On 25 Feb 2005 at 14:18, Christopher Smith wrote: > On Feb 25, 2005, at 12:40 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > > Given the new capabilities of text expressions (multi-line, control > > of automatic placement), why would any one use a measure-attached > > text block, rather than a measure-attached expression? > > Justification. Can't do it in the new text expressions.
Then the solution is to ask for adding justification to text expressions, rather than the Draconian solution of folding the two functionalities into one. > > Measure-attached text blocks *do* overlap in behavior with text > > expressions, but in recent versions of Finale, text expressions have > > been enhanced to the point that I no longer see any use for measure- > > attached text blocks. > > Almost true, but not quite. In addition to the justification issue, > one rarely re-uses text blocks, whereas we often reuse text > expressions, as some have pointed out. Having blocks of dialogue cues > show up in the text expression list would be a huge pain, so it is > logical (now) to enter them as measure-attached text blocks, for one > example. That's a strong argument *against* combining the tools, seems to me. -- 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
