At 21:44 +1000 28/09/2002, Michael Edwards wrote: > I do not do music professionally, and do not have to meet deadlines, so >perhaps I can afford to be flexible like this, and organize the way I work >around NotePad and its limitations for some months, at least - >depending on just >what those limitations are. Are they more to do with the complexity >of notation >you can use, or the size of files, or the number of pages in a score, or what?
Mostly the complexity of notation. Important limitations of NotePad are: - Can't change key in the middle of a piece. - Can't change time signature in the middle of a piece. - No more than eight staves. - Just a few articulations and expressions (dynamics) and no way to create new ones. - No way of editing music spacing or layout. I don't think there are limits on the number of measures or pages. Somewhere on the CodaMusic site there's a detailed table of comparison for the four Coda notation products (Finale, Allegro, PrintMusic and NotePad). > What *would* be important would be that any files I create in NotePad be >fully readable and useable in Finale - but I imagine this would be >so, wouldn't >it? Yes. Notepad is OK for writing a simple song, if you're prepared to accept the layout of the music (if NotePad decides that the last measure of your song should have a page all to itself, there's nothing you can do about it). But it doesn't really give you an idea of what Finale can do. Best wishes, Michael Cook _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
