On 20 Aug 2004 at 10:18, �ric Dussault wrote: > I can see how frustrating it is for you to have this bug, but we all > know that MakeMusic will repair them depending on how many people > complain about them. I fear that very few people will in this case for > two reasons : 1. Many people enter their notes in scroll view 2. Those > (like me) who enter the notes in Page View will unlikely use multiple > page because it is of no use at this stage of the music typesetting > process (maybe I overlooked and then you can explain to me the > benefits of having mulitiple pages when entering notes). The only time > I use multiple pages in when I fine tune the layout and make sure that > facing pages are balanced. This IS a bug, but I guess that many other > bugs will be corrected, and as the effect of this bug is not that > catastrophic, it is unlikely that this will be a priority for the > people at MM.
There's one big reason why the bug should be fixed: SIBELIUS Anyone coming to Finale from that background will immediately discard Finale as a viable product because of this bug. So, it really makes no difference whatsoever if experienced users will never encounter the bug. And using majority vote for choosing bug fixes is incredibly stupid when the bug is likely to be encountered most often by people who are not committed users of the program. This is a threshold bug, one that is going to be most serious for casual users, one that will likely go largely unreported precisely because the people encountering it will simply abandon Finale on the basis of this kind of stupid bug. This is why Finale is going down the tubes -- dumb ideas like fixing bugs according to how many people complain about them, instead of evaluating each bug for how serious it is for the people it affects (even if they never report it). -- 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
