How to "split" a staff?

[Bespinben]

How would I do the following? The "staff in half" thing in measures 42-45. I use Finale 2011.

[Shadoninja]

There should be a plug-in for that. I believe it's in TG Tools.

If you want to do that by hand, I think you have to disable Margin Collision in the page layout tool.

[Bespinben]

I found something called "Vertical Collision Remover" within the Scoring and Arranging section of the plug-ins. I couldn't get it to do what I wanted though.

If you want to do that by hand, I think you have to disable Margin Collision in the page layout tool.

I'm very much interesting in doing it this way. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything that allowed me to do that, much to my chagrin.

This is what I'm working on, it's a medley of various fanfares: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/35209091/PMD%20Fanfares%20Collection.mus

If you could help me figure this out, I'd really, really appreciate it 

Oh, and btw, the screenshot in the previous post was taken from the solo sax "Minor Remnants" arrangement in the Music Thread.

[Shadoninja]

I was wrong, it's in "Measures ->Create Coda System"


I figured out how to do it:

-Page Layout Tool, Uncheck "Avoid Margin Collision"
-Using the boxes at the bottom right, shrink the system where you want the "split" to be. Holding shift helps if you don't want to shrink/enlarge vertically.
-Bring the system below up next to the first system. Align if necessary and then shrink that to fill the rest of the space. The shrink/enlarge box seems to need to be on the page in order for it to work.
-Use the Measure Tool to add a double bar line to the first system.

This could be a good topic for an NSM Resources.

[Bespinben]

YES!!! Thanks Shado, huge help. I ended using the plug-in method, since Finale wasn't letting me drag the lower system upwards with the staff tool even though "Avoid Margin Collision" was turned off.

...this would make a nice topic in NSM resources. Then again, it's a fairly obscure problem.

[Shadoninja]

YES!!! Thanks Shado, huge help. I ended using the plug-in method, since Finale wasn't letting me drag the lower system upwards with the staff tool even though "Avoid Margin Collision" was turned off.

...this would make a nice topic in NSM resources. Then again, it's a fairly obscure problem.

You're supposed to use the page layout tool not the staff tool.
It could be a topic about making codas.

[Olimar12345]

What a lovely piece you have pictured there...