At 9:21 PM -0500 7/7/05, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
What can a Sibelius "House Style" do that one cannot do with a Finale template?
Ummm, save you the time and knowledge base needed to create your template? I, for one, don't speak EPVU or whatever the heck it is! It's my son who investigated Sibelius, not me, but my understanding from him is that the House Styles give you instantly available setups, but that the program also gives you the ability to change the default settings in those setups. I may be wrong, but that's a BIG time saver, especially since when Sibelius first became available for U.S. platforms the default settings in Finale were absolutely dreadful. (And yes, I've been on the list long enough to have seen the discussion of "nobody's presets are going to give me exactly what I want, so I'm going to have to tweak everything anyway." That's a valid argument for a professional engraver. It is NOT a valid argument for the average Finale user, who just wants to get his music printed and IS going to use the default settings.
Mosaic's single "house style" was never chageable, but it was never necessary to change it because the people who designed it had the intelligence and the skill to make it acceptable and professional looking for the naive user like me. Yes, I did change the measure spacing from the too-wide default, and to get good page turns, but doing so was trivial. It appears that Finale developers never cared, but Sibelius developers definitely did.
I find it amazing that ANY notation program can turn out near-professional product in a field that was developed by monks writing with feathers!
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