Responding to part of what I wrote
Personally, I just don't see enough benefit to such a merger to justify this proposed combination.
Jef rejoined
there is overlapping (and inconsistent) functionality, and important weaknesses in both tools. combining the tool would certainly not hinder your work.
I don't have much problem with combining tools; to some extent, this is
already the circumstance in the Text tool and Lyric tool, as the "Edit
Lyrics" and "Edit text block" use the same editor. True, the text
expression editor uses a different lyric tool, but my sense is that the
different functionality inherent in the expression and articulation
tools, which have possible playback considerations which the lyrics tool
and and the text tool do not need, together with the typically smaller
size of expressions, when compared to lyrics and text blocks, makes
programming these with a separate tool more expedient.
It seems to me, though, that you seem to be proposing the merging of
the underlying data structures, too. In the Finale file, expressions,
and text blocks are in separate parts of the file. If, indeed, you mean
to suggest combining the underlying data structures, this is where I do
not see the benefit.
As far as my comment,
3) the inability to address the text attributes sequentially, by stepping through the list; and
and your request that I elaborate:
Select the "Text tool menu", and the "edit text" option. In the version
of the "edit text" dialog box that opens, in the lower right hand
corner, just above the "help button (WinFin 2k5b) is the legend "ID 1",
just to the right of which is an up and a down arrow. By using these
arrows, one can edit the any text block one chooses, though regardless
of whether one wishes to edit block 5, or block 99, one has to always
start from text block 1. I would like it if this could be changed so
that one could go directly to a specific block, as one can go to a
specific measure number in scroll view, or a specific page in page
view. The ability to select a specific text block to edit, without
starting up and going down the list starting with block 1, is what I
meant by item "4" in my list. As to the types of changes I might with
to make to text blocks 250 through 259, an example would be if I had
thought a word was spelled a specific way, and discovered as I was doing
block 260, that it was done another way, and needed to go back and
change the spelling of the word in those blocks. As far as changing
fonts, imagine that for good reason, I want to change the fonts in just
those ten blocks, for example, because I intended to enter them as
"bold", and entered them as "italic" by mistake, and that there exist
other blocks that are in italic, that I want them to stay in italic.
ns
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