On 18 Oct 2006 at 23:26, shirling & neueweise wrote: > From: "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > From: "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >One of my main arguments is that Score's design and UI means that > >> >it can never be widely used by anyone but the most dedicated > >> >engravers and computer users. > >> > >> i don't find this to be a bad thing. it may be that score > >> **should** concentrate on a higher end "market" and let finale and > >> sibelius shoot it out in the lower realm of notation programmes. > > > >It *is* a bad thing, and the evidence of that is that Score does not > >have a Windows version and that its last update was 7 years ago. > > i don't see that the two points are related.
Well, Dr. Phil always asks "How's that working for you?" and it doesn't appear to be working too well for Score's market share (let alone "mind share"), which makes it rather unattractive as an alternative to the widely-used notation programs. In other words, concentrating on too small a market may leave you with too little revenue to continue to produce updates and improvements in your software. Which seems to me to be exactly what happened to Score. > > > > > you can't change the vertical order or the > >> >> horizontal positioning of the articulations in > >> > > sibelius... > >> > > >> >And in Score? > >> > >> everything is individually definable/moveable. > > > >As a class of objects, or just one by one? That is, could you adjust > >all or a group of the dynamics in a single staff with one adjustment? > >Or all of a particular articulation throughout an entire piece? > > you can search and replace, so i would guess that specific > positioning of a specific articulation could be replaced easily. But you have to know what to search for and what to replace it with, or there's a UI for that? > >Possible does not mean doable. > > well, as i said, i'm no expert, i looked at the programme with > someone for around 2 hours. if you have any more questions it might > be best to ask on the score forum. I'm not really interested in Score per se -- I'm interested in why you're going on a campaign denigrating Finale in favor of Score when you don't seem to know a whole lot more about it than I do. > >And the reason there's no interference from the marketing department > >is because there *isn't* any marketing department. You don't seem to > >think this is a problem, but I really *do* see it as a major problem. > >Without a large user base, there's no money for development. > > > >Score is the perfect historical example of this fact. > > you seems to assume that score intended from the start to have a large > market. this may not have been the case. what you as a non-user > think the score developer or community should do is possibly of > interest to them. you could ask on the score forum to find out. Again, I'm not interested. But I don't want to invest my time and energy in engraving my music in an application that is not long for this world. I don't see any evidence that Score is going to ever have a Windows version -- they've been promising that for at least a decade now, seems to me, and there's still nothing. It's not like Windows programming is something new nowadays. When the user community is so small it can't support development of a new version, that tells me it's probably not large enough to justify using that software. > > > the best-known (i think there are a few others): > >> http://scoremus.com/products.html > >> http://home.att.net/~tom.brodhead > > > >I reviewed the first of those afterwards, and they all seem like > >utilities that get you around the deficiencies caused by a page-based > >paradigm. I didn't see much of anything that really seemed like it > >offered anything but features that should be built into Score by > >default, without assistance. > > yes, but i would believe that these would be incorporated into the > next version. I believe that the new version of Score will include a pony, solve world hunger and sell 1 million copies. -- 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
