Hi Allen, This is just to add a voice to what Phil Shaw wrote below. After the fact global style changes which could be applied to existing files would be a great boon.
Chuck At 10:41 AM -0700 5/1/02, Phil Shaw wrote: >Hi Allen, > >Your request for suggestions on defaults gives me a chance >to hop on a soap box for my main wish-list item. > >You seem to be thinking in terms of improving the >hard-wired defaults. What I'd like is a "style" >mechanism that lets a user develop a set of defaults. > >You probably just said "we've got that with templates". >No. What I mean by a "style" mechanism is one that >lets you specify a style after-the-fact. Something >like the "Cascading Style Sheets" or XSLT in HTML. > >E.g. I've got a library of over a hundred songs in >Finale, and every so often I think up a way to make them >more readable. E.g. I recently switched to Jazz Font, >and that was a multi-week painful process. With a >style mechanism it should take an hour or two to >develop and test the new style, then an over-nite >run to apply it to 100 files. Another example, >I recently realized I should leave wider margins >on the right, for two-sided printing (and 3-hole >punches). > >I would think that after-the-fact style changes >would be a common need. I'm currently dealing with >a publisher who has all sorts of requests for character >fonts, spacing, etc, that will be a big hassle to >do a document-at-a-time. > >Warning: this is the sort of mechanism that >programmers will commonly say "can't be done", >but in fact turns out not to be a big deal. > >Thanks for asking, > >Phil Shaw - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://okshaw.com >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham WA 98225-5836 (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
