Per my last email, it does belong where it is. I'd say if you polled all
the people on here, or any musician, it makes perfect sense to have
transpose and a check box to keep the notes there.
Why would I want things in multiple places? I don't see how that would
be a help. I think of Finale as a tool. A powerful tool. I have to learn
how to "play" the tool. I don't expect my instrument to play itself, nor
do I expect Finale to do my music for me. I want Finale to do what I
tell it to do. I think Sibelius is more geared towards your "making it
easier" approach. Not that it is bad or anything.
But back to this transpose thing. I can't think of a place OTHER than
Transpose where one would look if they wanted to shift notes up and
octave and keep the existing notes. The musician in me is screaming
"that is a transpose thing"
David W. Fenton wrote:
I think the feature doesn't really belong in the transposition dialog
box.
I'm not sure *where* it belongs, but that seems like a non-obvious
corner of Finale to put it in. My bet is that the choice was made
based on how transposition is implemented (which probably does
exactly what Dennis described), but this is an example of the "law of
leaky abstractions," where the underlying plumbing is exposed to the
user with no illuminating benefit from knowing what's behind the
scenes.
To me, there ought to be multiple places in Finale where a feature
like this is available. If that were the case, there'd be multiple
possible paths to discovery of a feature one is hunting for.
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