>I thought I was replying to the list, but apparently I was not.  Here's
>another copy to the list.  Please change the settings back to where they
>were!
>
>
>>On 16.04.2002 2:26 Uhr, Dan Carno wrote
>>
>>> Generally, I prefer to work in Sibelius because it is far more intuitive,
>>> and requires less tweaking to make things look good; but Finale's drawing
>>> capabilities are terrific.
>>
>>Well, that is not fair to Finale: It is true that the factory settings in
>>Finale leave a lot to be desired, but once you have set up good default
>>files Finale doesn't require a lot of tweaking at all. The problem is when
>>you want to change the "house style", this is where Finale really has
>>weaknesses.
>>
>>Johannes
>
>Our music department adopted Mosaic in 1994 and subsequently switched to
>Finale in about 1998, because of more favorable pricing for our students,
>as far as I know.  (They are required by our university to have a minimum
>package of communications and applications programs, and our department
>further requires majors to have--as of now--Finale.)  Our department head
>has about had it with Finale and the difficulties our students are
>consistently having in making it work.  He is seriously considering
>adopting Sibelius.
>
>With great respect to the power users who are so wonderfully helpful in
>this forum, what we need and what almost everyone in music needs is a
>program that produces professional looking copy right out of the box in an
>intuitive manner that anyone can quickly learn.  No tweaking.  No default
>file fiddling around.  No needing to add plugins or write them in order to
>do things the basic program should be doing for you.  I belong to the
>overwhelming majority (outside this list, at least) who couldn't write a
>plugin to save my life.  I am a computer user, not a computer programmer.
>I probably use less than 5% of the capabilities in ANY program I run,
>because to keep selling upgrades the programmers keep adding to what the
>programs will do.  I don't need those capabilities.  In fact I'm sure I
>don't even know about them.  The same thing is true of Finale.  I will
>never need and never use 90% of its fancy bells and whistles, and neither
>will our students.  Sibelius sounds better and better to me for what the
>average musician, not the professional engraver, needs in a program.
>
>John
>
>
>John & Susie Howell
>Virginia Tech Department of Music
>Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
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