Choose Junction for Staff dialog box
How to get there
- In the Score Merger dialog box (see Score Merger dialog box), check Edit
Instrument Junction Between Files. Add files with different instrumentations.
- Click on Merge These Files into One File. Click Merge. In the Instrument
Junction dialog box, double-click a staff or click Edit Selected Line.
What it does
The commands in this dialog
box allow you to control how staves will be merged.
The title of the dialog reflects which
instrument is being currently edited (in this case, Bassoon). To the left
are instruments from the target, and to the right Finale displays what
will happen to them in relation with the current instrument once the files
are merged. For example, the bassoon is currently configured to be inserted
below the Oboe.
Select a staff and use the buttons in this
dialog box to edit the merging behavior of staves relative to corresponding
staves in the previous merged document.
- Join. Choose Join to tell
Finale that the instruments are equivalent between the two files being
merged and should be combined. If the target instrument you want to join
the source instrument to is joined onto another instrument already, an
alert appears.
- Separate. Choose Separate to clear the current assignment
(inserted or joined) in order to specify that they are to be joined, inserted
above, or inserted below another staff in the merged document (or not
merged altogether). For example, if no target instrument is assigned to
the currently edited source instrument (marked "Free"), then
the source instrument will not be merged at all. You can see this clearly
when returning to the Instrument Junction dialog box (as shown below).
- Insert
Above. Choose Insert Above to indicate
that you want the current staff inserted above the selected staff in the
resulting merged document.
- Insert
Below. Choose Insert Below to indicate
that you want the current staff inserted below the selected staff in the
resulting merged document.
- Continue • Cancel Merge. Click
continue to apply your settings and advance through the score merging
process. Click Cancel Merge to abort the current merge procedure.
See also:
To combine two files with Score Merger
Score Merger
dialog box
