Re: [Finale] Sibelius usable for excerpt and test examples?
Hi Rocky Road, I should point out that I'm not very familiar with Sibelius 4 (I've downloaded the demo), but I have used Sibelius 3 at the school I work at for producing educational materials. * Hide time signatures and key signatures Yes. * Hide rests Yes. * Measures which allow any number of notes in them (such as a notated scale of eight whole notes without needing to make a 32/4 time sig). Yes, though Sibelius will rigidly enforce the current time signature while you're inputting, so you do have to use a dialog box to tell Sibelius to create a bigger bar. * Move individual noteheads in a measure (eg: to make space at the end of a measure) Yes, it's really easy: just select a note or bar line and drag it, or use a keyboard shortcut. * Exporting of a selection to TIFF or EPS Yes. In my experience at least, EPS export works absolutely fine on Sibelius, but I've never been able to get it to work on Mac. TIFF is also fine. One of the advertised new features of Sibelius 4 is to copy and paste graphics directly from Sibelius to other programs. This seems to work really well from what I've seen in the demo. You select the bar or bars you want to export, choose Edit, Select, Select Graphic, then do Ctrl-C to put it on the clipboard, switch to your other application and do Ctrl-V to paste. It looks a bit blocky from the demo, but the sparse docs with the demo list limiting graphics export to low-resolution as one of the limitations of the demo. Best, -WR ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Sibelius usable for excerpt and test examples?
Rocky Road - in Oz wrote: Can Sibelius * Hide time signatures and key signatures * Hide rests Yes. Right click on the note, choose hide from the context menu. * Measures which allow any number of notes in them (such as a notated scale of eight whole notes without needing to make a 32/4 time sig). Not exactly but once you've hidden the time sig, why would it matter? * Move individual noteheads in a measure (eg: to make space at the end of a measure) Yes. Just drag the note. You will have to outthink the auto formatting but it can be done. You might also consider inputting a note or rest and then hidding it to leave space in a bar. * Exporting of a selection to TIFF or EPS Yes. In v.4 you can now export as a graphic directly to the clipboard and paste into any document that supports graphic pasting via standard windows methods. I am not familiar with Mac but know that similar capability exists. Does Sibelius have this flexibility for measures that are a bit odd in their timing or positioning? Yes. You can easily drag the left end of a stave to any indented position wanted. Dragging the right edge is not so well documented but if you point to the middle line, a little box (handle?) appears which you can then drag to right indentation you want. You can also choose hidden as a staff attribute for any portion of a stave. Right click away any blank part of the page. Near the bottom of the context menu you will find change staff type. Select hidden. Point to where you want to start the hidden stave and click. A selection rectangle appears. You can drag it to any position where you want to hide the stave. Repeating the process but selecting a normal stave will give you a pair of bookends that you may drag in either direction to choose precisely what parts of the stave you want hidden and what you want to be seen. It's much easier to do than to explain. It is worth pointing out that Sibelius 4 also includes a worksheet creator with about 1700 resources that can be used either with a wizard or independently to create worksheets. It's very through and flexible. Richard Smith www.rgsmithmusic.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Sibelius usable for excerpt and test examples?
On 10 Jul 2005 at 15:33, Rocky Road wrote: PS: The huge discussion of Sibelius 4 here is the first time I've seen this list have more hmmm interesting rather than not bad, but no dice posts. I don't remember the tenor of potential Sibelius acceptance ever being as strong here before. Seems to me that most of the hmm, interesting is coming from people who already had experience with Sibelius, and/or who are mostly just considering the dynamic parts, and not the program as a whole. When I delved into it, I quickly determined that I couldn't switch to Sibelius for a number of reasons, none of which had to do with the classic Finale-user criticisms of Sibelius (i.e., restricts formatting choices, or it can't do something Finale can do). -- David W. Fentonhttp://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associateshttp://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Sibelius usable for excerpt and test examples?
I wonder if it doesn't have as much to do with the lousy Fin06 feature enhancement list as much as anything in particlar about Sib4. I for one am certainly disappointed by the Fin06 list. Rocky Road wrote: PS: The huge discussion of Sibelius 4 here is the first time I've seen this list have more hmmm interesting rather than not bad, but no dice posts. I don't remember the tenor of potential Sibelius acceptance ever being as strong here before. -- Robert Patterson http://RobertGPatterson.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
