(The complete message from John is quoted below since it went to me personally instead of to the list)
I think the main problem with Finale in this respect is that Coda has not yet managed to provide Finale with good house settings for everyday use. And yes, I would love to have support for house styles in Finale in a way similar to Sibelius's. A start would be support for multiple default files in the doc wizard, with several different styles ready to start with. Johannes On 16.04.2002 21:09 Uhr, John Howell wrote > Our music department adopted Mosaic in 1994 and subsequently switched to > Finale in about 1998, because of more favorable pricing for our students, > as far as I know. (They are required by our university to have a minimum > package of communications and applications programs, and our department > further requires majors to have--as of now--Finale.) Our department head > has about had it with Finale and the difficulties our students are > consistently having in making it work. He is seriously considering > adopting Sibelius. > > With great respect to the power users who are so wonderfully helpful in > this forum, what we need and what almost everyone in music needs is a > program that produces professional looking copy right out of the box in an > intuitive manner that anyone can quickly learn. No tweaking. No default > file fiddling around. No needing to add plugins or write them in order to > do things the basic program should be doing for you. I belong to the > overwhelming majority (outside this list, at least) who couldn't write a > plugin to save my life. I am a computer user, not a computer programmer. > I probably use less than 5% of the capabilities in ANY program I run, > because to keep selling upgrades the programmers keep adding to what the > programs will do. I don't need those capabilities. In fact I'm sure I > don't even know about them. The same thing is true of Finale. I will > never need and never use 90% of its fancy bells and whistles, and neither > will our students. Sibelius sounds better and better to me for what the > average musician, not the professional engraver, needs in a program. > > John > -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
