on 7/15/02 8:27 AM, Éric Dussault at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> While we are on about it, did I mention this? >> When erxtracting parts, keep Title pages (ie blank pages at the beginning) >> intact. >> >> (Currently the title page text blocks appear in the new file, but not on a >> blank page, which requires rather a lot of work to get fixed.) >> >> Johannes > > Good idea, but I don't think we should see Finale as a page layout program > that can handle complicated things like real page layout programs (Quark, > Pagemaker or Indesign...). I always rely on one of these to be sure that I > have the perfect control on these items (title page elements). > The people at Coda probably know that its software hasn't the features of > Quark, and also know that the ones of us that are making score for > professional output will rely on page layout softwares. But still it think > it wouldn't be a bad idea to make expand the text and graphic possibilities. > But for me the known bugs and requests most of us want are more important > than that.
But it's my feeling that Finale IS a page layout program, just for music. And handling text should be one of its basic functions besides the handling of the music. I don't see handling text blocks as complicated and I too would like to see Eric's suggestion implemented. *************************** J.D. Thomas ThomaStudios West Linn OR http://www.thomastudios.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
