<div dir="ltr">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.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Paul W. Palm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul_w_palm@yahoo.com" target="_blank">paul_w_palm@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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Jari Williamsson> …the primary focus is currently aimed towards script developers and improving the general JW Lua environment.<br>
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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.<br>
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Jari Williamsson> I will probably put some scripts on the tips site before the repository is in place.<br>
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Has this happened? Where are they? The scripts demoed on YouTube are:<br>
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dynamics_horizpos.lua<br>
artic_slurs.lua (needs ability to select a gap other than 7 EPVUs, like 4.5 points)<br>
dynamics_artics.lua (needs ability to select a gap other than 7 EPVUs,…)<br>
dynamics_hairpins.lua (needs ability to select a gap other than 10 EPVUs,…)<br>
barenreiter_hairpinends.lua<br>
vcenter_dynamics_hairpins.lua<br>
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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.<br>
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Jari Williamsson> The scripts in the demo need some more testing before they can be published to end users.<br>
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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.<br>
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