On 5 Jul 2005 at 22:31, Ken  Durling wrote:

> OK, just looked at the Finale "Insert measure" dialogue, (as per page
> 14/6 in the F2K manual) and it's really no different from the 
> Sibelius Create>Bar>Other (or Single multiple times) which allows you
> to insert any number of measures  of the time signature or in a
> different one.  Am I missing something?

Can you insert notes into the middle of a measure that already has 
some notes in it? Is there a cursor that tells you where notes will 
be inserted?

I played with the Sibelius download and found it extremely 
frustrating. It was like Finale Simple entry from 5 versions back. 
Maybe I was doing it wrong. It wasn't the note entry that was 
frustrating but the horridly mouse-based methods for applying 
articulations/expressions.

And then the inability to format the layout of the score after I put 
in the notes (how could I know what adjustments I needed to make to 
layout until *after* I'd put the content into the file?), and I just 
gave up.

For all those who claim the Sibelius UI is so intuitive, I'd like to 
hear an explanation. Was I unable to find the methods for 
accomplishing basic things (i.e., bad UI), or is Sibelius simply 
unable to do the things I was puzzled by (i.e., badly designed 
application)?

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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