In a long piano concerto I changed in the piano part in the full score layout manually hundreds of stem directions and cautionary accidentals by mistake in mode “local properties”. Of course all these changes don’t show up in the single piano part for the piano player.
Is there a way or workaround to propagate these changes from full score layout into part layout? Having selected only notes (properties are visible) Edit/Propagate Properties does not work. (I have read the manual and the comments about this issue here in the forum.)
I would expect changes you have made in the full score to be propagable to the part via Edit > Propagate Properties. That’s exactly what that feature is designed to do, so if it’s not working, that’s mysterious and we should investigate. Can you attach the project here, or send it to me via email at d dot spreadbury at steinberg dot de?
IIRC some features propagate in Engrave mode and some in Write mode, so I usually propagate twice when I want to make sure the parts are duplicates.
Problem solved! I made a stupid selection mistake. Sorry to have bothered you, and thanks a lot for your replies.
I was about to ask a similar question, but would like to extend this a bit:
I’m working in a large orchestral score, and just discovered that Set Local Properties was set to local not global. I didn’t intend for this to be the case, and I’m working in the full score (I have done zero work on individual parts). Given that information, is there any harm in me selecting the ENTIRE score and choosing Edit > Propagate Properties, just to make sure that all the individual parts inherit the hundreds of changes I may have made while editing the full score?
It sounds like that’s what the feature is built for, but I just want to be sure I’m using it correctly.
In other words, if I’m looking at my full score, and I select all, then choose Edit > Propagate Properties, that means ALL changes I see in the full score will definitely propagate to all the parts, no exceptions?
Yes, that should work. As Derrek stated above, Write mode properties are separate from Engrave mode properties, so do it twice to be sure. One thing to be aware of is that if you’ve been manually moving things around in Engrave mode, the [x,y] offset is also a property that will be propagated. Those may not be as useful in the parts.
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Thank you @hrnbouma. That’s exactly what I needed to know.
@hrnbouma Quick follow-up though. In Engrave mode, I can’t select all. How would you do this operation in Engrave mode?
Select all in Write mode, then switch to Engrave mode. The selection should stay active.
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Perfect, thank you.