On 20 Jun 2004 at 6:52, dhbailey wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > [snip] > > I'm about to give up on Finale. > > > > Too many things are just completely broken in it, and too hard to > > figure out. > > > > And I've been using it regularly since 1990, so I'm not by any means > > a novice. > > Before you jump ship, you should take a long and careful look at the > archives of the Sibelius group at yahoogroups. There really isn't any > less frustrating program to switch to, so you will just be trading one > set of frustrations for another. > > Unless you go back to pen & paper. > > I'm not trying to suggest that you aren't correct or that you > shouldn't be feeling the frustrations you feel. > > I just want you to be certain of what you are doing if you try to jump > ship to Sibelius. I'm not sure what other options there are these > days.
Finale is going to vanish in the next five years because it's got way too many legacy problems that Coda cannot or will not fix. It's surely gaining less than half of the market of new users. I understand that Sibelius is not as flexible as Finale, but most of the flexibility in Finale is a problem for me, since I have to work around options that I don't really need. Maybe I wouldn't be happy with Sibelius's engraving results, but it's going to be the only ballgame soon, so I would suggest that people get started getting to know the ins and outs of Sibelius. It seems to me that Finale's days are clearly numbered. -- 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
