At 02:24 PM 9/27/02 -0400, ÉQ==ric Dussault wrote: >It makes me wonder why would someone use scroll view nowadays unless for >very specific reasons (slur that crosses page or cresc. etc.). I understand >that someone who has a very old computer would do it and also know that it >has been design years ago to make it possible to have a snappier reaction >from the computer. I first started with Finale 97 on a PC and could see a >difference between page view and scroll view. Finale 2003 is a bit less >snappier but isn't it more comfortable to work in page view?
Never for me as a composer. I hate page view and only use it for the very, very, very, very, very final stage. Music is vertical and horizontal, but not paginated. It doesn't have paragraphs and sentences as text does, but lines that cross and merge. Scroll view is much more natural from that perspective. Page view is clumsy, you can't see where the music has come and gone, phrases are broken up, and the line is broken across systems and pages. Yes, it's normal for performance -- though I've seen a wonderful contraption that scrolls printed music with a footpedal and motor -- and the best means of reading easily, so the result is "converted" to page view. Whenever I edit and revise, I got back to scroll view and recast everything in page view later. The only time I have had to work in page view is for scores whose content is critically graphical, and even then, it's full scrolled out first to make sure everything can be put in place, and then converted to page view. It would be great if Finale's whole relationship between page view and scroll view were more intelligent. Then I wouldn't ever have to look at page view except for pagination items -- titles and page numbers, mostly. But because the scroll/page relationship is as a whole broken (slurs, smart shapes, repeat brackets, etc., etc.), it's a lot of additional work to subsequently break up the score into page-size pieces. I look forward to the day when every music stand is a gently glowing flat display, and paper and pages are gone from the scene! Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
