On 5 Aug 2005 at 0:01, Darcy James Argue wrote: > In Scroll View, you can use the hand grabber to put the leftmost > barline anywhere you want, showing as much or as little of the staff > names as you desire. And once you've put it where you want it, it > stays there, no matter what else you do (that is, provided you don't > move left or right with the hand grabber tool again). If you want to > advance or retreat in Scroll View, on Mac, you can use cmd-page up > and cmd-page down to do so. (I'm sure there's a similar shortcut for > Windows.)
Also, it's only in large ensembles that one would really need to be constantly reminded what the staff name is. I work mostly with music in 3-6 parts, and I have no need whatsoever to see the staff names, as I can tell which is which because of the staff groups (the brackets plus the staves sharing a bar line). However, I do think that there's something wrong with a program that displays in one view onscreen in a manner that does *not* represent the final printed view, yet draws some of its dimensions and settings from placement in page view. By that, I mean scroll view's vertical spacing from the top, which is controlled by the definition of the where you place the staff. It seems to me that the display placement ought to be something that is entirely independent of system layout, or the scroll view should display more like the page view (e.g., showing percentage reductions, which would be very handy for me in many cases where *not* showing it makes the music collide in scroll view to the point of near unreadability), or it should be mostly divorced from it. I do think that hand grabbing and moving every time you open the score is an annoyance that you shouldn't have to do, partly because it's fairly fragile, in any event (especially vertically if you scroll up or down or open, say, the MIDI tool window). I think scroll view is the jewel in Finale's crown, the user interface that makes Finale (nearly) unique, and MakeMusic could make a very few very minor tweaks to it that would keep it well ahead of the competition (don't think that Sibelius is not aware of the drawbacks of their page-oriented view). -- 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
