[Noel Stoutenburg:]
>My hunch is, if you are a serious musician (in whatever sense you wish to use
>the word, you are quickly going to come up against the limitations imposed by
>Notepad, and I suspect my suggestion to most people would be to start with
>Printmusic or Allegro, or at least plan to migrate there quickly.
Well, I suppose it would depend on just what the limitations of NotePad
are. If I had some clue as to that, it would clarify what to do. I don't for
one moment think NotePad would be sufficient overall and in the long term for
anything I do - but a proportion of my work might be simple and/or short enough
to do in NotePad; and while I sort out other things I need to sort out before I
get and start using Finale (which for various reasons could take me a while), I
could at least do some of the simpler work in NotePad, and this might have the
advantage of helping me learn how to use its basic functions, and therefore the
corresponding ones in Finale, if I assume functions common to both work the same
way. I do not do music professionally, and do not have to meet deadlines, so
perhaps I can afford to be flexible like this, and organize the way I work
around NotePad and its limitations for some months, at least - depending on just
what those limitations are. Are they more to do with the complexity of notation
you can use, or the size of files, or the number of pages in a score, or what?
What *would* be important would be that any files I create in NotePad be
fully readable and useable in Finale - but I imagine this would be so, wouldn't
it?
Regards,
Michael Edwards.
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