David W. Fenton wrote:
On 18 Jul 2007 at 12:01, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
The spacing on mine is still in draft mode, but yes, it is spaced by
hand. All automatic features are turned off, and the work is being
done in page mode with the measures pre-locked via "fit music".
Well, my point is that while the basic overall layout is matched, the
details of the music are not nearly as finished as yours. He didn't
even enter the music for the bottom half of the page.
What bothers me other than the overall not great look of the music
font (and many outstandingly bad details, like the rests I mentioned)
is that the spacing of the notes in the flute line is so *bad* --
it's neither metric nor set by the widths of the characters. Any of
Finale's default spacing algorithms looks better than that, so it
bothers me that two hours of work on the Sibelius page produces such
widely varying spacing. It's not that it doesn't replicate yours, but
that it isn't internally consistent with itself (which yours actually
is, and which Finale would make happen automatically).
And the Sibelius person spent 2 hours while Dennis has admitted spending
4 hours -- who is to say whether or not the spacing would be precisely
what Dennis achieved in 4 hours, if the Sibelius person had spent 2 more
hours doing it.
The point is that what Dennis was trying to do is possible in Sibelius
just as it is possible in Finale, complaints about the appearance of the
font notwithstanding. This off-the-cuff comparison of the two programs
should go a long way to dispensing the notion that Sibelius can't handle
modern scores. With those extra 2 hours (remember that Dennis is being
paid for the 4 hours he put into that single page while the Sibelius
person isn't) I'm sure that the Sibelius rendition would be just as nice
as the Finale version (font issues aside).
I, too, hope that the Finale people are monitoring this list and are
aware that they really don't have much (if any) advantage over Sibelius
anymore. It's time they stop resting on their laurels and work to
regain that lead which they have let dissipate.
--
David H. Bailey
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