Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
dhbailey wrote:
If Finale would make include some templates which are predefined for
various house-styles (Henle, Breitkopf&Haertel, Boosey&Hawkes,
G.Schirmer, Schott, Carl Fischer, Southern Music, Rubank, whatever)
with libraries which include more common dynamic marks, more common
tempo marks, all the common expression marks such as rit., accel.,
full words as well as abbreviations, slur settings, tie-end settings,
beaming conventions, they could go a long way to improving a lot about
Finale which leaves beginners looking at not-so-great output and
veteran Finale users having to scramble to make their own such templates.
However, the various publishers cited may wish not to have their house
styles duplicated. There was a site which had certain settings defined
which I understand was pulled down at the demand of a publisher because
the results were too close to the house style of that publisher.
They could get around that by simply not labeling the templates so
specifically. B&Hg could be the German Breitkopf and Haertel, and B&He
could be the English Boosey & Hawkes.
I didn't think look-and-feel could be patented/copyrighted/trademarked.
Of course, none of us little folks have pockets deep enough to withstand
a legal challenge so the actual legality of such a demand is nothing we
could fight in court.
And for the older houses all we'd have to do is to duplicate the
appearance of public domain works.
Oh well, it's a thought!
--
David H. Bailey
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