Re: beams across barlines
G'day William,
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Now comes the logical follow-up request: when the "layer with next" box is checked, could NWC not check the size of the staff to be layered with and adjust accordingly? When the two staves to be layered differ in upper and lower boundaries, the smaller boundaries should be adjusted to match the larger ones. It seems as though this could be made automatic with a minimum of programming...
Actually, I think I would resist making this automagic... There are times when you actually don't want the staves to have the same boundaries.
E.G. Only in the last few days someone (please forgive me, I forget who it was) wanted to have a set of orchestral staves (or was it grand???) with barlines that did not meet because it did not suit his preference for layout, and interferred with several markings - Dim. and cresc. "hairpins" were the main problem.
The solution was to hide the barlines in the main orchestral/grand staves and use the barlines from the layered, standard, staves.
I'm fairly sure it came up in the news group.
It might help to have the staff sizes (and possibly types) added to Score Review.
An option to show all or just visible staves might be useful as well.
This suggestion is more to my liking...
Lawrie