On 22 Sep 2002 at 16:40, Mark D. Lew wrote: > At 6:34 PM 09/22/02, David W. Fenton wrote: > > >The PAGE DOWN key doesn't move the cursor! All it does is drive the > >scrollbar, and this is one of the reasons why I was having so much > >difficulty losing my place in the EDIT LYRICS window. > > > >Is this the same on the Mac? > > I just tried it, and yes, it's the same. For some reason, I'm in the habit > of using the arrow keys rather than page-up and page-down, so I had never > noticed this before.
Why would anyone *not* normally use pageup/pagedown to navigate within a text box? Hello? > >It's a damned unfriendly text editing window, I must say. > > I agree with that 100%. It's a horrible window, and there are numerous > things that ought to be done to improve it. For starters I'd like to be > able to resize the window, and I'd like a function that changes the % view > of the text in it. There should also be search and replace functions, so you could find your place in a lengthy section of text. > Fortunately, I'm not affected by it too often, since I usually just type > text into it all at once and never need to change anything later. When I do > make edits there, it's pretty clumsy. If I have a lot of typing or editing > to do, I'll sometimes use cut and paste to copy the text to a real text > editor for editing, then cut and paste again to move it back. This is > actually not such a big deal to do, but even so it's utterly ridiculous > that anyone would ever want to. But what happens if you introduce some small inconsistency, like an extra space or something? How can Finale know what to do with that? No, that sounds extremely dangerous to me, and would be wholly unnecessary if Finale provided proper facilitities for text editing in the first place. -- 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
