what you said about Spreadbury in the yahoo list you can say about both
Finn twins in the official sibelius list - usually being the first people
to reply, and sometimes replying to the list after 21h on sundays.
Yes, Daniel Spreadbury's presence on that list has been one of the
greatest PR moves that any company could have made.
Many Finale users have long requested such a presence on the Finale list
but to no avail.
The Sibelius group is a very upbeat group, but then long-standing bugs
in the program don't seem to exist -- they're addressed when they're
discovered, if not in an interim update at least with the next version.
that's a bit too optimistic. usually sibelius launches 1 update (usually
coinciding with the launch in other versions than english, around 6 months
after each release). and some bugs (and let's say some shortcomings of
certain features, which technically aren't called "bugs") usually are
worked out in the next version, but not all of them. many small details
remain to be dealt with for some time.
And one of the biggest selling points of all with Sibelius, in my
opinion, is that the last two versions have included the ability to save
a file in the format of an earlier version, making backwards
compatibility possibility without jumping through hoops. So somehow
they have stabilized their data format to allow such an action, which
would be wonderful if Finale could match.
that was always possible in sibelius, even with versions of 10 years ago,
when it ran only in Acorn machines. (I never tested this feature)
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