David W. Fenton wrote:
Okay, you're right, David, Finale sucks big-time. Why are you using it
then?
It is like ALL computer software I have every seen (I started on
Commodore 64 and switched to PCs around the time of DOS 2.2) -- Nothing
ever works the way I think it should.
So I learned early on to either be flexible enough to change my way of
thinking to whatever software gives me the outut I want, or search for a
piece of software that works more like I think it should, or write my own.
Since I lacked the time or inclination to do the latter (learn to
program every application I could want so it would work as I wanted it
to) and since I do a lot of research before purchasing an application so
I don't have to purchase one application after another until finally
finding one that worked somewhat closely to what I thought, that leaves
me with having to deal with the first choice -- having found the
application that produces the output I want, I simply learn to work with it.
It really isn't that big a deal -- instead of whining about how it
doesn't work as you think it should you could spend that time figuring
out how to work with it and get the results you want.
Or not. Purchase Sibelius so you can start bitching about how that
doesn't work the way you think it should.
But you can take your Stockholm syndrome and shove it.
[snip]
> Obviously I'm in a minority here, as everyone seems, once again, to
> reflexively defend Finale's default behaviors.
>
> Frankly, I'm beginning to conclude that many of the regular users of
> Finale on this list are victims of the Stockholm syndrome, because
> they seem unable to do anything but rationalize many of Finale's
> obvious failings.
>
> I'm coming at it as a long-time but sporadic Finale user who has just
> upgraded from an older version to the latest version. Coda has fixed
> many important aspects of the program, but they have also introduced
> a number of new counterintuitive aspects to the program, very much
> consistent with all the things we've complained about for years. This
> seems to me to suggest that the problems with Finale are not so much
> legacy issues as they are failure of imagination on Coda's part.
>
> If that's so, Sibelius will win after all.
>
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David H. Bailey
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