On 22 Mar 2005 at 22:39, John Howell wrote: > At 4:04 PM -0500 3/19/05, dhbailey wrote: > > > >There is a way to do what you want, it's just that Finale > >programmers haven't figured out how to do it. :-( > > > >My bet is the first notation software which does that (Sibelius, > >Finale or the newly developping Notion software from > >http://www.notionmusic.com which may give these two giants a run for > >their money) first will eventually be the last engraving software > >standing. It will be such a huge time-saver that everybody using > >anything else will jump ship and begin using that program. > > Sadly, not at all the case. Composer's Mosaic did exactly this, > automatically and instantaneously, from the very beginning. The key > may have been that score and parts are all part of the same file. > > The downside, of course, is that a mistake entered in EITHER score or > parts is instantly transferred to the other, so checking the score for > an error in the parts is a waste of time.
I'm scratching my head here over exactly what the problem is with this potential circumstance (it's sounds ideal to *me*!), nor how it differs significantly from our present situation with Finale. Was it not just a few days ago that we all chortled over the musician in rehearsal who said it couldn't be a wrong note in the Finale-produced part because it was the same note in the Finale-produced score? And don't all of us attempt to minimize to the greatest degree possible any edits to the musical text that have to be done after the parts are extracted? Is it not the case that many people make the correction in the score, then copy the single system and paste it into the previously extracted part? Would this not duplicate in the part any errors entered into the score? Where's the problem here? To me, it's a completely desirable goal, one to be praised not feared. -- 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
