On 14 Jul 2005 at 22:30, Tyler Turner wrote:

> --- "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > 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!
> 
> Yes! It would be useful. I hope I don't seem to be
> debating that. . . .

And the way Finale has implemented the Mass Edit tool makes it more 
likely that such a feature could get implemented, I think.

> . . . For what it's worth, Sibelius won't let
> you select measure 4 and measure 6 - same staff or
> not. It allows non-contiguous entry selection or same
> measure different staves, but not different measures.

It allows you to ctrl-click any notes that are visible onscreen, but 
they can be on any pages of the file, even ones that you've scrolled 
offscreen.

I'm not sure that's real-world useful or not, because here the page-
based display really gets in my way.

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