At 12:25 PM -0500 2/19/06, Christopher Smith wrote:
End quote. Now for interpretation. 8.5 mm (most readable) is Finale's 100% staff size.
The moral: Finale makes it much too easy to reduce size. Just because you CAN do it doesn't mean you SHOULD do it!
I don't know how point size relates to mm or reductions, but in working with Mosaic I have settled on 20 pt for parts, 18 or sometimes 16 pt for choral scores, and 12 pt for cramming staves onto a score page. One of the composers for our community band uses Finale-out-of-the-box, and his parts are uniformly too small for comfortable reading.
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