Now I am confused as to what the original question/problem was. Using
transpose to transpose a line and keep the original notes? If you look
in the Index, under COPY, and read it, it doesn't do that. It moves
stuff from one place to another. However, if you looked under OCTAVES,
it says right there "Octaves see Transposition dialog box 27-46"
The Transpose box is pretty straight forward as well. I really don't see
how this constitutes a "cascade of failures" in the program. Of course,
I suppose reading the manual about what the little "preserve original
notes" does is too much to ask..........
Seriously, if you are going to use a program, you need to read the
manual to fully use it. I thought I knew a lot about Finale, but after
READING Bill Duncan's Finale stuff I learned a few new things.
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 09:19 PM 1/4/06 -0800, you wrote:
I think the authors have dealt with it perfectly. Kept it like it's
meaning. It hasn't taken on a new character at all. Transpose
transposes. It's not going to do my laundry. Nor would I expect it to
want to KEEP the original notes unless I told it I wanted to.........
It's not about what it does. It's about what makes it effective within the
context of the software. There are several veteran users who have looked
right past it all these years, never registering what it meant or that it
might have been something we were looking for. An adjustment of terms would
nicely accommodate this previously unavailable action without referring to
the documentation which doesn't index it anyway!
It's not those who 'get it' that clarify; it's those who fail to 'get it'
that do that. I'm not arguing this as a fine point, but as an example of
the *cascade* of failures that demonstrate the need for a full-scale
overhaul of the program's plane of contact with its users.
Dennis
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