Darcy James Argue wrote:
... show me *any* other application, of any kind, that deals with
fonts and does not have a dedicated Font menu or Font panel.
Sibelius's way of working may seem "logical" in retrospect, but it's
totally unlike anything else out there. It's not just different from
Finale, it's different from *everything*.
I agree.
As a long-time Finale user I knew I would have to devote new brain
cells to learning Sibelius, but I hoped that the Mac way of doing
things would help me out. By the Mac way, I'm talking about exploring
the menus, memorizing the keyboard commands along the way, and
generally seeing what happens. (I read manuals for fun, but starting
there is like asking for directions. Not cool.)
It took me a couple of days just to figure out how to put in slurs,
dynamics, articulations and other text items with complete control
over font, size and appearance. Most of these things don't appear in
the menus in the Sibelius 6 demo.
Now that I know how, it is easy, but it was frustrating at first. And
surprising too, given how often we hear that Sibelius is so intuitive.
I'm just saying...
-Randolph Peters
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