Then it becomes a competition of engravers and not software. So a "souped-up" version of Finale on plug-in steroids is going to go up against an out-of-the-box Sibelius (because that is the only way that program can be used). Sounds fair to me. Not.
And since you would include any plug-ins available anywhere, then I think it is of small consequence not to allow any fonts available anywhere. Since expandability/improvability is obviously allowed, then fonts should not be an issue at all -- the entrants should be allowed to use any fonts they wish since they can use any plug-ins they wish. Either the programs are compared entirely as they can be used, changeable fonts, plug-ins (both included and after-market) and all, or they are compared entirely as they come out of the box. To allow some expandability to Finale but to deny any expandability to Sibelius seems disengenuous to me. A competition of engravers and not software, after all? Great, but then time must be an issue as well -- how FAST can the desired results be reached? On your marks, grab your scribes, GO! Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 28.04.2002 12:54 Uhr, David H. Bailey wrote > > >>But if it is truly a competition between software and NOT users, then >>all included software packages should be used ONLY as they come out of >>the box, with all tweakings done by the users. And if Sibelius can >>achieve a 95% emulation of a major house in 5 days but Finale can >>achieve a 100% emulation of a major house but it takes a couple of >>months, then that needs to be stated among the competition results. >> > > I don't quite agree. My original idea was a competition mainly between > software, but not necessarily between software out of the box. I wanted to > see which program truly is the best to get the best possible engraving in > different situations. That would include adding additional tools such as > plugins. Fonts are a slightly different matter in my opinion, because any of > the professional packages allow to use any font that is in a standard > format. I think I'd like to limit fonts to the package included ones for > some of the set works, while allowing anything for others. I would > definitely allow all plugins that are available to anyone, whether freeware > or not. > > Johannes > -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
