[JW Lua] How to mark objects to be excepted from automatic processing?

[Jari Williamsson]

Thomas,

My suggestion would be to create a data (text?) file, that uses the same 
name/path as the document but with a different extension.

At the start of the plug-in, the contents of the data file is is read 
into a lookup table, and at the end the contents of the file is rewritten.

Identify an element by referencing as many attributes as needed to make 
sure that it's the correct one.


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson


On 2015-11-14 18:33, Thomas Weber wrote:
> Dear experts,
>
> I guess this is might be a common problem.  Say we have a script that automates positioning of certain elements like certain expressions.  Now there are some expressions that were carefully positioned by hand and shouldn't be re-positioned by our Lua script.
>
> I can think of strategies for flagging objects in Sibelius or Score, but I have no idea how to do it in Finale.  Maybe except for adding some extra text saying "don't touch" and hide it.  But detecting these texts might slow things down significantly.
>
> Any best practices?
>
> Best,
> Thomas Weber
>
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