On 6 Jul 2005 at 12:19, Andrew Stiller wrote: > On Jul 6, 2005, at 2:58 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > > > . Let's see if we can flesh something out on-list before > > submitting. > > > > First, Special Part Extraction would need to be revamped to be > > able to save independent an layout for each staff.... > > Of all the long list of proposed features that follows, I'm not at all > sure I feel a need for *any* of them. Darcy is asking for a > profusion of new dialog boxes and windows, whereas I would have > thought it obvious that any dynamic parts linking should be > transparent: I change the score, the change is automatically (after > signing off on an alert box) conveyed to the parts. Period. > > And as I wrote in a separate post, even that would be much less > useful to me than the reverse: change a part and have it > automatically (after an alert box) affect the score.
I don't see why you'd want an alert box. The only reason I can see it is in order to break the habits of thought that independent file part extraction has built up in experienced Finale users, where they can do anything to the part and know that the score remains unchanged. It seems to me self-evident that linked parts are the way Finale should have been designed from the beginning. The spawing of individual independent files, while perhaps dictated by the realities of computer processing power at the time Finale was designed, make no sense at all when Finale is viewed as a database program. The data file is a database, and there are various report views for showing that data and subsets of that data. That is a perfectly natural way to think of the program and the presentation of its data. Then the only question is whether or not the different views are completely independent of each other in terms of the "view" characteristics (i.e., layout) or if subviews (individual parts) inherit characteristics from the global view (score). I can't see any reason except the inertia of experience to not see linked parts as a huge advantage, especially for composers who are in Dennis's situation (i.e., making revisions to the piece based on feedback from a reading with actual musicians). -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
