Independent staff/system movements

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Post by motet » Fri Dec 30, 2016 4:48 pm

That's the way it works--there's nothing wrong with your system.


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Post by NickG » Fri Dec 30, 2016 5:01 pm

motet wrote:That's the way it works--there's nothing wrong with your system.
I was assuming, from what I read in Finale Help that using Alt/option moved staves without affecting other staves.
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Post by motet » Fri Dec 30, 2016 5:05 pm

You certainly had a right to expect that. But it also says
When you drag or nudge the top staff of any system other than the first, Finale adjusts the distance between systems.
It seems like with Alt it could move only the top staff and grow the system until it bumped into the one above, but alas it doesn't seem to work that way.

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Post by NickG » Fri Dec 30, 2016 5:59 pm

motet wrote:You certainly had a right to expect that. But it also says
When you drag or nudge the top staff of any system other than the first, Finale adjusts the distance between systems.
It seems like with Alt it could move only the top staff and grow the system until it bumped into the one above, but alas it doesn't seem to work that way.
Thanks for the explanation.
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Post by NickG » Thu Jan 12, 2017 11:50 pm

today I got word from MM that the problem I've been experiencing (staff tool - independent staff movement) seems to be a bug on Mac computers. He has verified this on other Macs. I cancelled my appointment with the physicist.
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Post by motet » Fri Jan 13, 2017 12:15 am

I thought you were trying to move the top staff independently. You can't, which is a "feature" present on Windows as well, not a bug.

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Post by NickG » Fri Jan 13, 2017 12:52 am

motet wrote:I thought you were trying to move the top staff independently. You can't, which is a "feature" present on Windows as well, not a bug.
I'm aware of that. Not the top staff.
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