In a message dated 7/30/2010 10:01:07 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:26:01 -0400 From: Darcy James Argue <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: Finale Unicode support To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi John, You need to understand the facts on the ground here. MakeMusic has had a yearly release schedule since 1996. Finale 2011 was just released. It does not support Unicode. The next major release will be Finale 2012, which will most likely be released 11 months from now. In all likelihood, that is the earliest that a major new feature like Unicode support could conceivably be introduced. Cheers, - DJA Thanks, Darcy. I do understand, and from everything I've been told, such a changeover is a big deal. Hopefully they'll be able to pull it off by the next release, which would be in time for us to accommodate Finale as an option for users of our forthcoming Understanding Tonal Music. And now that ChordSymbol is being used in developing three other major college music theory textbooks, such an update to Unicode would be very much in MakeMusic's interest. Let me reiterate too that although MakeMusic has thus far basically ignored me, accommodating the functionality of our premium-quality Unicode chord symbol fonts in their Unicode implementation of chord symbol entry would give Finale a distinct advantage over Sibelius. This will be all the more true once we complete the first Unicode "handwritten" chord symbol font for jazz, which we might call JazzHand or something like that, sometime this fall. Cheers, jrc Dr. John R. Clevenger, Manager The Virtual Conservatory 50 S. Patterson Ave., #203 Santa Barbara, CA 93111 Phone and fax: (805) 964-7988 (for fax, ignore answering machine) Email: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) Web site: _www.virtualconservatory.com_ (http://www.virtualconservatory.com/) _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
