At 1:38 PM -0800 7/12/02, Mark D. Lew wrote: > >Anyway, what happens to expressions that are in a music font? If I've got >an expression which is the pedal marking, it's going to show up on the list >under opt-shift-8?? That's crazy. I want to list it as something like >"Ped." Users who are less technically minded than I am are going to take >it for granted that in a type-in-score situation, they should type "ped" to >get the "Ped." character.
Yes, this has been an issue for Jazzfont users who want to type chords into score. The nicely stacked 7(#11b13#9) chord suffix shows up as a single character, and I am darned if I can remember which one it is! THere are 80 or so pre-aligned stacks like this, all under a single character, and nobody can possibly remember them all, and it is a huge pain to scroll through the list looking for the right one, ditto for looking it up on a printout beside your desk. There IS a workaround, which is to remember that it is number 67 in the list, then type D:67 for D7(#11b13#9), but if I could easily remember suffix number 67, I could probably just as easily remember opt-sh-J, so I have to look it up anyway. > >In addition I would really like to see autoplacement for expressions. I >>suggest that autoplacement can be done either automatically or perhaps when >>a hotkey is pressed simultaneously - again a program option to allow both >>ways as the user prefers. > >Yes, autoplacement of expressions is extremely important to me as well. >That is the gist of my suggestion that expression metatools should >represent an expression assignment, rather than just the expression. I >felt (and still feel) that this is the most logical way to create the >situation that you and I both want, ie, to be able to have the metatool put >the expression in an exact position which we have predefined. If Coda >prefers a different way to achieve the same thing, that's fine by me. > >(Incidentally, it occurs to me now that whether the resulting expression is >note-attached or measure-attached could be one more attribute of the >metatool. That seems obvious now, but for some reason I was thinking of the >note expressions and measure expressions as two entirely separate sets.) I like the "context-sensitive" option for note expressions or measure expressions, but, as you mentioned, how come we can't preserve staff lists for metatool-entered measure expressions, and automatic placement for metatool-entered note expressions? Or maybe toggle between using the attributes or not with the opt key, or something? > >I don't see why this should conflict with the flexibility we already have. Right! _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
