On 17.08.2006 Robert Patterson wrote:
Don Hart:
> Robert, what are your continuing concerns? Others, to what extent do you
> use mirrors and how does the tool actually perform?
One of the biggest was one that Johannes says has been fixed. Smart shapes did
not mirror.
Actually, that is not correct. Smart Shapes did mirror, but they were
lost when extracting parts, and the warning only showed up after
extraction (I could never see the logic in that). However, the
workaround was easy enough, as a final step before extracting, select
all and convert mirrors. This step seems no longer necessary, although I
have not tried extracting, nor printing parts. But everything looks good
on screen in part view.
I guess for me the value is not apparent. Copy and paste is much easier than
mirrors, and by the time I am ready to copy and paste, the chance that I'll be
revising again is small. Also, I am completely uncomfortable with making
changes the results of which I don't see on screen, yet that is exactly what
can happen with mirrors.
Well, I only use mirrors for parts which are identical. The typical
situation is an 18th century manuscript, where the second violin part
just doubles the first and is not even written out.
I never used partial mirrors, though, and hardly ever any of the other
options. Yet, I find the benefit of being able to see the full score
right from the beginning, and deciding what can be mirrored while
entering the notes, immense. Mirrors are simply great for this kind of
thing, but they are definitely only worth the effort for longer passages.
I never use mirrors to mirror a repeated passage, I find that indeed
copying works better for that. The amount of thinking necessary to use
them for repeated passages is too much for me...
Johannes
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