I see the announcement on the Forum. The upgrade list is not as
meagre as all that. Some of the better features, for me:
Measure numbers apparently can be controlled differently in parts and
score. Even if this is only font, size, and position, it is a HUGE
improvement! They were not putting this one front and centre, though
I think it deserves the star billing.
The chord symbol improvements seem to be substantial, like attaching
them to beats instead of to items. Two chords per bar over a whole
note, whoo-hoo! Playback and entry are improved, as is the ability to
scale the entire chord symbol without screwing up the kerning.
Auto rehearsal marks (good for us jazz and show guys!)
More control over alternate notation. I don't know what this means
exactly, but I always wanted that to be easier.
Improved percussion notation, entry, and playback. Once again, not
huge amounts of detail, but it seems the dreaded percussion maps
might be easier to deal with, and you can invoke auto notehead
changes (like x's for cymbals) without access to a MIDI keyboard.
A bunch of stupid, stupid bugs are fixed, though the list is
incomplete so I never know if the ones that bother me are fixed or
not. Disappearing staff list expressions whenever you delete measures
was one that just about killed me on a recent project, apparently
fixed. A bunch of idiotic behaviours involving expressions when
copying to different staves or adding staves were fixed. Secondary
beam stubs that point the wrong way (I just ran into that one!) are
fixed. Somebody not from MakeMusic mentioned better importation of
old files - I don't know about that, but it would certainly be nice!
Some good news, at any rate. I'm buying. I can always stay on 2009 if
it proves to be too buggy.
Christopher
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