On 6 Jul 2005 at 15:41, Darcy James Argue wrote: > It's not just the dynamic parts. Going through Sib 4, I'm finding > lots of nice, little features Finale would do well to implement: > > Translucent palettes (or "tool windows" as Sibelius calls them)
What use is there for this? Just to make it more Mac-like? > A program option to "Print Date and Time Footer" on all documents, > with the option to choose between the date of most recent printing, or > most recent saving. That's doable in Finale, since you have inserts for both current date and file date. And I prefer Finale's method, since it's not a choice between one or the other, but allows you to do both in the same printout. > A user-configurable list of font equivalents, and the option to > choose which fonts should be used (in order of priority) if a > specified font is not available. Finale used to have font substitutions built in, but there doesn't appear to be any such functionality there any longer (based on a perusal of the online documentation's index). Of course, my printer driver allows me to do this, but only with the PostScript driver (why would that be?). > Custom keyboard shortcut sets, with the ability to assign your own > shortcuts to any menu item or action. I sure would like that one! > The ability to set separate colors and textures for score view vs. > parts view (I know some people will snicker at that, but it's actually > a helpful visual cue). > > AHA! There it is -- a checkbox for "View Parts In New Windows"! > So > David, you *can* compare multiple parts side-by-side. Yay! :) What happens when you have it unchecked? > An option to automatically check for maintenance updates. This is something I hate with a web browser and any number of other programs, but would actually like with a program like Finale, where the the updates usually are quite important and helpful. > The ability to simply copy and paste the selected music directly > into other applications (like, say, Word) without having to export > graphics. I wonder how they manage that. It's a complex problem on Windows, though much less complex on OS X. > The ability to add and edit the list of expressions recognized by > Espressivo (Sib's Human Playback equivalent). Is there no similar functionality in Finale? Does that mean you can't really control what Human Playback does -- it's just all or nothing? -- 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
