On 7 Jul 2005 at 21:21, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > Johannes Gebauer wrote: > > > While we are on about it: House styles is another area where > > Sibelius is far superior to Finale. > > In my considerations of Sibelius, the closed, proprietary way they > treat the data file structure is such an early consideration, that I'm > not reached the point of understanding exactly what a house style is. > Intuitively, this would reaonsably include what fonts to use, details > of spacing, of line widths, of beaming methods, of shape and spacing, > of ties and slurs. But I can create a Finale template document which > has the line thicknesses, and staff and system spacings, and font > selections, and even additional "insert" items as reserved text > blocks, and which pre-loads designated libraries. > > What can a Sibelius "House Style" do that one cannot do with a Finale > template?
Change all of those settings at once in a pre-existing file, simply by choosing a different house style? I don't know -- I'm guessing. It's the only implementation of such a thing that would make any sense to me. Sort of like a stylesheet in a word processor or an HTML page. -- 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
