On 17 Sep 2005 at 15:27, Darcy James Argue wrote: > On 17 Sep 2005, at 3:06 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > OK, this UI is just fine, after all. I wonder why displaying the > > names is not turned on by default? How could it be an inconvenience? > > 1) Because the bars with names are very large, and if you have > multiple staff styles, they quickly get in the way of the music, . . .
OK, I can see how having many staff styles could be a problem, though I can't imagine having more than 3 at a time applied to a single measure on a regular basis. Seems to me that it would be a problem only rarely. And it could be fixed by MakeMusic if they just put them closer together (instead of using the same vertical offset for the first one from the staff as the spacing interval between staff style bars). > . . . even > if you make them a very light gray (which IMO they should be by > default). Well, the coor is not a very hard thing to change. I don't mind the blue at all, as long as it's transparent, though I do see that once you have the words turned on, gray is a better color for them, as the words seem to make the blue ones less transparent. > 2) Because, in Finale 2006, they are no longer transparent -- they > draw *on top* of the music. (One of my least favorite 2k6 bugs.) Well, that's a bug, and needs to be fixed. > 3) Because even with the names off, it's easy to find the name of a > staff style bar -- just right-click the bar. That's one I just didn't know about. Where do you all pick up these things? I guess I missed all of this because of not upgrading until a few versions after staff styles were introduced (I think they were introduced in Finale 98, and I had just bought 97, so I didn't upgrade until version 2003). -- 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
