I'm coming to this late.. So Finale 2014 doesn't work with quicklook?? That would dealbreak an upgrade..
Steve P. On 30 Jul 2014, at 20:44, Good, Michael wrote: > Dear Dean, > > I thought from previous emails that you had already heard a lot about > keyless scores and were looking for practical advice. In that vein, we've > written about keyless scores in the manual and in our blog: > > https://www.finalemusic.com/UserManuals/Finale2014Mac/Content/Finale/Keyles > s_scores.htm > http://www.finalemusic.com/blog/finale-2014-and-keyless-scores/ > > Scott's blog post in particular details the three major use cases for > keyless scores, and on a practical level I don't have much to add to what > he wrote there. > > My own thoughts on the importance of keyless scores center on the > importance of directly capturing musical semantics in the Finale format. > How computer software represents common Western music notation has been > the focus of my work for the past 14 years, first on MusicXML and then on > the new MakeMusic notation file format. While you could approximate > keyless scores in past versions of Finale with features like chromatic > transposition, it is much more powerful to capture these semantics > directly in the file format. This is especially true when sharing music > prepared in Finale with different digital sheet music applications, which > will become increasingly important to composers and publishers in the > coming years. > > That's more a theoretical and future-looking perspective than a practical > one, so I didn't think it was on point to your question. But that is my > personal perspective on the keyless scores feature, and a big reason why I > called it out in my blog post as a model for the type of improvements we > are looking at for the future. > > Adding forward and backward compatibility has been one of the most popular > and persistent feature requests from our customers for a very long time. > I'm sorry that this led to the temporary removal of QuickLook and > Spotlight functionality. But I can't offer a date or estimate for future > releases or downloads. As a general rule, I will never be able to offer > dates or estimates for future features, bug fixes, releases, or downloads. > What I can do is acknowledge the issue and work with my colleagues to > create ever better products in the future. > > Best regards, > > Michael Good > VP of R&D > MakeMusic, Inc. > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
