On Oct 15, 2007, at 4:11 AM, dhbailey wrote:
I'm still waiting for Finale to "fix" it's "improved" Fin2k8 speedy entry tool so that ctrl-3 (top-row number key) initiates triplets again. Why they would change that escapes my ability to understand. But with the professed aim of doing away with the Speedy Entry tool as a separate tool and incorporating it into other tools (I would guess mostly into the Simple Entry tool) they may not fix it at all as it stands now.
Wow, I didn't know about that. I'm curious. How *do* you enter a triplet now, if opt-3 doesn't work? I'm not sure I'd know any other way. Surely you aren't forced to go to the mouse and pick the tuplet tool??
In spite of my few quibbles, I'm fairly content with the Finale that I'm using right now. I see little reason why I would want to upgrade Finale *or* switch to Sibelius. It makes little difference to me if versions 2007 and 2008 are buggy, since I'm content to stay with the v2004 I've got. I rarely do parts and I rarely use playback, so the linked parts and various audio enhancements mean nothing to me. The few fixes that would make a difference to me are things that even a responsible and responsive Make Music would likely have little interest in. (I tend to want *more* control over arcane spacing details that most users never tweak at all. At the same time, some of the time-saving features that others love are wasted on me if they are for things I like to tweak or specify anyway.)
That reminds me of one other Speedy question. Did they ever fix it so that when the cursor is at the end of a frame the Enter key works on the previous entry? This one fix alone might well inspire me to upgrade, even if it means turning off smart hyphens. It always baffled me why it isn't this way in the first place. Every other speedy key works on the prior entry. Why shouldn't Enter work, too? Especially since it would be an enormous time save in entering chords.
For me, the disappointment of MM losing interest in Speedy entry is not that they might drop it (which wouldn't affect me if I don't upgrade anyway), but that they make no effort to improve it (which might have inspired me to upgrade).
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