> From: "Stig Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Finale Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 18:34:06 +0100 > Subject: [Finale] Moving from Windows to Mac > > I consider moving my last serious program I run on my PC: Finale to Mac. > A friend that already has done so told me that the only problem he had > encountered was the limited use of shortcuts in Mac. I suggested QuicKeys as > a very good alternative, but he had tried this app. but never got used to > it. > > Any comments from the list would be nice before I dump my old WinPC!
Dear Stig, Quickeys is good for a lot of things, and is worth having. You can also get a lot of shortcuts automatically by using a control panel called TurboKeys. This control panel allows you to access the menu items at the top of the screen via keystrokes, in the same way that you can on the PC via Alt. e.g. to toggle Select Partial Measures, I type <apple+control> ES. I seem to remember getting this control panel from Connectix, but can't be sure about that since it was so long ago. Of course, it only works in OS 9, not OS X. BTW, you will probably also find that the Mac version of Finale runs much slower than the PC version, due (I think) to the different way that the Mac writes information to the screen. If Finale were G4 optimized, it may make some difference (who knows?), but currently it's not. In addition, there are many less palettes available on the Mac. Another downer is that we Mac-ers can't use the Forza plugin. But on the plus side, there are Philip Aker's plugins. Good luck with it, Matthew P.S. Your emails from Microsoft Word are sending out copious excess HTML to the list. It would be great if you could somehow turn this off, as it makes the Digest hard to read. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
