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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I am having a bit of trouble getting my head around the copy/paste mechanism. I just want to, programmatically (i.e. without making a human “selection”), copy the entire contents of a staff into another (blank) staff. I have tried to define a “region” and so forth but am getting stuck. I looked closely at Jari’s “swap staves” plugin but am still not really “getting it.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m also wondering if, in a case like this, the copy/paste via the clipboard is necessary or optimal. Would it be better just to load the staff contents into some kind of array (or rather, in Lua parlance, a table) and use that instead? (I also note the use of terms such as “cell” and will investigate that.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For background, this is part of a large JW Lua script that “explodes” a condensed 9-staff score into between 18 and 52 individual instruments depending on content. The source material is voluminous (nearly 600 scores) and homogeneous, therefore scripting has the potential to save a lot of time (between 5 and 10 minutes per score, even if you use all the available JW and other plugins to facilitate the human task).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Martin Marris<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>