On 4 Mar 2005 at 10:43, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > The discussion these days seems to center very much "wouldn't it be > nice if Finale did it this way" for many things which I doubt will > actually make things better, at least for me.
You're missing the point of this discussion, which had its origins in a post by a Sibelius user who has problems with Finale. I'm trying to point out things that we long-time Finale users know as second nature (and can work just fine with) that I think fail to function in a natural or "common sense" fashion. So, the kinds of "improvements" I'm proposing probably wouldn't make the lives of long-time Finale users easier to any significant degree (and would probably require a certain amount of adjustment), but that's not the audience my suggested "improvements" are aimed at. Of course, automatic (or semi-automatic) optimization and automatic/semi-automatic multi-measure rests would make *my* life substantially easier, because I've often been annoyed at the way Finale does these things already. And I also think that making independent vertical adjustment of staves within systems a subsidiary feature of optimization is a mistake (why shouldn't they just all be vertically adjustable in the first place, as with lyrics?), as to get an obvious feature (dragging staves vertically within a system) is something you can't get except by applying a feature that is not obviously related to what you want to do (though I agree that in terms of the bigger picture, vertical staff spacing obviously *is* akin to removal of blank staves). So, for me, these kinds of changes would make things easier because they've been stumbling blocks for me in the past. And I also think it would make things substantially easier for new users. I shudder to think how I'd justify the current situation with staff optimization and vertical staff spacing to a new user -- it only makes sense if you already are accustomed to using it that way. -- 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
