Hi List, When I was at the NAMM show, I was lucky enough to run into Beth Sorenson, a lead developer at MakeMusic. (Not sure what her exact title is.) One of the things we talked about was the nature of the text block formatting. I requested that it be made to be a little bit more like a word processor, so that we wouldn't have to create text in another program and import it like Robert is having to do. Improving the quality of the text tool would make Finale much more useful for a lot of users. She and I agreed that Finale wasn't designed to be a word processor, but since the feature is there, it should be made more powerful. My requests were small: making "hard" tabs that aren't related to the font size but rather fixed sizes; adding features such as dot leaders (in conjunction with tabs) so that creating a table of contents is simple. For what it's worth, she listened very intently and agreed with my points, even writing down my ideas in her little notebook, and confirming that the changes wouldn't be difficult to implement. Hopefully we'll see a change pretty soon!
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