On 15 Jul 2005 at 0:37, Darcy James Argue wrote: > On 15 Jul 2005, at 12:22 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > In Finale you cannot select the 1st and 3rd of 3 notes in one > > operation. > > But you don't NEED to do this, is my point. In Finale, you can select > *and* apply the articulation with a single click (or drag-enclose > operation). So being able to select non-contiguous notes provides no > absolutely *no additional benefit.* > > If you have to click on a note or block of notes) to select it/them, > you might as well apply the articulation you want *right away*, > instead of selecting multiple non-contiguous blocks of notes and > *then* applying the articulation.
I've already dealt with this: 1. the selection remains. 2. it is easily undoable, either by one UNDO buffer item, or by using the palette to turn off what you just did (or what you did yesterday to the same notes). 3. it makes it easier to selectively remove items that have already been applied. For just plain articulation entry, no, the number of mouse clicks is not fewer. But I would argue that there's not much difference when you consider that you have to coordinate metatool keystroke with mouse click in Finale, whereas you don't need to in Sibelius (of course, I usually just hold down the key and click, so it seems pretty much identical, except for the question other whether you hit the number before or after you start clicking). I recognized that the Sibelius palettes are much more limited than Finale's metatools. But to me, the alternate selection behavior is a big advantage, and partly because it is consistent with non-contiguous selection of items in any number of other user interfaces. Finale simply doesn't provide non-contiguous selection, except for items that display handles at all times. If Finale articulations had handles all the time like expressions, the Sibelius advantage would be gone, I'd say. -- 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
