On 12 Oct 2006 at 13:26, shirling & neueweise wrote: > From: "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Er, is there a version of Score that is newer than 15 years old? > > At 15:56 +0200 10/10/06, Thomas Weber wrote: > >According to what I find on my installation disk, the latest version > >(4) was released 1999. A number of Score users still sticks to > >version 3.1 which dates back to 1993. Some like it more than version > >4. > > a windows version is apparently 95% ready, but has been awaited for > around 7 yrs.
A typical software scenario -- the last 5% takes 95% of the effort. > most users state that the programme is already so > complete that an upgrade has not been needed, and for some things that > are not addressed fully by the programme itself, there are several > developers of corrective programmes. > > admittedly this sounds very similar on the surface to anything any > user of finale or sibelius would say, but on the whole, score users > are **very** happy with the programme itself and with the support, > which comes directly from the original developer. My experience with Score users is that they have a version of Stockholm Syndrome, having adapted to the oddities of Score so much that they seem them as advantages. > i encourage anyone who takes notation and publishing seriously to at > least look into score... which was from the start designed with > engraving in mind, rather than popular market trends or superficial > and non-**essential** aspects of interface. I haven't seen Score output recently. It used to be vastly superior to Finale (even done by a gifted Finale engraver). But I always found it extremely difficult to use, and not very helpful for new engraving, as the page layout had to be completely fixed before you started engraving. -- 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
