This is an important feature request and should be very seriously considered by MakeMusic. 

Thanks, John!

Come to think of it, implementing the ability to adjust the length of ledger line extensions into special tools would be a great alternative to Finale doing this kind of thing automatically. This way, any semi-automatic combined adjustments to ledger lines and accidentals could be handled by a plug-in. This is not ideal, of course, but nevertheless more in line with how Finale is currently working and possibly easier to implement.

In any case, the ability to adjust the length of ledger lines would be a great feature by itself, and could perhaps also partly resolve the problem you expressed in your most recent post.

This is a great suggestion. Finale is sorely lacking in how it handles note spacing with ledger lines in general. But someone on the Finale list made a great suggestion for that. An algorithm, as it were:

1. Shorten the ledger length in Doc options.
2. Run note spacing.
3. Restore the original ledger length.

This turns out to be incredibly effective at improving note spacing of ledger-line notes. Though of course it would be a huge pain to do it every time you ran note spacing. But you know what excels at an algorithm? Plugins. Now I'm going to toot my own horn, but if you care about note spacing that you will want to hear this toot. I added a Note Spacing plugin my suite that does exactly that algorithm. Check it out. It has some other cool features as well, like remembering different spacing options for different regions of the file. I never, ever use the 4 key any more. I always use the keyboard macro for my plugin.

Thanks, Robert.

I haven't tested the new additions to your plug-in suite except for Copy System Baselines, which doesn't seem to work for some reason.

I'll definitely check out the spacing plug-in, though.

BTW, as you know, Finale does not consider any optical compensation cases (e.g., cross staff notes/facing stems, large intervals etc.) in it's spacing either. Do you think it would be possible to create a plug-in to handle those cases as well?

Knut,

I would be interested in more information about the context in which Copy System Baselines did not work. (I believe you have my email address if you want to contact me off-forum.)

I did discover recently that Copy Page Layout does not work if Automatic Update Layout is turned on. Though it seems unlikely fix the baselines issue, I suppose that would be something to try.

Robert

This is an important feature request and should be very seriously considered by MakeMusic.

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