At 06:40 AM 6/20/2007 -0400, dhbailey wrote: >But in general, the notation aspects of Finale are very mature and there >isn't all that much room for improvement.
Whaaaaaaa? Please do me this: http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/waam/lunar-cascade-june.pdf (Yeah, I had one day both to compose and notate this sucker since it's part of my WAAM project, so it could be better.) Or Stockhausen's 1961 "Refrain". Or stuff from the collection "Notations" or if that seems too old and quaint and nobody does that anymore, then try most scores from the 2006 collection "Sound:Visions" where by golly they do still do notation that isn't stuck. Or even staggered barlines. Or without kluges, unmetered music or beaming over barlines (why shouldn't the Speedy "/" just toggle that natively?) or or or or... Finale is "mature" like Brahms is mature: Dead. Both managed to miss most of more than a century's worth of notational growth and change, and is now focused on marketing geegaws. I know most of the folks on this list are perfectly satisfied with Finale's notation choices, but if the music doesn't conform to these choices, by gosh it's hard to do even simple tasks and nearly impossible to do anything complicated. There isn't all that much room for improvement? Hah. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
