On 31 Jul 2005 at 16:10, Darcy James Argue wrote: > And, in my opinion, Finale GPO Edition should not have included *any* > non-keyswitched strings. It's just too confusing. Most people have > no idea what a "keyswitch" is, nor do they care. They just want to > hear "pizz" when they write "pizz", and "arco" when they write "arco".
I *think* I understand what "keyswitch" is, but could you explain it? I just wonder why Finale didn't build in functionality to ignore expressions with playback definitions that duplicate those that are defined for HP. It seems to me that the "law of leaky abstractions" is showing through here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html That is, the wires and underpinnings are showing through in the user interface, in a way that requires you to understand how things work below the surface in order that you correctly navigate the user interface that controls those factors. Perhaps this is a version 1 problem -- i.e., these kinds of things will get cleaned up in the next Finale release based on user input. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
