On 14 Jul 2005 at 21:37, Tyler Turner wrote: > --- "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Finale requires the same number of mouse clicks if > > you metatool > > applied to each individual note. But the result is > > as many UNDO > > buffer events as there were mouse clicks. In > > Sibelius, you have the > > same number of ctrl-clicks as Finale has metatool > > clicks, but when > > you apply the articulation, it's one item in the > > UNDO buffer. > > Which can be a another big reason to prefer the Finale > method as well. Make a mistake in Sibelius, and you > are undoing all of them. . .
But they are *still* selected, so it's not hard to apply the correction. > . . . Make a mistake in Finale, you > correct the mistake then and there. Try to select a > bunch of notes in Sibelius, screw up your selection by > accidentally letting up a little too much on the ctrl > or shift key, you're left to reselect everything. I don't seem to have that problem, myself. I *do* have problems with drag selection in Finale, often missing the first note. > Finale, you hit escape to close the stupid > Articulation dialog box. When I work with Sibelius, I > don't do a large amount of non-contiguous selection > for this very reason. > > It's a great thing to have! Don't get me wrong. But > the undo buffer can go either way. But I think the real power is in the fact that the selection once defined is static, and editable (i.e., you can add or subtract notes from it as needed). With Finale, it's all or nothing between starting point and ending, and with articulation metatool mass apply, the selection is gone once you release the mouse button. I would like to see a better, more consistent implementation of partial measure selection in Finale, as well as the ability to do non- contiguous selections. Having that capability in partial measure selections also implies the capability to do it with full measure selections, meaning that you could select measure 4 in the piano right hand and measure 6 in the violin and perform the same operation on them. Wouldn't that be useful? It certainly would be for me! -- 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
