On 19 Sep 2002 at 7:13, Robert Patterson wrote: > On Thu, 19 September 2002, "Dennis W. Manasco" wrote: > > > A database that allows itself to be > > irretrievably corrupted through reasonable user actions is a pretty > > fragile database. > > I agree with this statement, but I do not agree that Finale's lyrics > implementation conforms to it. It is true that many users have this perception > of Finale's lyrics implementation, but the perceptions stems from a failure to > understand (and master) that implementation. . . .
"Understanding" of the UI should be sufficient. In this instance, of the of interfaces (type in score) suggests a kind of understanding to the user that is counter to what is actually going on, yet is not designed in a way to account for those differences. > . . . I've yet (in recent times) to see a > situation where clearing and re-assigning did not clear up problems, which means > it isn't "irretrievably" corrupted. Furthermore, with understanding and > forethought, you'll never run into the problem in the first place. I was able to clear my problem and get the results I wanted. I will avoid lyrics whenever possible, however. This ate up far too much time. > Someone said that the implementation is geeky. It *is* geeky, but (as Mark Lew > eloquently stated) it is very powerful. Sometimes geeky is okay, even if it > requires a little more thought than we'd like. Geeky is one thing. Deceptive is another. > The reason I say we must accept it is that the implementation is fundamental. > Lyrics by definition (inside Finale) are assignments from sylabbicized text. I think that an implementation that *forces* that on a user is a bad implementation. > There is no option of an "option". The other option would be text expressions, > or else to glom on some new kind of lyric that is essentially a text expression. When copying a block of music, appending copies of the source lyrics to the end of the existing lyrics for the relevant verses strikes me as a completely viable option, one that makes musical and UI sense. -- 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
