On 18 Sep 2002 at 17:08, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: > At 9:33 AM -0400 9/18/02, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > >Oh, bollocks. This is an instance where Finale is fundamentally > >broken. The default behavior of the copy is one issue alone, an ill- > >chosen default with no sensible alternative. But the real issue is > >that the process is not *reversible*, that once the mistake has been > >made, you can't undo it. > > You can undo past the point where you made the first copy that > created the mirror. . . .
By the time I discovered the problem, it was too late -- I'd already closed Finale. But that's not the point -- I should still be able to undo the problem somehow with the user interface without needing to delete and completely re-assign large parts of the lyrics. Even the unusable mirrors allow you to convert a mirror to real text. The mirrored copied text should somehow allow you to do the same thing, with options of NEW VERSE or APPEND TO VERSE n when you do it. But there's nowhere in the user interface to allow you to suggest a block of lyrics in the score and perform an action on it. I think this is all very, very poorly implemented because the abstracted user interface allows the user to think about the data in a fashion that leads to problems while not actually providing sufficient connections between the representation and the underlying data store to make it safe to do so. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
