Christopher Smith wrote:
On Apr 16, 2008, at 8:39 AM, dc wrote:
dhbailey écrit:
Why we can "add measures" at the end without ever knowing what a
"measure stack" is yet we can't insert "measures" we have to know
that we really want to insert a "measure stack" escapes me. Either
we're adding or inserting a "measure stack" (which appears to be
Finale's attempt to remind us that it will insert a pile of measures
in each staff of the score) or we're not. Why not have both the Add
and the Insert called the same, since we are indeed working with
"measure stacks" in both instances?
Thanks, David. I was trying to add measures before a selected measure,
and only realized after that they were added at the end. I ended up
inserting a "measure stack", indeed, and was also a bit surprised by
the term!!
Yup, "measure stack" is an invented Finale term (like "tuplet", which I
still insist didn't exist before Finale used it!) to differentiate
single measures in one staff (or a group of staves) from single measures
that include ALL instruments. It was in the What's New section...
I can understand that they felt they needed a term to clarify that
actually deleting a measure or inserting a measure acted on all the
staves in the score at that point. I have no problem with that, if it
really helps.
My gripe is that they allow us to add "measure" but we have to insert or
delete "measure stack" -- in other words they are inconsistent in their
own use of their own term. When we add measures, we are adding them to
all staves the same as when we insert or delete, so why haven't they
used their precious new term for that menu item as well? It gives the
appearance of that menu item acting differently since it's a different
term, when in fact it simply puts the measure stack at the end of the
file, instead of acting at the location of a selected measure. It's
still acting on a measure stack.
It's just one more example of how poorly thought through their user
interface is (and becoming more and more so with each new version, in my
opinion.)
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David H. Bailey
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