dhbailey schrieb:
If Finale would make include some templates which are predefined for
various house-styles (Henle, Breitkopf&Haertel, Boosey&Hawkes,
G.Schirmer, Schott, Carl Fischer, Southern Music, Rubank, whatever) with
libraries which include more common dynamic marks, more common tempo
marks, all the common expression marks such as rit., accel., full words
as well as abbreviations, slur settings, tie-end settings, beaming
conventions, they could go a long way to improving a lot about Finale
which leaves beginners looking at not-so-great output and veteran Finale
users having to scramble to make their own such templates.
Then for programming, all they would need to do to improve this area
would be to add a "Change Underlying Template" feature which would make
use of whatever code Patterson's Copy Settings plug-in (I think it is
his plug-in) used and whatever else would be necessary to open a new
template and copy _everything_ exactly as it is in the original file,
but with the new settings of the new template.
Well, it would require one addition: Custom text fields in the File
Info, which can be used as text inserts. That's what I have been saying
for years. The extra fields in the file info, plus a plugin which can
transfer all the music easily to a new template, that's all that is needed.
(The reason that it needs those extra fields: Otherwise you cannot
include Titles, copyright notices, etc in the house style, and that
would not go far enough.)
Johannes
That would go a long way to equalizing Sibelius' "House Styles" and the
ease with which they can be changed, as well as helping veteran Finale
users who find that they need to change major aspects of a project while
in the middle.
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