Umm...The mid-measure repeat is a PI, yes (it's in the PI menu for me, though...), BUT you're incorrect on Easy Repeats and the First Ending Repeats PI. Those are gone, replaced by more robust functionality in the application itself. The new repeat functionality in Finale 2005 has very little to do with the old PI's, other than making sure there was little or no loss of functionality...
See, we DO sometimes take things that were PI's, improve on the idea, and put that functionality directly into the Application. ;-) For the Record, TSAR was developed by Robert Piechaud (It's essentially a piece of FS with its own UI...) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dhbailey Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 4:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Finale] WinFin06 missing plugin? Aaron Sherber wrote: > At 06:48 PM 10/11/2005, dhbailey wrote: > >Having Text Search and Replace in the Edit menu makes perfect sense. > >The question isn't why it's in that menu, but rather why did it have to > >wait until plug-in technology came along, and even then why was it in > >the Plug-in menu at all, when it's clearly an Edit menu function (at > >least in practically every other Windows program I've ever used.) > > I know you're being somewhat rhetorical here, but of course TSAR was in > the Plugins menu because it was developed as a plugin, not as an > integral part of Finale. (I don't know whether it was developed by > Robert Piechaud, author of FinaleScript, or whether it was based on the > S&R plugin that Jari Williamson wrote.) I'll grant you that someone > coming to Finale 2006 with no prior experience is more likely to look > for such a thing under Edit -- unless they read the promotional material > which calls it a plugin, or read the note I mentioned which *says* it's > under Plugins. I think that MakeMusic will be moving more and more things out of the plug-in menu and into the main menus. The new mid-measure repeats stuff is plug-in material yet they placed it in the repeats menu, as well as moving the Simple Repeat and 1st-ending/2nd-ending Repeat from plug-ins to Repeats. I bet they will do more of that so that more and more plug-ins look like core functionality instead of after-thought. I be they even add a couple of new "tools" which will be nothing but collections of plug-ins moved from the Plug-In menu. -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
