On 4 Jan 2006 at 22:04, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > Now I am confused as to what the original question/problem was. > Using transpose to transpose a line and keep the original notes? . . > .
That's precisely the problem here -- you've redefined my original problem to match the Finale map. I had no need for transposition -- I only wanted to DOUBLE an existing line, adding an octave to what was already there. > . . . 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" That is no help with the concept of doubling. Granted, there is an entry under DOUBLING that refers to transposition, but, apparently, when I saw it I said to myself "that can't possibly be what I'm looking for, since what I'm doing has zilch to do with transposition" -- I honestly don't remember having encountered any entry in the index under DOUBLING, which is definitely the task I considered myself to be doing. > 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.......... Doubling at the octave has nothing to do with transposition. > 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. There are plenty of software programs that I use all the time that are non-trivial but that have discoverable interfaces, organized and presented in such a way that I never need to use the manual to accomplish the tasks I want. There are also programs I use that have excellent help files that are linked and cross-indexed in such a way as to make it extremely easy to navigate to exactly the point where the explanation I need is found. Finale lacks both. -- 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
