At 6:54 PM -0500 5/25/10, Randolph Peters wrote:
Christopher Smith wrote:
I just heard 2011 for Mac is dropping support for OSX 10.4. It
installs on 10.5 or 10.6 only.
I guess that means that there is even MORE pressure on them to
develop better importation of older files.
According to MakeMusic, 2011 has no changes from the previous
version in file importation and translation abilities.
Don't forget that this is the company that was a YEAR LATE in having
a version that would run on OS X in the first place, which forced our
Music Department to drop Finale and adopt Sibelius. Their strategic
planning folks don't seem to be the brightest bulbs on the tree!
From what I can see, the new lyric "features" are more like playing
catchup with Sibelius, although I can't make a side-by-side
comparison. Infinite verses might better than Sibelius' limit of 5,
for people doing hymn books. And the automatic melisma slurs MIGHT
come in handy, if they can be turned off. But Sibelius can already
switch fonts and sizes almost as easily. And ignoring punctuation
and quotation marks might be a really tiny improvement, but handling
verse numbers would be an even better one.
John
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John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034
(mailto:[email protected])
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
"We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition
of jazz musicians.
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