David W. Fenton wrote:
Yes, and I still say that the addition of it is a *good* thing -- it's simple to implement and improves usability. It's not at all the kind of bolted-on feature that requires lots of work to implement and benefits very few.
I agree it's a good thing -- I just don't share the MakeMusic marketing department's idea that it's a noble feature that should be made a lot of in their promotional material about the upgrade.
It seems too much like a carnival huckster's trying to keep the audience's attention focused on one particular thing so it doesn't notice that the rest of the show is just so much junk.
My wife and I were looking at houses years ago when we were deciding on whether or not to buy the house we were renting, and we were weighing the pros and cons of whether we could both teach music lessons and I could have an instrument repair area. We were trying to consider things in a serious manner, weighing the pros and cons, and the realtor(tm) kept babbling on about how the light fixtures came with the house, as if she didn't want us to realize it wouldn't be a good fit for us.
So nowadays when we see such "Pay attention to what I'm showing you and don't look too closely at anything else because it's terrible" things, we just look at each other and say "and the light fixtures actually come with the house!"
Just as light fixtures are important in a house and textured paper background may be very helpful for relieving eyestrain for those who work a lot in page view, making a big splash about it in the promo for a pricey upgrade is so much "and the light fixtures actually come with the house!" market-speak.
It makes me wonder what they're trying to draw our attention away from. -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
