68: It is impossible to have two brackets of the same type in
different
horizontal positions, as for example when a divided string section
uses
extra staves.
This is still fiddly to do, and we should have better automatic
support for it.
Fiddly is a bit euphemistic. At least as of Sib. 3, this is the
behavior:
Sibelius allows three different types of brackets, each of which can be
assigned one and only one horizontal position. To get "two brackets of
the same type in different horizontal positions" you must sacrifice one
of the three types by making its appearance identical to one of the
others. You might, for example, replace the desk bracket with a piano
brace, so that two of the three types would be piano braces; you could
then assign one horizontal position to one piano brace, and another to
the other.
The problem is: what if you need a single type of bracket in *three*
different horizontal positions? Or what if you really need three
bracket types, *and* one of them must be placed in two different
horizontal positions? Sibelius simply won't let you. At least Sib. 3
and earlier won't; I know nothing from Sib. 4.
Another Sibelius flaw, unmentioned in the long list quoted in this
thread, is its inability (as of Sib. 3) to break secondary beams. To
me this is a deal breaker all by itself, though I do keep a copy of the
program to edit the occasional Sibelius score that comes my way.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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