On 6 Feb 2004 at 14:05, Roger McDuffie wrote: > On Feb 5, 2004, at 2:58 AM, Mark D Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As a matter of fact, on the Sibelius list there was recently a > > question concerning how one could tell at a glance if a score were > > engraved with Sibelius or Finale or Score, and one wise-ass replied > > that if you could spot a measure with the incorrect number of beats, > > it was a Finale score. > > >Does that mean you can't score a cadenza in Sibelius? Can't have a > >pickup bar? > > I have never written anything resembling a cadenza in Sibelius, but > one way of doing it is to hide bar lines and time sigs. Also, as far > as I know and for an example, one could write a 47/16 time sig for one > long bar and then hide the time sig. Play back would be something else > altogether.
What about things like you see on the last page of this score: http://www.bway.net/~dfenton/Collegium/Scores/MorleyRoses.pdf where you have notation that is purposefully "wrong" because it's musically clearer, with a dotted quarter note where only a quarter not is allowed by the meter, in order that you don't have to have a note tied. This makes the motive clearer, and is very helpful to musicians. Doing it this way in Finale also results in correct playback (there is a hidden 8th rest on the downbeat of the next measure). Can this be done in Sibelius? > I write pickup bars in Sibelius all the time. Very simple to do. I > think starting in version 3, Sibelius takes care of the bar numbering > problem that could be created. I've been known to forget to make the > next bar complete thus wasting a minute, but that may be fixed in > version 3 too. I haven't used version 3.1 yet. > > Each version has been a big improvement. I wish Sibelius would go back > to publishing little fixes for downloading rather than making us wait > a year. Finale's original pickup measure solution was (and still is) terrible, so I think most of us just use measures in different meters to accomplish the task. Is there a plugin anywhere to manage measure number regions? I know that it's a pain to do it with the builtin Finale functionality, or, at least, it is for me! -- 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
