Matthew, Thanks for the comments. I agree about the third-party plugin developers doing a great job and being very responsive -- though I have trouble with the TGTools UI (see http://maltedmedia.com/photos/tgtools.gif).
At 09:09 AM 2/28/04 +1100, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote: >Scroll view is one of the main reasons why I continue to stick with Finale, >in spite of its getting slower (on the Mac) with every incarnation. It's >great for entering the music without worrying about page layout though I >agree that its non-WYSIWYG nature is annoying at times. >Sibelius doesn't have scroll view, and you get the situation where entering >material in the last bar of a page will suddenly cause that bar to >disappear - it's been pushed automatically to the next page. Frustrating >and annoying as hell: give me Finale Scroll View any day. I agree that scroll view is valuable. It's my main entry mode, too. What I meant was 'page view, scroll view emulation'. This would set page view temporarily to an infinite width. Page-applied items won't be visible, but all normal scroll activities will be both normal and positioned correctly. It would need some work, of course, to make sure auto-update is disabled in that mode, or that system breaks are shown with some sort of, say, color gradation. >> Stacking objects is long overdue (bring to front/top, bring >> forward/backward, etc.). > >The Selection tool does seem to be OK at cycling through overlapping items >to get what you want. We just had an issue with wanting to break a slur through a time signature. Unfortunately, the Finale doesn't allow it because it lacks front/back stacking. It's a fixed order. >The big winner for Finale at the moment in the school and education market >is Finale Notepad. Teachers like free stuff. I know that. I taught for six years. :) >there are many extremely >irritating things around in Sibelius too, such as slur behaviour and the >RSI-inducing lack of handles. By the time Sibelius gets to version 5, >however... As I understand it, it doesn't do new stuff very well (especially heavily graphical scores). I played with importing some Finale files (after taking Steve Gibons advice to make sure they were ETF), and it trashed spacing, tuplets, complex time signatures, and placed graphics. I didn't look any further; that was enough for me! Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
