On 21 Oct 2003 at 13:14, David H. Bailey wrote: > Well, they're hoping you won't ever use any other software again. > Having bought last year's competitive upgrade (I sent in the pages > from the table of contents), I can assure you that most hard-core > Finale users will not enjoy using Sibelius very much. It has a couple > of neat things, but when it comes to the nitty-gritty, Finale is a far > more powerful and capable program.
But it's much easier for people to learn. I started someone out on Finale this last summer, and the process of teaching them really showed me a lot about how much you have to know to get the basics. And I was teaching Simple Entry! Of course Finale 2004 supposedly vastly improves Simple Entry, but I didn't even get to page layout, which is ridiculously difficult, even now. Just yesterday I I had to reprint pages because changing the page orientation does not automatically send the same information to the printer driver. It's been over 10 years since any other program I use required that kind of extra work just to get something done. With missing the OS X bandwagon and still having that kind of ridiculously user-unfriendly behavior, I'm pretty sure that Finale is going down the tubes in the next 5 years, to become the WordPerfect of notation packages. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
