Mass change beat-attached to note-attached smart shapes?
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I am currently engaged in a project which involves re-scoring a number of arrangements I made in earlier versions of Finale, some dating back up to twenty years. In opening some of the earlier ones, I am finding that slurs are converted into beat-attached smart shapes, instead of note-attached. Does anyone know of a way of quickly converting these instead of having to delete and recreate each one? I can save some time by changing one or two and then filter-copying, but that doesn't remove the beat-attached slurs, unless I add "beat-attached to the filter, in which case it erases hairpins etc. I seem to remember there once being a conversion utility, but I can't find any reference in the manual, and my memory may be faulty in any case.
Gareth J. Green
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- elbsound
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It would be possible to achieve with the JW Lua plug-in. But I don't know if such a script already exists.
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- N Grossingink
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Full TG Tools - Modify > Modify Slurs. It's the first one in the "Misc." tab.
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Aha! So that's where it was hiding; why didn't I think of looking there …
Many thanks.
G.
Many thanks.
G.
Gareth J. Green
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- motet
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Can you say at what point in Finale's history the change-over happened? I've got a lot of stuff created with Finale 2005 that I'll need to convert one day, but I wasn't aware of this issue.
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Slurs are always note attached. You can make them measure attached, but it takes a deliberate effort by selecting that option from the menu. I'm guessing you didn't do that, so looks like you're OK with your 2005 files.motet wrote:Can you say at what point in Finale's history the change-over happened? I've got a lot of stuff created with Finale 2005 that I'll need to convert one day, but I wasn't aware of this issue.
From what I've read, Finale 2000 was a major, major new version with a lot of new features. I think Smart Shapes and Smart Slurs were around before that but really don't know when they were introduced. It would be interesting to see a time line of Finale development.
N. Grossingink
Educational Band, Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble a specialty
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I can't say for certain, but if it helps, the first file I opened that exhibited the problem was from 1999. I've just opened a file from 2001 that doesn't result in the same problem.
Gareth J. Green
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I just tested a couple of Finale 97 files (opening in v26), and the slurs are all Note Attached.
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