On 7/6/05, Tyler Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally, I think GPO is going to be a much bigger > selling point that linked parts. Why? How many times > do composers click play as opposed to extracting > parts? I don't believe part extraction is done as > commonly as some people here believe.
I've been following this discussion of linked parts versus extracted parts with puzzlement, and wondered where (or whether) to step in with my comments. Before I started using Finale 6-7 years ago I had worked as a programmer for a major wordprocessor (one that is now virtually defunct, thanks to the world's dominant software company ... but I digress.) I have always thought that it is particularly awkward to have to "extract" parts, yielding multiple instances of the same "document". In the word processor world, we had a single "document" with multiple "views." (It is kind of like an HTML editor that lets you look at the same document either showing the HTML tags or hiding them, or ... [pick a variation]) It has always seemed like it would be much more natural if finale would treat the displaying/printing of individual parts (or subsets of parts) as variant "views" of the "one" document that constitutes the composition. Yes, there might be issues if you decide (for example) to insert a measure while editing the violin part (in the violin part-only "view")--but it would be predictable: when you change to the full score view, you would see a new blank measure in all the other parts (for example) ... and could fill up the other staves. I'm not a big Sibelius fan (I purchased a switchover license several years ago, but coutinue to buy each annual Finale upgrade, and have done no serious composing with Sibelius) and don't know how they have implemented their "linked" parts, but extracting parts from the the main score is a real drag. A "document/view" model would seem to make much more sense. My two cents. (I am still an ardent fan of Finale, BTW! ... and have already paid for the 2006 upgrade.) _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
