On Jan 4, 2006, at 7:29 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Jim Mays wrote:
RTFM
In the transpose dialogue box check "preserve original notes." Then
transpose by an octave and you'll get the old and the new pitches.
How counterintuitive is that? It never would have occurred to me to
notice that.
While I'm not quite sure that having it in plain view in the transpose
dialog (and having been there for many years now) is counterintuitive,
I would say that trying to figure out how to find such a thing in the
FM is possible.
Not knowing what it's called or where it's located, how would you
suggest we find it in the FM? There's no entry in the index for "Keep
Original Notes," there's no entry in the index for "Preserve Original
Notes," there's no entry for "Add Notes At The Octave" and there's NO
entry under "Transpose" in the index at all for either Keep or
Preserve Original Notes.
Quick Help/Dialog Boxes/Transposition.
Since Quick Help is in any event much more useful than the full manual,
maybe we should say RTFQH.
At the very least, anyone who ever uses the transposition dialog (and
isn't that everyone on the list?) will see the "preserve original
pitches" option staring them in the face every time the dialog is open.
It may be counterintuitive, but one may well ask why intuition is
required here in the first place.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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