At 5:45 PM 07/12/02, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: >Yes, this has been an issue for Jazzfont users who want to type >chords into score. The nicely stacked 7(#11b13#9) chord suffix shows >up as a single character, and I am darned if I can remember which one >it is! THere are 80 or so pre-aligned stacks like this, all under a >single character, and nobody can possibly remember them all, and it >is a huge pain to scroll through the list looking for the right one, >ditto for looking it up on a printout beside your desk.
I rarely use chords, so I'm not familiar with this, but it sounds like the same idea. As far as I'm concerned any item which is going to be selected from a long list needs to have a name which is separate from the actual text. The process which creates the item can have the name copy the actual text as a default, but the user should be able to make a separate name. This gives a lot of flexibility to the user in terms of deciding for himself what keystrokes will call up the item. Something else I don't think we've mentioned yet is that it's quite likely that a comprehensive list of expressions will have more than one with the same text (eg, different typestyle, different playback, etc.). With just type-in-score keyed off the text, you won't be able to access the second one. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
