dhbailey schrieb:
I agree with Johannes that things such as house styles (or Finale
style-sheets or whatever they want to call them) which can be altered,
saved, and then can be applied to any Finale file for instantaneous
appearance changes without having to copy the music to a new template
are not things that seem to be on MakeMusic's radar as being helpful in
generating more sales.
Although I do for the most part agree with you, the discussion with
David was on a slightly different subject: Some time ago I was trying to
find a way to change house styles in Finale easily. In the process I
discovered there were certain shortcomings (especially I needed more
custom fields in the File info to use for text blocks), but altogether
only small additions were needed to make this possible, plus a plugin
which would do the copying business quickly and efficiently.
David argued that house styles would be much more flexible if some of
the fundamental basics of Finale's internal workings were redesigned. To
which I reply, the much I would like to see this, it simply won't
happen. Not the way that MM approaches updates. So I personally think it
better to request something that I think may work with much less work on
MM's end, than to request something which requires a complete redesign
of Finale, which I personally believe won't happen, unless Finale
changes owners.
On the other hand, I think you (David) are making a very good point, and
it mirrors my own concerns. Personally I think that the whole GPO thing,
even if it is perhaps welcomed by a larger proportion of Finale users
(which I personally doubt), was actually a very easy way for MM to get
away with the yearly upgrade process this year. For me the benefit is
very limited. I am looking forward to MacOS X improvements, but they
should have been in the 2k4 maintenance update. For me 2k6 is mostly a
bug fix of 2k4.
I really hope that 2k7 is going to be a major update. I hope they will
sort out
- bugs with Engraver slurs (WYSIWYG!!)
- vertical spacing
- clefs after the barline (ie key/meter) at the beginning of a system
- cue notes via the mirror tool
- dynamic part linking in one way or another
- house styles in one way or another
- a redesign of Speedy (to allow entering artics and slurs from within
Speedy)
In this order.
Johannes
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