On 4 Jan 2006 at 13:34, Andrew Stiller wrote: > On Jan 4, 2006, at 7:29 AM, dhbailey wrote: > > > Jim Mays wrote: > > > >>> 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. > >> > >> RTFM > > > > 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.
I use the transposition dialog ALL THE TIME. But I DON'T READ IT. Why? Because I already know what's there. Obviously, I *didn't* already know what's there, but I *thought* I did (because of familiarity) so the option to preserve the original notes was invisible to me. Retrospectively, I can understand why the feature ends up in the transposition dialog. But I cannot construct a logical path to that destination without first knowing that the feature is associated with transposition. That association is not at all obvious to me. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
