On Oct 21, 2005, at 7:52 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 21 Oct 2005 at 18:09, bill wrote:
I'm
still on 2k5 and the Update Layout issue should not be an issue since
it was never a problem since Fin 98 (ish) up until recently. This is
only one of many that MM doesn't seem to want to fix or even
recognize.
I'm not understanding your point.
Are you saying that updating the layout *doesn't* update it?
Or that it isn't updating it properly?
Or simply that you believe you shouldn't have to tell Finale to
update the layout (which you don't, if you turn on automatic layout
update)?
What exactly is the issue that MakeMusic has not fixed? I don't see
one here -- all I see is a program design issue that trips up some
people for about 5 minutes until they realize that they have to do
something to get the layout updated.
--
David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc
I feel really stupid: My Automatic Update in 2k5 upgrade was unchecked
after many years of assuming that upgrading to the next "invaluable"
version of Finale would preserve previous and relevant settings.
However, I *do* have major problems with the direction that MM is
going, and I feel that you are ignoring and dismissing my sentiments
with that. Even though I was incorrect in my last assertion, the issue
with layout update should *never* occur, and that option should never
be available, given the results rendered without it.
I am happy to debate you. You decide whether or not you want to debate
here "in the open" or privately, or not at all. That's up to you.
I have owned my copy of Finale from the very beginning (very low
3-digit serial # back when putting a staccato on a note took more than
10 menu selections). I can be brainless sometimes, as in this case I
admit, but I am not stupid, and I am trying to find some way to coerce
MM to spend 10 minutes and fix a long list of problems that they have
continued to ignore for years.
The most obvious now it the new Text Expression Editor, which looks
wonderful on the surface (and should have been done 10 years ago), but
their extremely poor concept of dealing with text still remains, and
some of the features are lost or poorly done...including baseline shift
not behaving in the editor window as it does on the page, and, from
what I hear, line spacing not working in 2k6 at all.
I am happy to give you my list when I have some time to write it, but I
am busy with a ballet which goes on stage in mid-November. The list is
very long, and very nit-picky to some, but I don't think it is
unreasonable, and easily solvable if MM actually cared about us
professionals instead of marketing to music "wannabes". Personally, I
would be happy to pay $2000 for a music notation program that actually
worked and was stable, than to pay $5000 over the course of 10 years
for something that is "almost" OK, and is always slightly better than
the competition and doesn't really work very well, and with chronic
problems that are never corrected.
As far as Update Layout is concerned (it used to be called "Recalc
Music" in the early days), that should have been included as part of
updating the preferences with the new version. In the early days,
there was no "Automatic Update Layout", and I am so used to doing a
"command-\" every few measures that I didn't think about it at this
later stage of Finale's existence. I know that it's a small detail,
but our business is made or broken in the details.
I welcome your comments, as well as those from anyone else.
Bill Duncan
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