Mr. Pattersons's point about Michael Good, and MakeMusic's staff in general, is well taken.As I said in my previous post, Finale -- and its hosts -- have come a very long way; even backin the day I can't say I would have wanted to use any of the other apps out there, so I shouldbe more courteous about those who've worked hard to bring us to where we are. MichaelGood is the only person I've ever heard of who has had any responsibility for Finale as adeveloper. I've always felt this was very unfortunate, in part because of this list: there arelots of very keen, inventive users whose acumen deserves the kind of nod that comes whenthose behind the Wonderful Oz's curtain step out and let themselves be known. Perhaps theyhave and I'm unaware of it, but I've been lurking here for many years, and haven't had asense of any connection at all. I know little about Michael Good, and all of what I've found out has come through my exposureto the SMuFl effort and the development of Bravura (I sure wish someone would reply to mypost about OpenType, though I guess there's not really much to say). I suspect Mr. Good'sinvolvement in SMuFl may have been behind the upgrade to unicode for specifying musiccharacters. (Now… how about the TEXT fields?!?!?!). But he's only one person -- however astute -- and I hope he will have enough clout to shapefurther development in ways that address the needs of high-end users, because I'm not hearinganything about that in the press release: I'm hearing about profit points, maximization,investments, and all sorts of other business claptrap that gets bandied about by businessmenwhile they turn their Great Business Minds to matters they don't understand. So Michael, BE GOOD. We need you. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
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