I bought it because it could make notes from midi (it did so, but i could do nothing with the midi but listening to it). I could not manage to have a page layout, it went all on 1 line. I could not make an upbeat on the 1st mesure. It was tedious to place text on the notes. The only thing i could do was running the examples (in Musixtex, if i can run the examples, i know enough to start edit the music).
I got help by a friend, but he found a nice pagelayout not important and so on. I did not much effort to learn it, because the output is inferior to Musixtex. I see music sheets made by Finale with only 1 musicline on the last page, with no slurs on the notes and so on and if there are errors on it (this one is no exclusivity for Finale users) they usually are corrected with a pencil. Andre But i realise there are mouse minded (and younger?) people who prefer wisywig editors. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 2:06 PM Subject: Re: [TeX-music] I want your tests On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 08:03:27 +0100, Andre Van Ryckeghem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Andre >(who did not know Finale was for free. > I believe there is a scaled-down variant (with seriously limited functionality) that one can download for nothing. The full version still costs a mint, though. >I bought it once and could not work with it) I'm with you, Andre. I tried Finale once and hated it. Half of the gradient of the learning curve involved in mastering it seemed to result from the programmers' insistence on flouting every single Windows convention they could find (like which functions to put in which menu, like allowing one to delete things by selecting with the mouse and hitting the "Delete" key) and on burying basic, frequently needed functions five levels deep in the menu hierarchy and making the user wade through reams of PDF documentation to find out where exactly they'd put them. I took one look and decided that if I was going to be facing a steep learning curve anyway, I'd just as soon have a learning curve that wasn't 50% due to poor design, and I'd just as soon not pay for the privilege! The rest, more or less, is history... Eva Downloadable guitar edition of J.S. Bach, Lute Suite BWV 995: http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/scores/bach/bwv995/bwv995cg.pdf -- "People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style." --- Matthew Arnold (1898), quoted in David and Hilary Crystal's "Words on Words" (2000) _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
