Le 06-08-29 à 21:20, Aaron Sherber a écrit :
I don't think it's fair to think of these as new limits. If you
liked your old way of working with lots of separate parts files,
then you can keep doing exactly that in Fin07, with no additional
restrictions. I also don't think it's fair to expect linked parts
to let you do EXACTLY what you want -- no matter how well thought
out a feature may be, some user will always want something
different. (FWIW, I think Finale's implementation of this is *much*
more flexible than Sibelius's.)
I just don't want people to think that I criticise MakeMusic just for
the sake of it. When I was reading the documentation of Linked Parts
in the online docs, I must say that I was impressed at how well
thought of it was generally speaking. But the limitations were also
striking me. I don't think it's unfair to expect Finale to continue
to produce scores that look like what I have decided them to look
like. Linked Parts is a great idea. Why would I have to choose?
Of course, there will be a lot of improvements done in Linked Parts
before I actually use it in real scores, but in the mean time I will
never stop experimenting and finding solutions and new ways to work
while maintaining the same quality.
How many times have I read people laughing at Sibelius users because
there were no way to adjust this or that parameter, not having full
control on the music. That's where we are now with Linked Parts. But
I am very confident that forthcoming improvements will get over this
too.
>Isn't it strange that almost (All?) all unlinkable items containing
>fonts (typeface, style and size) are not modifiable by design.
I think it's unfortunate, but it's not strange. I think MM set out
to offer many more choices in their implementation of linked parts
in terms of linked vs. unlinked and overriding default behaviors
and so forth. The problem was that once they started, it became
pretty clear that just about everything ought to be unlinkable, for
maximum flexibility. The problem is designing a UI that makes sense
in terms of letting the user make the changes and then signalling
that something is unlinked. Where they didn't have time to come up
with an appropriate UI, they basically just forced that item to
always be linked.
I agree that it's highly desirable for fonts (in expressions,
measure numbers, etc.) to be unlinkable. I think MM just ran out of
time in which to implement the feature itself and the user interface.
This is how I see it too.
Aaron.
Eric Dussault
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