Responding my to my comment, in part:
One can certainly have different tools that operate on the same object, and different objects acted on by the same tool. But just because the objects are acted on by the same tool, even if they happened to look the same, doesn't autmatically and necessarily demand that they be part of the same list.
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
I don't think I'm being clear. These all all interchangeable texts, withI don't think they are interchangeable texts at all, because they have different funnctions in the music. For one thing, text expressions have a specific impact upon way the music itself is to be realized, for example, how loud, or how fast. or by whom. A running header, or a dedication in a text block have nothing to do with the way the music sounds, and I would submit that the line,
aspects of function assigned. They are only different in Finale because the
program started out making them different. They were once all engraved with
the same tools, and software separated them out.
"Dedicated to my colleague, Dennis"
is _not_ at all interchangeable with
"Allegro ma non troppo".
despite the fact that they are composed of different subsets of the same set of symbols.
This is not, I submit, a case where previously interchangeable texts were separated by the software, any more than a the title page of the score of Stravinsky's "The Firebird" is interchangeable with a shopping list.
I agree that the editing of these can use common dialog boxes, just as if one can find it, one can use Stravinsky's pencil to write a shopping list. That does not make the various types of text item interchangeable, or even functionally equivalent.
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