On 27 Sep 2002 at 15:20, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: > At 12:48 PM -0400 9/27/02, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > >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, > > Introduced new issues? Most of the ones you are complaining about are > old ones, we all supposed you had just run across them recently.
In regard to spacing of hidden items, the behavior is different in WinFin2003 than it was in WinFin97, which is the version I upgraded from. For me, that makes it a new issue. In light of the long history of Finale (I've been using it since 1990, WinFin2.01), that's still relatively "new," even if others encountered the issue a couple of years ago when staff styles were introduced. I truly don't think that the advancements in Finale since WinFin97 are nearly as great as everyone on the list led me to believe they were, what with the constant harping on "of course you have these kinds of problems because you're using an old, old version," something I heard a lot. Yes, I like lots of things about WinFin2003, truly. But it's still got just about the same number of extraordinarily annoying default behaviors that it always did -- they've just been moved to different places. -- 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
