On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 09:28 AM, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
Accurate and consistent placement, I believe, is where the EVPU comes in
handy (to contribute to a recent thread). Since Finale's core works in
EVPUs and any other measurement is really a conversion from that unit, I
think that it is much easier to deal with "63 EVPUs" in a dialog box
than "0.21875 inches" or "0.55562 centimeters."
To me, EVPUs are just too small to be useful -- the numbers become enormous very very quickly, and it's hard (for me at least) to relate to them as a meaningful unit of measurement. (I know lots of people on the list disagree, but... ).
I use points. Points are nice because they are one nudge of the arrow key at 100%, and it's easy to relate points to the 24-point staff height. And in those circumstances where you actually need the precision of EVPUs, I still find it easier to think of, say, 2.75 points (which means something to me), rather than 11 EVPUs (which means nothing to me).
- Darcy
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