On 11 Jul 2005 at 0:30, Will Roberts wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > > Yes, there *is* a big difference. In Finale, you hold down your > > shortcut key to determine which fingering you want, then click on > > the note you want it applied to. This feels like one step to me, > > since nothing happens until the mouse click. In Sibelius, you have > > to select the note first, then get into text entry mode, then press > > a separate shortcut key (this is two steps), then type the > > character, then adjust the spacing. > > No: hit Esc to stop editing the text in Sibelius, and it remains > selected so you can move it. Then hit Return or F2 to start editing > it again, and hit Space to move on to the next note, type your > fingering number, and so on.
It's still more operations than in Finale, even if you eliminate some of the ones I indicated. With Finale, you don't have to hit ESC to get to the state where the item is movable. -- 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
