Richard Yates wrote:
Now, apparently only for reasons of foolish consistency to help berginners,
it has been changed to the Options Menu which makes the shortcut Alt-O-A.
This combination is impossible with one hand. For me the change is an
affront to experienced users.
What's wrong with using
Now, apparently only for reasons of foolish consistency to help
berginners,
it has been changed to the Options Menu which makes the shortcut
Alt-O-A.
This combination is impossible with one hand. For me the change is an
affront to experienced users.
What's wrong with using Shift+Alt+S?
On Mar 16, 2005, at 7:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm working with the demo version of F2005, which does not include any
documentation or online help (stupidly, if I may say so). If I want to
delete the contents of e.g. layer 4 in a given part, In Finale 2002
I'm used
to being able to select
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Show Active Layer Only is no more, apparently.
In Fin2005 it was moved to the Options menu, since it was misleading to
have it in the View menu (it's an option that's stored in the document,
it affects editing and printing).
Bwst regards,
Jari Williamsson
Jari Williamsson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Show Active Layer Only is no more, apparently.
In Fin2005 it was moved to the Options menu, since it was misleading to
have it in the View menu (it's an option that's stored in the document,
it affects editing and printing).
Bwst regards,
dhbailey wrote:
Everything else in the View menu is an Option and some can affect
printing as well (colors, for instance), so why not include them ALL in
the Options menu?
Colors are not stored in the document and they don't affect editing.
Best regards,
Jari Williamsson
On Mar 16, 2005, at 5:43 AM, dhbailey wrote:
If it's called show it should be in the View menu.
Kinds seems that way to me too.
Since it has many more functions, it ought to be renamed to Work on and Display Active Layer Only and then I wouldn't have any objection to it being in the Options
On Mar 16, 2005, at 5:43 AM, dhbailey wrote:
If it's called show it should be in the View menu.
Agreed, but I'd say it shouldn't be called show. The change makes
sense.
This change should have been near the top of the what's new in v2k5
message. They still do that, right?
The real purpose of
Mark D Lew wrote:
On Mar 16, 2005, at 5:43 AM, dhbailey wrote:
If it's called show it should be in the View menu.
Agreed, but I'd say it shouldn't be called show. The change makes sense.
I think the issue might be that it's still called Show Active Layer
Only, despite the move to the Options
but I'd say it shouldn't be called show. The change makes sense.
Other applications such as DP calls such view filter, you filter out
data you don't want to mess with.
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On 16 Mar 2005 at 9:29, Mark D Lew wrote:
On Mar 16, 2005, at 5:43 AM, dhbailey wrote:
If it's called show it should be in the View menu.
Agreed, but I'd say it shouldn't be called show. The change makes
sense.
I don't quite understand why a command must exist on only one menu,
Jari Williamsson wrote:
dhbailey wrote:
Everything else in the View menu is an Option and some can affect
printing as well (colors, for instance), so why not include them ALL
in the Options menu?
Colors are not stored in the document and they don't affect editing.
View Active Layer isn't stored
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Subject: Re: [Finale] removing contents
Keith Helgesen wrote:
Just an aside to this thread- someone mentioned colours.
Often when looking on screen at a score- or especially a short score, I am
aware of how useful it is to have, say, the 'lead' line, or a counter
melody, in a colour. (Or even an obscure entry.)
Even a Solo passage in
dhbailey wrote:
View Active Layer isn't stored in the document, either.
On my Fin2005 at least, Show Active Layer Only is stored with the
document.
Best regards,
Jari Williamsson
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Jari Williamsson wrote:
dhbailey wrote:
View Active Layer isn't stored in the document, either.
On my Fin2005 at least, Show Active Layer Only is stored with the
document.
You are correct, my mistake. What ISN'T saved is that it doesn't open
the document with the layer you had active when
Of course, it doesn't matter, as long as one can find it.
The Menu per se does not matter at all. What does matter is the shortcut. I
have been doing Alt-V-A so long that it is a natural no-look move with my
left hand.
Now, apparently only for reasons of foolish consistency to help berginners,
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