Re: [Finale] Sibelius usable for excerpt and test examples?

2005-07-10 Thread Robert Patterson
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 m

Re: [Finale] Sibelius usable for excerpt and test examples?

2005-07-10 Thread David W. Fenton
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.

Re: [Finale] Sibelius usable for excerpt and test examples?

2005-07-10 Thread Richard Smith
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 tim

Re: [Finale] Sibelius usable for excerpt and test examples?

2005-07-10 Thread Will Roberts
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

[Finale] Sibelius usable for excerpt and test examples?

2005-07-09 Thread Rocky Road
A big use of Finale for me is for short, single-line notation examples used either as part of some teaching notes, home-grown theory papers, or part of a question in an exam. To do this I utilize the following abilities in Finale: * Hide time signatures and key signatures * Hide rests * Measur