At 5:14 PM -0400 7/3/10, David W. Fenton wrote:
I read your comment as "in comparison to Sibelius," which if I recall correctly, is much more rigid with the way it allows you to size systems.
No, I wasn't really comparing it. It's just always struck me as a temptation in Finale to shrink things to avoid going over onto an additional page. And I wouldn't call Sibelius' approach exactly rigid. One click takes you to Document Setup, you choose inches, points, or millimeters, and then there are a bunch of choices for staves, margins, and staff margins.
I actually preferred Composer's Mosaic, in which you not only could but had to specify staff size (in points). Once I learned the sizes I wanted it was a breeze and I set up templates. And like Sibelius, the staff size controlled the size of other things on the staff as well, which I guess is pretty standard.
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