Thomas, Yes. Opinions of the suitability (let alone quality) of one program over the other are all relative.
If you read postings to the Score list, you will see that the really "professional" engravers would not touch Finale with a barge pole. They use Score instead. Also, there a publishers who, for reasons of internal politics or sheer ignorance, insist on re-doing the typesetting with no improvement - or even degradation - to the final result. I have personal experience of the latter. Miles Dempster On Wednesday, February 9, 2005, at 05:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Dear Alain and others, > > being a programmer by myself I highly appreciate the work and effort > put in > programs like Django or Fronimo. I would call both of them professional > products which during the time I followed their development moved far > above > the initial purpose to simply enter tabulature and which today stand as > programs which provides us an easy to handle way to enter complete > scores. > I've checked other programs as Encore (now incorporated in Finale) and > Finale which in detail may offer a number of features which are not > possible in "our" programs (at the moment - giving the dilligent work > will > continue). There seems to be a tendency (as you already deteced) to > rather > use expensive programs instead of programs better suited for a certain > purpose. Again I think there are certain habits and prejudices which > create > preferences for the one or the other program. One of this prejudices is > "Finale is a mighty program and best suited for professional editions". > This might be true in most cases but not necessarily for every project. > Finale is not made for tabulature editing and it's painfull to enter > tabulature there. > To tell a story: > A while ago I offered to enter some music (modern lute songs - in > Fronimo) > for an edition but after finishing it I was told my settings would lack > certain features and the complete project should be re-entered in > Finale > (which I didn't want and quit my participation within the project). I > was > finishing my work on the project in 2001 and felt happy about this. The > edition in Finale is not made until now. > > Best wishes > Thomas > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
