On Jun 25, 2005, at 10:10 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
I know I am in the minority here, but I confess I prefer Finale's default beaming to that produced by Patterson Beams.
I felt that way about Patterson Beams when I first tried it, but a client cared about that "white wedges" stuff, so I started using PB. Once I figured out what it was doing, I tweaked the settings to come up with a result that I do like better than Finale's default, and now I use that all the time.
I think if you're discussing the results produced by Patterson Beams, you can't separate that from what settings you use. I don't even remember what the original defaults were, but I do remember that whatever the numbers were when I first loaded it, they frequently made, on a large interval, a steep-angled beam that I found really ugly. Once I adjusted the number that addresses that -- I don't even remember what it was -- I was happy. Now I almost never need to tweak a beam, whereas without PB I did from time to time.
But I still don't care about white wedges.
As for automatic features, I don't like *any* of them: they don't allow for the engraver's judgement, and they form a constant risk of undoing, e.g., one's carefully customized note spacing.
I completely agree about that. I think engravers who are detail-oriented enough to customize their spacing all feel the same, but I think most Finale users don't much care about spacing, so long as it's halfway decent.
I feel similarly about automatic corrections and formatting on MS Word. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
