On 18 Jul 2007 at 13:51, dhbailey wrote: > 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.
But he didn't enter half the music! And my bet is that the in-measure spacing for the flute part did not take Dennis very long (though he may have had to manually define the measure widths). -- 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
