Is it too much to ask of MM to request a *comprehensive* listing of all changes in Finale in any given upgrade? When I presented that question to tech support a while back they told me that there were too many little things and the list would be too big, or something like that. The little things are what I'd like to know about and are usually the hardest to find.
How many times have we seen "Wow, I didn't know about that" on this list? I'm not suggesting any more than a listing of new features and changes. It seems to me like a good idea and I can't imagine it being too hard to compile. Somebody at MM would be keeping that master list anyway, wouldn't they? Once we know *what* we're looking for most of us can usually find it. Don Hart on 1/4/06 2:20 PM, David W. Fenton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 4 Jan 2006 at 13:34, Andrew Stiller wrote: > >> On Jan 4, 2006, at 7:29 AM, dhbailey wrote: >> >>> Jim Mays wrote: >>> >>>>> In the transpose dialogue box check "preserve original notes." >>>>> Then transpose by an octave and you'll get the old and the new >>>>> pitches. >>>> How counterintuitive is that? It never would have occurred to me to >>>> notice that. >>>> >>>> RTFM >>> >>> While I'm not quite sure that having it in plain view in the >>> transpose dialog (and having been there for many years now) is >>> counterintuitive, I would say that trying to figure out how to find >>> such a thing in the FM is possible. >>> >>> Not knowing what it's called or where it's located, how would you >>> suggest we find it in the FM? There's no entry in the index for >>> "Keep Original Notes," there's no entry in the index for "Preserve >>> Original Notes," there's no entry for "Add Notes At The Octave" and >>> there's NO entry under "Transpose" in the index at all for either >>> Keep or Preserve Original Notes. >>> >> >> Quick Help/Dialog Boxes/Transposition. >> >> Since Quick Help is in any event much more useful than the full >> manual, maybe we should say RTFQH. >> >> At the very least, anyone who ever uses the transposition dialog (and >> isn't that everyone on the list?) will see the "preserve original >> pitches" option staring them in the face every time the dialog is >> open. It may be counterintuitive, but one may well ask why intuition >> is required here in the first place. > > I use the transposition dialog ALL THE TIME. > > But I DON'T READ IT. > > Why? > > Because I already know what's there. > > Obviously, I *didn't* already know what's there, but I *thought* I > did (because of familiarity) so the option to preserve the original > notes was invisible to me. > > Retrospectively, I can understand why the feature ends up in the > transposition dialog. > > But I cannot construct a logical path to that destination without > first knowing that the feature is associated with transposition. That > association is not at all obvious to me. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
