On 14 Jul 2005 at 19:25, Tyler Turner wrote: > --- "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > Mass copying articulations and slurs doesn't cover the > major functionality of SmartFind and Paint. SmartFind > and Paint looks for exact rhythmic matches. This means > you can set your source, highlight a large area (such > as the entire score), and apply the paste - it only > pastes onto exact rhythm matches.
I didn't say it was the same, only that it didn't help accomplish the task I was saying Sibelius made easier. I don't yet see anything about the Smartfind and Paint functionality that would make it into something I'd ever use, as exact repetition of this nature is not something that the music I work with uses very often. And in my piano quartets, I couldn't use it because I'm reproducing sources, so at the time I'm entering I don't know that I could be copying a corresponding passage from somewhere else. > > 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. > > I'm not sure I understand. In Finale, you wouldn't > select the notes first. You'd just hold down the > articulation metatool and click the notes or drag > select regions at a time, right? No matter what it > seems like Sibelius has at least one extra step - > after selecting you press the keypad key at least once > (assuming the articulation is on the current keypad). Well, I don't see much difference. One can shift drag in Sibelius to select a sequence of notes and then just hit the key pad for the item you want to apply. And the selection remains selected so you can then add another attached item, if you like. My point is that Finale only allows a range of notes. If you start on beat 1 and end on beat 3, beat 2 is included. Sibelius allows you to select beat 1 and beat 3 without selecting beat 2. This is a useful feature. The number of keystrokes for a range of contiguous notes really is the same. The only difference is that you don't do the mouse drag and keystroke simultaneously. This isn't much of a difference in terms of the amount of time involved, and it has the advantage of allowing you to apply a second note-attached item. But there is no non-contiguos selection in Finale. You have to do multiple selections to accomplish in Finale what I described above which, yes, requires mutiple mouse clicks to select, but that still ends up being easier than the Finale method. I also find that I have some problems with defining the selection area in Finale and sometimes miss the first note in a passage I'm trying to select. -- 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
