Ah, perhaps in teaching it is a valuable question. In tech support it is impertinent.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Eric Fiedler <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > ************************************************ > > > > 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
