2019 11:25 pm

Hi Forum,

What's the most efficient way of creating an instrumentation page? Are there any plugins, or similar?

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Post by Bill Stevens » Sat Jun 08, 2019 11:56 pm

Please be more specific about what you mean by "Instrumentation Page". If you mean a blank score that you can use, Finale offers many templates, or you can use the Setup Wizard.

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Post by apkyburz » Sun Jun 09, 2019 2:48 am

Bill Stevens wrote:Please be more specific about what you mean by "Instrumentation Page". If you mean a blank score that you can use, Finale offers many templates, or you can use the Setup Wizard.

Bill
Sure!

With Instrumentation Page, I mean the page somewhere between the title page and m. 1; the page that shows what instruments are called for in the work.

Obviously, it's possible to do it manually, but maybe there's a workflow that would copy/paste the staff info for me.

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Post by motet » Sun Jun 09, 2019 4:21 am

Don't think so. Good idea for a feature request, though.

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Post by ebiggs1 » Sun Jun 09, 2019 4:22 pm

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You can make a text list of whatever instrumentation you desire. You can have several. The just "insert a blank page" under page layout. Copy and paste the text list on to it. Easy and simple.
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Post by HaraldS » Sun Jun 09, 2019 4:49 pm

You can use this JWLua script as a start. It creates a text block on page 1 containing all staff names. Make yourself familiar with JWLua before trying it out.

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-- Create a FCString with the raw Enigma string
local InstrumentList = finale.FCString()
InstrumentList.LuaString = "^font(Times New Roman)^size(12)^nfx(0)"

-- Append staff names to the InstrumentList String
local staves = finale.FCStaves()
staves:LoadAll()
for staff in each(staves) do
   local StaffName = staff:CreateDisplayFullNameString()
    InstrumentList:AppendString( StaffName ) 
    InstrumentList:AppendEOL() 
end

-- Create a page text object with the content of InstrumentList
-- Center it on the first page
local pagetext = finale.FCPageText()
pagetext.HorizontalAlignment = finale.TEXTHORIZALIGN_CENTER
pagetext.VerticalAlignment = finale.TEXTVERTALIGN_CENTER
pagetext.HorizontalPos = 0
pagetext.VerticalPos = 0
pagetext.Visible = true
pagetext.FirstPage = 1
pagetext.LastPage = 1
 
-- Save the raw text and text block first
pagetext:SaveNewTextBlock( InstrumentList )
-- Save the page text to the page 1 storage
pagetext:SaveNew(1)
The result:
InstrumentListExample.jpg
Is it that what you want?
Most instrumentation lists in scores wouldn't contain simply the staff names, though. Where the instrumentation list says "2 Flöten", the score might say "Flöte 1 und 2" or the like. After each instrument group, an instrumentation list would have a blank line. So most likely, a good instrumentation list would need to be done manually.
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Post by apkyburz » Mon Jun 10, 2019 3:41 pm

HaraldS wrote:You can use this JWLua script as a start. It creates a text block on page 1 containing all staff names. Make yourself familiar with JWLua before trying it out.

Is it that what you want?
Most instrumentation lists in scores wouldn't contain simply the staff names, though. Where the instrumentation list says "2 Flöten", the score might say "Flöte 1 und 2" or the like. After each instrument group, an instrumentation list would have a blank line. So most likely, a good instrumentation list would need to be done manually.
That's already a step in a pretty good direction. But yes, just as you say, it still requires some work to be done manually. It looks like the easiest way is to start from a template and adjust it to the circumstances.

Also: thank you very much for the Lua hint. This tool basically makes Finale scriptable! Jari doesn't cease to amaze.

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