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?
You can create a document using one Sibelius House Style and then later
on simply change the House Style to a different one and the necessary
items will alter in the file you've already created.
In Finale to do that, you need to create the file in one template, then
open the second template with the different style and then try to copy
all of your musical data from the first file to the new template.
And we all know how wonderful Finale is at copying all the musical
details between files. :-) (not!)
Sibelius' House Styles removes the necessity to copy music from one
template to another template simply to duplicate the appearance of
another file.
--
David H. Bailey
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