[JW Lua] Group Scripts, Finale 2014 and such things

[Alexander Blank]

Agreed; right now, I'm working on a 60+ page score for sinfonietta, and
these scripts could potentially save around 40 hours that it would take to
manually do all of the things these scripts do in seconds. This is the
perfect example of what a script can help with.



On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Paul W. Palm <paul_w_palm at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm back from a 3-week trip, ready to resume my Finale work.  I will
> continue to use Finale 2012 until I finish the edition I'm currently
> typesetting.  For my next edition, I'm looking forward to cutting my effort
> by 90+% using Finale 2014's 'Anchored Hairpins and Measure-Attached
> Smartshapes' and (hopefully) JWLua's 'Group Scripts' for unifying
> crescendos, decrescendos, and dynamics.
>
>
> Jari Williamsson> …the primary focus is currently aimed towards script
> developers and improving the general JW Lua environment.
>
> I appreciate that, but please understand how important and lacking Finale
> is in this aspect.  Imagine a score with hundreds of cresc. & decresc., all
> needing a uniform distance below each staff, all needing uniform beginnings
> and endings (relative to a prior and/or subsequent dynamic), all unwantedly
> changing with each layout update.  I am not exaggerating when I say that
> this consumes ~95% of my time when producing a score.
>
>
> Jari Williamsson> I will probably put some scripts on the tips site before
> the repository is in place.
>
> Has this happened?  Where are they?  The scripts demoed on YouTube are:
>
> dynamics_horizpos.lua
> artic_slurs.lua (needs ability to select a gap other than 7 EPVUs, like
> 4.5 points)
> dynamics_artics.lua (needs ability to select a gap other than 7 EPVUs,…)
> dynamics_hairpins.lua (needs ability to select a gap other than 10 EPVUs,…)
> barenreiter_hairpinends.lua
> vcenter_dynamics_hairpins.lua
>
>
> Note that in the YouTube 'Group Scripts' demo video, the script makes a
> decrescendo end too close to its following 'mp' relative to the proximity
> of the other cresc/decresc and their adjoining dynamics.
>
>
> Jari Williamsson> The scripts in the demo need some more testing before
> they can be published to end users.
>
> How about making them available to someone who can/will test, debug, and
> improve them?  You want more JW Lua users and script authors, right?  This
> will make me one.
>
>
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