On 24 Feb 2005 at 0:10, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > There is > no reason why I would want my title text blocks appear in the > expression list, it would only convolut it more. OK, I know that you > have ideas on how to get more organization into these lists. > > I have been thinking about this several times now, and I still don't > see why I would want text blocks and expressions be merged into one > tool. In what way would I then get faster results? In what way does > this increase our flexibility?
I tend to agree with you. What I *would* support is if the text expression dialog's text box at the top were instead replaced with the standard Finale text editor. Then you could put anything in the text expression that you could put into the text editor, and the user interface would be exactly the same in both places. Text expresssions would then be text blocks with additional expression-only properties added to them. How they are actually store, well, I couldn't give a rat's ass! This all goes back to my subclassing argument about how I think expressions and articulations really ought to work. In the scenario I've described, text expressions would be a superclass of text blocks, inheriting all the capabilities of a standard text block (and the same way of editing and manipulating them) while adding the properties necessary for expressions. -- 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
