If by "tweaking" things, you mean adjusting the placement of individual
items in the music, simply click on it and either drag it or use the
cursor keys to move it.
If you mean "edit" then you can do a lot of that under House Style menu,
Edit Text Styles -- to Sibelius expressions are just a special type of
text, not an entirely separate thing.
One thing that takes some adjustment in converting to Sibelius is having
to stop thinking of things in "Finale terms."
David H. Bailey
Bruce Clausen wrote:
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have bought the Competitive Upgrade
from Sibelius, since we can do that this month for half price. The
softward arrived yesterday, so I am just getting used to the
differences. Because I used Simple Entry in Fin the differences aren't
all that great. What I do like about Sib is that I can access many of
functions with a mouse click, where in Fin I would have to drop down a
menu and select. On Fin's side, I don't yet see in Sib the ability to
tweak things, e.g. hairpins, expression placement, slurs, etc., but this
may be that I haven't yet found the means of doing so. So far, I
believe that Sib is more the way I like to work . . . but it is way too
soon for a really informed judgment.
Bruce Clausen
----- Original Message ----- From: "Johannes Gebauer"
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Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: Finale '08
On 10.10.2007 Daniel Wolf wrote:
Would it be possible now, from the list membership, to get a more
accurate sense of the number of us who are (a) a long-term,
professional users of Finale, (b) have serious concerns about bug
fixes, and (c) iare either skipping an '08 upgrade or switching to a
competing product during this cycle?
I believe I do qualify for a, although I don't use every aspect of the
Finale package.
I have had serious concerns about bug fixes for a long time.
And, although I haven't decided to not buy Finale 2k8 (I may have to
for compatibility reasons), I will not buy it yet.
I do have serious concerns about the future of Finale in general. My
being thrown out of the beta team is one of the reasons, as I can only
guess about the reasons for that. And for some reason I have the
feeling it has to do with some company policies on bug fixing.
We have witnessed many software packages die because they came second.
My feeling is that Finale is loosing the battle right now. All
Sibelius now need is a real plugin interface and some serious third
party plugins.
The reason Finale is loosing the battle is bugs. 2k7 was a catch up
version, but Sibelius has not been asleep. Had Fin2k8b been a bug fix
version, all would have been well. But now I feel it is probably too
late.
Johannes
http://www.musikmanufaktur.com
http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de
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