Hi Rocky Road,
I should point out that I'm not very familiar with Sibelius 4 (I've
downloaded the demo), but I have used Sibelius 3 at the school I work at
for producing educational materials.
* Hide time signatures and key signatures
Yes.
* Hide rests
Yes.
* Measures which allow any number of notes in them (such as a notated
scale of eight whole notes without needing to make a 32/4 time sig).
Yes, though Sibelius will rigidly enforce the current time signature
while you're inputting, so you do have to use a dialog box to tell
Sibelius to create a bigger bar.
* Move individual noteheads in a measure (eg: to make space at the end
of a measure)
Yes, it's really easy: just select a note or bar line and drag it, or
use a keyboard shortcut.
* Exporting of a selection to TIFF or EPS
Yes. In my experience at least, EPS export works absolutely fine on
Sibelius, but I've never been able to get it to work on Mac. TIFF is
also fine.
One of the advertised new features of Sibelius 4 is to copy and paste
graphics directly from Sibelius to other programs. This seems to work
really well from what I've seen in the demo. You select the bar or bars
you want to export, choose Edit, Select, Select Graphic, then do Ctrl-C
to put it on the clipboard, switch to your other application and do
Ctrl-V to paste.
It looks a bit blocky from the demo, but the sparse docs with the demo
list limiting graphics export to low-resolution as one of the
limitations of the demo.
Best,
-WR
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