For a variety of reasons, I wanted to start from scratch. Your points are all good ones, however.
My problem was not leaving the Score Manager open on another monitor. That would have been more efficient than closing it all the time. -Randolph Peters On 2012-09-10, at 11:42 AM, SN jef chippewa <[email protected]> wrote: > >> complete each staff and fill out all the properties (names, >> abbreviations, positions, fonts, MIDI settings, etc.) > > these should be largely set up in your default doc and you would only > need to change a few exceptional instances > >> My question for the list is would it be a bad idea to be able to >> access the same window or dialog box from different places in the >> program? Or would that be too confusing? > > opt-doubleclick (mac) staff name handle in SC, you are directly in > the editing box for the instrument name (from page 1, the full names, > any other page the abbreviations) > > select staff name handle in the score, hit return, you are in the > staff attributes dialogue > >> And while we are at it, how about a previous and next arrow so that >> we can fill out the categories in one pass? Even iTunes has a better >> interface here. > > i would porefer a key command to go to the next instruments rather > than having to do so much mouse / menu work... > >> When MM changes Finale, as they need to from time to time, they >> absolutely have to be mindful of: > > absolutely! but i think it is in this case still possible to do what > you want, no? > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
