On 9 Jul 2005 at 17:06, Ken Durling wrote: > At 01:48 PM 7/9/2005, you wrote: > > >How? I don't know how to create a metronome marking. I can choose > >your sequence of commands, but I have no idea what I'm supposed to > >type to get a valid metronome mark. Q=158? If I go to the Sibelius > >Demo help file (which is remarkably stupidly provided as a > >phenomenally slowly-loading Java applet, instead of either as a > >Windows Help File or as HTML, and one that even more stupidly copies > >the horrid interface of Windows HTML Help), I get no help on this > >topic. But I do find that Q=158 actually works. The problem, of > >course, is that I'd *never* want that appearing in a score -- I'd > >want the quarter note symbol. I haven't a clue how to insert that. > > When you R-click in Create>Text> Metronome Mark , you get a context > menu that has a Q note, as well as others, which you can select and > then follow with =158 or whatever.
Ok, I can do that, after about 10 tries. The problem is, yet again, there is no clarity whatsoever to the insertion point, which, for whatever reason, doesn't appear until, well, I don't know when it appears. It appeared at a certain point, and once it was there, I could right click and get the context menu. After I started typing? After I doubleclicked? I don't know. What I do know is that this behavior for typing text is completely foreign to any program I've ever used, of any kind. There is no model for this kind of behavior that I'm aware of. And I feel like I'm skating on thin ice, not having a clue what results are going to happen (this would not be so bad if the undo were more sensible -- I find that I almost always have to undo several times to undo what seems to me like a single action). Also, I haven't even mentioned the fact that I can't tell where the item is going to end up, so I always need to move the item after creating it. If I click and drag, it takes about a full second for the item to move. That's bloody ridiculous. > >Likewise, the real thing that should be happening is that I should be > >able to define my tempo markings (like Allegro Vivace) to control > >tempo. I understand the concept of the dictionary (I think), but > >can't seem to get it to work reliably in having tempos set by them. > > > > > . . . Ctrl-right or left arrow will move you > > > measure by measure where plain arrow goes note to note - just > > > like the old Wordstar command. Pretty basic. > > > >Wordstar! I haven't used Wordstar since the 80s, and it wouldn't at > >all occur to me as a model for navigation commands for playback. > > Well, my point is that every word program since has used the same > commands. Ctrl as a magnification of a command is a basic Windows > principle. ??? Why would word navigation be an obvious model for moving the playback starting point? -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
