At 3/16/2004 01:57 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
>You never zoom past 100%?
Why would I? Everything is readable at that point.
As David said, fine-tuning of positioning of *anything* in Finale -- slurs, lyrics, articulations, expressions, etc. -- is not possible at 100%. Even 200% involves a certain amount of guesswork. In Finale, WYSIWYG doesn't really kick in until you hit 400% -- and even then, there are often major discrepancies between screen and page.
Also, in orchestral scores, your system reduction is going to be considerably smaller than 100%. In a lot of situations, a Finale view of 100% in Page View might not be not so legible after all. I recently worked on a piece for three simultaneous orchestras, with three different conductors. On pages where all three orchestras had orchestral tuttis, it was impossible to fit all the music on an 11x17 score page at a legible size. The best solution we could find was to make three different versions of the score, one for each conductor. The conductor for Orchestra #1 got a score where all the Orch. #1 staves were at 65% system reduction, while the staves for Orch. #2 and Orch. #3 were cue-sized (i.e., 60% of 65%, which is 39%). The staves for Orch. #2 and #3 were not even close to being legible at 100% Page View -- but they still needed to be positioned correctly, without collisions. This positioning was not even remotely possible to do at a 100% zoom.
>> I can't image what possible purpose there would be in maximizing a >> scroll view. Whole width, obviously, but maximized would have at >> least 50% of the screen blank below the scroll view. > >But so what? What's the problem here? What else do you need to see >when you are working on a single Finale file?
Oh, perhaps you are a full-time composer?
I actually have a "real" job and can only compose during snippets of spare time.
I didn't realize we were comparing "real" jobs. My "real" job is as a copyist and engraver (which, as it turns out, does actually involve a fair bit of non-Finale work like email monitoring, etc). But I fail to see what this has to do with window size.
For instance, if I make a change to a global header file, when I recompile, it takes 15-20 minutes. That gives me the opportunity to switch to Finale and add a few bars. But I have to monitor email, IM and the compile status. I need to see some part of all the windows at once.
Again, I have no idea what this has to do with window size. Maybe Expos� has spoiled me, but I don't know why you always need to see (at least part of) all of your currently open widows at once.
When you are working on Finale, you are working on Finale. When you need to switch to email (or whatever), you need to actually switch to that application to *do* anything in that application, and that's what cmd-tab (or alt-tab) is for. [Or Expos�. Or the Dock. Or the Windows Taskbar.] If, while you are using Finale, you also need to monitor whether any new email has come in, or whether you have a new instant message, or whether another app has completed its current task, there are very, very easy ways of doing this that don't require any part of any other window to be visible. Again, I don't really see how any of this makes using non-maximized Finale windows essential.
This may not be your preferred way of working, and that's fine. Maybe you like having every window you're currently working on partially visible. Whatever. Like I said, I'm not trying to force anything on anybody. I'm just trying to get Finale to behave like other OS X applications. If you don't use a Mac, then this discussion is totally irrelevant to you -- Finale for Windows already behaves exactly the way I want Finale for Mac to behave (in this regard, at least), and I've never heard any Windows users complain about this behavior. If you do use a Mac, but never use the Zoom widget, then even if my suggestion were to be implemented, you wouldn't notice any difference whatsoever. In addition to consistency with other Mac OS X applications, my suggestion simply offers a simple, standard way for Mac Finale users who *like* all of their windows to be maximized by default to *get* all of their windows to be maximized by default.
I'm just a little perplexed that you would say that you "can't imagine" why someone would want a Finale window to be maximized. Surely you can *imagine* working on an orchestral score, even if this isn't something you don't typically do.
- Darcy
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