[JWplugins] New accidental setting

[Steve Vai]

Thanks Jari, 
Great Work. 
s

ps,
"How do you want to align the articulations? On a horizontal line?"
s- Horizontal


On Mar 18, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Jari Williamsson wrote:

On 2013-03-18 21:12, Steve Vai wrote:

> 1. Consolidate Rests:

JW Meter & Rhythm->Rhythm Transformation->Rests (using "Transform According to Signature" or "Merge Adjacent Rests") seems to be what you need.


> 2. Wreck remover:

JW Validate (currently in the Beta section) should be able to alert you about the examples you gave in later builds. (The functionality is not there in the current beta version.)


> 3. Instant Page layout:

There will be a plug-in for that later this year (I hope!), that will include this and other related tasks. I'll let the you all know when I'm a bit closer to "release" on that project.


> 4. Staff Freeze: It would be nice to have a plug in that can freeze
> an entire staff from beginning to end so that you can apply various
> global attributes to the entire doc with the exception of a
> highlighted staff, staves, region or partial region.

This is a feature request you need to send to MM. Plug-ins aren't able to lock data from other parts of Finale.


> 5. Partial measure edit: There are many plug ins and tasks that
> require you to highlight an entire bar but many times I do not want
> the data in the whole bar to change, just a few notes.
> Would be nice to be able to have certain plugins effect
> partial measures.

I try to make as many of my plug-ins as possible supporting partial regions. The biggest exception is JW Staff Polyphony, for technical reasons.


> 6. Auto align: Automatically align dynamics and articulations.
> There maybe something that does this correctly but I have not
> found it yet. Sometimes articulations wonder a bit as does
> expressions, dynamics, etc. Would be nice to to have a plug
> in that automatically aligns these things in an intuitive way
> as to where they were meant to be wihout causing collisions.

JW Change (currenty in beta) will later be able to set expressions according to a specific positioning.

How do you want to align the articulations? On a horizontal line?


> 7. Forgotten Stragglers: Would be nice to have a plug in that
> finds measures that are missing descriptive info such as a
> starting dynamic, hanging tutti's and divis', missing "loco"
> at the end of an 8va passage, etc. or at least takes you to the
> start of divisis and pizzicatos so you can check if they have
> closure. My scores can be pretty complex and large and it's
> hard to find them all sometimes when checking.

This is one of the main parts of what JW Validate will do in later builds.


> 8. Cover Page templates: Would be nice to have some pre-created
> cover page templates or a template you can fill in that would
> create a cover page that has instrumentation, composers notes,
> percussion legends etc. The only way I figured out how to do it
> now is to create a blank page and build something on it with the
> text tool. Finale redraws every letter sometimes, massive waste of time.

Should this page be inserted to all linked parts?


> 9. Spell check would be nice.

I'll probably provide some common spelling mistakes in musical terms in JW Validate later on.


> 10. Attached ???: Would be nice to have a plug in that highlights
> all articulations, text expressions dynamics etc. that are attached
> to a particular staff, measure and note. For instance, you would
> highlight a staff and all it's elements (including attached to
> note or measure things) would be highlighted in one color. This
> way you can see if anything was inadvertently attached to the
> wrong staff, measure or note. So many times with big scores the
> only way that I know to do this is to extract parts and then
> check them with the score. But with something like this plug in
> you can check these things much easier while in scroll or page view.

The current build of JW Validate reports much of this.

> 11. Independent Beaming:

Try the JW Change BETA. It should be able to do much of this. It's available in the "Beta Versions" section on the site.

> 12. Tempo Finder

I agree. I had a Tempo Viewer in the Forza! plug-in long ago. Now it has become even more complex with Human Playback and everything.

> 13. Importing Libraries

There will be a feature for this in a plug-in later on (similar to my old "Forza!" plug-in for Windows).

> 14. Accidental Space:

Try and see if JW Note Spacing with "Fixed Barlines" checked might help a little here. That will space a measure without affecting the barlines.

> 15. Articulation Flip:

The JW Change BETA can do this in the current build.



Best regards,

Jari Williamsson


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