At 02:58 AM 11/6/2007, keith wrote: >A friend of mine, good muso, great clarinettist, has just obtained Finale >Notepad. > >He rang me just now to ask why Notepad wouldn't work in 5/4 time. > >but surely any commercially produced notation program should work in 5/4- or >maybe not!
I believe your friend is correct. In Notepad, you can't change time sigs in the middle of a piece. You can only choose one time sig, during document setup, and 5/4 is not one of the choices.
Keep in mind that while Notepad is a "commercially produced" program, it is also completely free. It's a little surprising that Makemusic didn't include 5/4 as one of the available time sigs, but of course that's their right.
Maybe your friend should purchase one of the other versions of Finale and then take advantage of the 30-day money back guarantee if he doesn't like it. I'm pretty sure you can change time sigs in all the other versions.
Aaron. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
