On 1 Feb 2004 at 2:40, Tobias Giesen wrote: > if you want to work with me in a constructive way I can assure you > that any bugs you find can be fixed within a few days. It would be > helpful if you could send a sample file where I can see the errors.
It's not errors, it's the lack of control over what it does. Here are some suggestions that I hope are constructive that would make it more useful for me: 1. use a different line style for each type of parallel (octaves using solid line, fifths dotted line, etc.) so can tell which line goes with which when there are overlapping parallels. This would not be such a great problem if #2 were implemented, since much of the clutter is caused by what I consider to be non-real parallels. As it stands, I'm running it once for parallel octaves and once for parallel fifths (then running it again for parallel octaves to be sure I haven't introduced new octaves in correcting the fifths), which means lots of passes through the music. 2. the ability to restrict to consecutive parallels only, rather than the current detection that seems to be consecutive as well as within beats (?) -- actually, I can't figure out what the linear rules are. It seems to highlight any passage of parallelism no matter what its length, but somehow being tied to whatever the beat is. The latter is the one that is most problematic for me, as there are too many of what are for my purposes false positives. Ideally, I'd run the plugin once to detect parallel octaves and fifths, fix the problems, run it again until there were no parallel octaves and fifths were left, then run it with less strict settings to detect the structural parallelisms that are not literally consecutive, and then decide if any of them cause audible problems and need to be altered. > The TGTools Analyze plug-in detects non-perfect fifths too, just as it > does perfect ones. I discovered this after I responded. I do find your plugin more useful than the one provided with Finale because the way of presenting the results is much clearer. It turns out that I disregarded a lot of parallels found by the Finale plugin because it did not report them in a manner that made it possible to unambiguously determine what was parallel and what was not (non- problematic parallels would be reported in places where there were also problematic ones). Another issue is that I don't like having a separate top-level menu item for something that seems to me to belong under the plugins menu. Is that something I can alter myself (WinFin2K3)? -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
