From: Johannes Gebauer
It still escapes me why this kind of thing cannot live happily in two different tools.
Before the expression tool was improved I could see that there was some overlap between measure text blocks and measure text expressions, however, all these problems are now indeed covered in the expression tool in my opinion, and I see no need to merge the two tools. That is not to say that both tools could be vastly improved.
the similarities in functioning are far greater than the differences, and as long as there are two separate tools the possibility that one will be serviced in a given version and not the other, as happened in F2004, exists. it's only a small detail, but is nonetheless indicative of the non-sense of separation of the tools: calling up the same line spacing dialogue box in the text tool is done with cmd-sh-L but in the expression tool with cmd-L (mac).
...it is unlikely that MM will actually make such a major interface change and at the same time merge tools (to which a lot of people have either objected or don't really follow the need for it), and secondly I sort of feel that merging the two tools is going to make things worse. In fact, I fear that by the end we will have a merged tool with the same design problems we have already, and none of the shortcomings of the text block tool fixed.
most of the needed funtionality is there, but separated/overlapping two tools, it just needs consolidation. it's not the underlying structure of the programme that would be altered, but the interface, so i don't see how things could necessarily get worse. it is not the same situation as with the tuplet tool in F2005, where completely new functionality was incorporated.
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