On 26 Sep 2002 at 14:56, Mark D. Lew wrote: > At 1:12 PM 09/26/02, David W. Fenton wrote: > > >I don't see any utility at all in omitting the section number for > >measures that fall within a measure number region. > > Well, if your entire piece is numbered normally, then every measure falls > within a measure number region. > > I think the "utility" is the idea that some newbie will see "1:2" and go > "Huh? what does that mean?" The "2" alone is far less likely to confuse, > so the program is designed to avoid the double number as much as possible.
Well, if there's only one region, show no region number. If there is more than one region, *show* the region number, always. I just don't see the utility in knowing that I am looking at measure numbers that are unique across regions. Oops, just thought of something -- non-everlapping numbers. I guess that's what you meant. So, if there's no overlap of *any* numbers, show them without the region. If there's any overlap of numbers, show the region. I just can't imagine a reason, other than ease of programming to allow for the non-overlapping numbering, that would justify not showing the region number in the case of a file with multiple regions with the same numbers. > Anyway, I think it must be extremely easy to offer it as a program option > to always display the region number with the measure number. Then everyone > could be happy. Make it a feature request. This is the kind of thing that most users, who are not as ornery as me, would simply not worry about and just say, "ho hum -- that's the way it is" and not try to figure out why. But to me, it's just messy and inconvenient. I don't think it should be a program option -- making things user settings does not take away the basic disorganized thinking that leads to implementing it in that way. -- 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
