Interesting rant. I have 3 things to add: (1) Although I'm not sure, but as an educated guess, I'd say that most of Finale's bugs, kludges, and bad programming that infuriate Dennis have to do with the fact that the programmers who work on music notation software have to be musically inclined. They must equally know about the theory of music, notation issues, and they must be able to program. That combination is rare in this world.
(2) I don't see the point in Dennis using Finale. I do it because I work for publishers who need PDF's to print professionally. Couldn't Dennis save a lot of time and nerves by writing by hand? All of the things he wants are just a single pencil-stroke away (to use the famous "one-click-away" concept in the opposite sense). (3) About clicking. I've said this before. Clicking is not faster than typing. Typing is the fastest input mechanism ever invented. You have ten fingers and you can have LOTS of keys and key combinations. (4) (This is a joke.) We could all pull our resources together and create our own successful music notation workstation with no bugs or errors! I'd provide the custom(-izable) keyboards, our plugin writers would work on the code with structural and interface problems being layed out and solved by Dennis! There would be no Micnotator available, no scan interpretation support, and the workstation would be marketed under the wonderful name: "Finally". The press release headlines would read: "SENSATION: Plugins Develop Artificial Intelligence and Devour Host Program!" > <rant begin> > <rant end> > > Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
