On 27 Sep 2002 at 8:35, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: > At 8:22 PM -0400 9/26/02, David W. Fenton wrote: > >On 26 Sep 2002 at 20:05, David H. Bailey wrote: > > > >> I, for one, like the way it is implemented and have no confusion working > >> with it. > > > >You like seeing 1:23 go to 2:1 and then 2:31 going to 3:1 and then > >3:89 going to 90 and then 3:121 (which is displayed only as "121") > >going to 4:1, etc.? > > Yep. That way it tallies with the measure numbers of the piece of > paper I am most probably working from. Although I admit that 3:121 > would probably be more clear to me than simply 121.
??? Sounds to me like you are agreeing with me that the present way makes little sense for circumstances in which measure numbers are used in more than one section. I certainly would not find the real measure numbers useful at all, as some someone else suggested, as it makes working with the source more difficult (since you have to translate from "real" measure numbers to the printed measure numbers). Obviously I'm in a minority here, as everyone seems, once again, to reflexively defend Finale's default behaviors. Frankly, I'm beginning to conclude that many of the regular users of Finale on this list are victims of the Stockholm syndrome, because they seem unable to do anything but rationalize many of Finale's obvious failings. I'm coming at it as a long-time but sporadic Finale user who has just upgraded from an older version to the latest version. Coda has fixed many important aspects of the program, but they have also introduced a number of new counterintuitive aspects to the program, very much consistent with all the things we've complained about for years. This seems to me to suggest that the problems with Finale are not so much legacy issues as they are failure of imagination on Coda's part. If that's so, Sibelius will win after all. -- 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
