Hi Robert, Well, it certainly seems to have made _you_ go ballistic (or am I misreading you?) ;-) But I can't agree with you on this one. In over 40 years of teaching, I've found the question "Why would you want to do that" — which, by the way, comes across much friendlier face-to-face than in the cold world of cyberspace-text — to be invaluable. It forces students (or anybody, for that matter) to justify departures from a tried-and-true tradition — just in case they're on a "newness at all costs" trip (happens a lot at a certain anti-establishment-age) where they risk losing the many benefits of a communal tradition. Where we _can_ agree is that when a composer/arranger has a _really good_ reason for such departures — Stravinsky liked to experiment with the placement of music and text on the page, for instance — then Finale should let us do it. As probably the first Finale user on this side of the pond (version 1.0; anybody remember that wonderful nightmare?), I hadn't realized that individual staff reshuffling was possible in earlier versions, and I completely agree with you that it was thoughtless (to say the least) to take it away from us. Eric ************************************************ Habsburger Verlag Frankfurt (Dr. Fiedler) www.habsburgerverlag.de eric.f.fied...@t-online.de ************************************************
On 29.08.2012, at 22:51, Robert Patterson wrote: > Eric, the worst question to ask someone (if you are providing tech support > or if you are developing software) is any variant of, "Why would you want > to do that?" It drives users ballistic. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
