Richard Walker wrote:
[snip]
> That having been said, and not to reopen the Sibelius debate, but I do like
> the fact that the transposition short-cuts are available all the time in
> that program, no tool-switching required.
[snip]
THAT is one feature that I think most Finale users would love -- the
ability to use tools "invisibly" -- the program would know which tool to
use so that we could work without having to use the tool palettes
unless/until we wanted to.
So that WE could assign as many metatools as we wanted so that they
would be PROGRAM metatools, not specific to any underlying tool.
For example, currently the number metatools do one thing in the
articulation tool, another thing in the expression tool, and yet a third
thing in the mass-mover tool.
I would love it if I could assign my own metatool usage for work while
WITHIN either speedy or simple entry. So that I could assign my own
metatools to assign articulations or expressions or transpositions as
suits my own wishes and the program would do what I had assigned without
leaving the entry window. So I could assign something like ctrl-1 to
place a staccato, and ctrl-2 to place Forte, and ctrl-3 to add a note a
third higher, and ctrl-4 to transpose a pitch up an octave. My
assignments would follow whatever logic I wanted and when I used them
Finale would just do what I had assigned, without changing the focus to
the tool that is required or opening a dialogue box unless what I had
programmed for a particular metatool needed a dialogue box to work at all.
--
David H. Bailey
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