I'm keeping older eyes in mind. That's precisely why I asked if I could optimize out non playing staves so that I can fit one more system on a page so that a page turn is made easier, if not "perfect." I'd prefer to keep the larger staff size, rather than reducing it another 5 or 10% so that I can definitely squeeeeeeeze more music on a page.
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Christopher Smith < christopher.sm...@videotron.ca> wrote: > > On Sat Jul 3, at SaturdayJul 3 3:27 PM, Ray Horton wrote: > >> Just how difficult should Finale make it to reduce the size? Should >> warning bells go off if the user selects too small a percentage? >> >> Finale makes it easy to reduce to 10% or enlarge to 999%. At some point, >> we need to have the common sense of the user (or the style sheet of a >> publisher, since you have a complaint with a particular publisher) be a part >> of the process, not more limits on a notation program. >> >> snip > > >> This is the first time I've heard anyone ever complain that software was >> too easy! >> > > > Actually, I have complained about it for a while, and Dennis B-K, but a > local hand copyist put it the best: "Now that it is so easy that any idiot > can push the button, he does!" > > You know what I mean; easy things should be easy, and hard things should be > hard. Maybe they should put a huge crank on the side of the computer that > you have to turn by hand; unusual procedures make you break a sweat, while > normal things you can give it a spin with two fingers. > > End rant. > > Christopher > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
