On 15 Sep 2005 at 9:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a frustrating problem with the Ossia tool. > > The source measure contains > the following: e e q(tie)e 8th rest e e > > The first four notes are slurred, as are the last two. > > When I create the ossia, it strips the tie and the slurs. > > Is this a bug, or have I missed something?
I don't know why the Ossia tool doesn't display the tie and slurs, but that appears to be the way it works. I tested in WinFin 2003 and the 2005 demo, and both omitted the tie and slurs. I have mostly found the Ossia tool useless, and this is one of the reasons why. It's also remarkably obtuse, requiring that you indicate the source staff by number, even though the only place you can see the staff numbers are in staves with no staff name defined or by using the Staff Usage dialog, which does not inidicate the name of the staves with names. This is the kind of thing that drives people to use Sibelius, because it's a completely unnecessary complication of UI -- you should be able to simply point and click at the measure you want as the source for the Ossia. And that it doesn't actually include essential musical elements like ties and slurs shows that it just wasn't designed well, seems to me. Why would you want the Ossia tool to not display everything in the musical text of the source measure? It's obvious why you might not display key signatures or time signatures or bar lines, because those are not the musical content and can easily be inferred from context. But the other things just don't make sense to be omitted, though the *option* to omit them might be nice (as you have an option to omit expressions, for instance). I suspect that this is one of those neglected tools that has always been so badly designed that everyone gives up on it, and MakeMusic never hears any requests for fixing it, since it's so useless that nobody ever wants to bother to ask them to make it work right. I think most people use embedded graphics (EPS on Mac and TIF on Windows) for this purpose. Yes, no, maybe? -- 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
