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. -- 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
