On 14 Jul 2005 at 18:31, Tyler Turner wrote: > --- "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, I don't find this at all difficult in the > > Sibelius 4 demo. I can > > select and entire measure and apply an articulation > > to all notes. Of > > I can click a note and then shift-click any > > additional notes, then > > apply an articulation. > > > > This latter allows non-contiguous selection, which > > would be quite > > useful to me in many cases. Yes, Finale allows you > > to apply > > articulations to a particular rhythmic value, but I > > often need to > > apply to some notes of a uniform rhythmic value > > (such as a da-yat-dit- > > dit pattern in 8th notes). > > > > Sibelius actually makes this much more flexible and > > easy than Finale. > > I get quite a bit of use out of SmartFind and Paint > for this type of thing.
??? Well, that's a feature I'd never seen before, but it seems to me that it hardly relates at all to the scenario I outlined. First off, it only works for copying from existing music to music that is similar. Useful as that is, it is completely orthogonal to the problem I was describing. Yes, if I had many measures of da-yat-dit-dit I could set up one measure and the copy to all other measures that I wanted the same articulation. I could also do that with simply mass copying restricted to articulations and slurs. But none of those speed up the setup of the original measure. If it's got two da-yat-dit-dit's in it, in Sibelius, I can ctrl-click the 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 8th noteheads and apply the stacatto. I can't do this in Finale without two steps. Of course, if I have multiple homorhythmic staves one above the other with the same articulation, I can select 2 & 3, and do it for all the staves, and apply the articulation, then select 7 & 8 for the same set of staves and apply the articulation. So, that's something that likely Sibelius can't do without a copy operation, or with fussy Ctrl-click mousing. But it's only an advantage for homorhythmic passages in multiple parts. The Sibelius non-contiguous note selection behavior is much more user-friendly, in my opinion, than Finale's partial measure selection, which I've never found very useful (because I can never quite predict which subdivisions I'm allowed to select, and how to get the particular partial measure selected that I need). -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc All non-quoted content (c) David W. Fenton, all rights reserved _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
