Can you stack articulations as Ligeti does? > On 11 Oct 2018, at 23:14, Robert Patterson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > David Bailey said: "it stacks the articulations as it feels they ought to > be." > > Actually, it stacks the articulations based on their order in the > Articulation Selection dialog box. If you want them to stack in a different > order, you can change their order in the list and they will automatically > stack in the new order. This may or may not be behavior that is desirable, > but it can be exploited if you understand it. > > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 3:11 PM David H. Bailey <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Fin25 / Fin26, you say potatoes, I say potahtoes. Not much difference >> that I can see. >> >> I just tried a quick experiment to see how wonderful the new automatic >> placement feature for slurs and other articulations works, and I have to >> say that it does what it claims to, although hardly the big deal around >> which to build a whole-number upgrade. >> >> Yes that does make multiple articulations much neater by default. But >> it stacks the articulations as it feels they ought to be. If we want >> them stacked differently we still have to drag them as we've had to do >> in all previous versions of Finale. >> >> Looking at the list of what's new in Fin26, there is the comment: >> "Palette. The Simple Entry Rests Palette is now one of the default >> palettes displayed when launching Finale." -- Did anybody really suffer >> from having to actually manually have the Simple Entry Rests Palette >> display whenever Simple Entry mode is used, or setting Finale to have it >> display all the time if we so wished? Hardly worth a whole-number upgrade! >> >> "...the return of the Maestro font Lead Sheet template" -- so putting >> something *back* which should never have been removed in the first place >> is something we have to pay for? Especially aggravating, given that we >> had to pay for the upgrade where they removed it in the first place! >> >> No, I see nothing making this a worthwhile upgrade for anybody who is on >> Finale12, 14, 14.5 and definitely not worth the price for someone >> working in Finale25. If a person is on a much earlier version of Finale >> then this will offer a lot of improvements, but beware, some >> long-standing bugs (read Giz's message) are still there >> >> Unless the articulations were driving you batty, in which case you may >> feel it's worth the $150 upgrade fee. I'm with Giz Bowe on this -- it's >> the last upgrade for Finale I'll be buying until they do major >> improvements to the program. I notice that they don't appear to address >> the numerous complaints about the linked score/parts and what is linked >> and what is unlinked. >> >> Gone are the days of the mind-blowing, new-feature-rich upgrades of the >> past, where we could suddenly do something that previously had been >> impossible or at least very difficult. >> >> >> >> -- >> ***** >> David H. Bailey >> [email protected] >> http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected]
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