If you read the FUCKING manual in the index under DOUBLING it says it
right there!!!
Doubling see TRANSPOSITION dialog box 27-46
I think it is YOU sir that has Stockholm syndrome. You are too freaking
stubborn to see that you are absolutely dumb. Finale's index gave you at
least TWO ways to get to what you wanted to do. It's right there.
Man......I just don't know what to say........If you couldn't find it in
the menus, a simple, 5 second look in the Index can find it.
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 4 Jan 2006 at 22:04, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Now I am confused as to what the original question/problem was.
Using transpose to transpose a line and keep the original notes? . .
.
That's precisely the problem here -- you've redefined my original
problem to match the Finale map.
I had no need for transposition -- I only wanted to DOUBLE an
existing line, adding an octave to what was already there.
. . . If you look
in the Index, under COPY, and read it, it doesn't do that. It moves
stuff from one place to another. However, if you looked under
OCTAVES, it says right there "Octaves see Transposition dialog box
27-46"
That is no help with the concept of doubling.
Granted, there is an entry under DOUBLING that refers to
transposition, but, apparently, when I saw it I said to myself "that
can't possibly be what I'm looking for, since what I'm doing has
zilch to do with transposition" -- I honestly don't remember having
encountered any entry in the index under DOUBLING, which is
definitely the task I considered myself to be doing.
The Transpose box is pretty straight forward as well. I really don't
see how this constitutes a "cascade of failures" in the program. Of
course, I suppose reading the manual about what the little "preserve
original notes" does is too much to ask..........
Doubling at the octave has nothing to do with transposition.
Seriously, if you are going to use a program, you need to read the
manual to fully use it. I thought I knew a lot about Finale, but
after READING Bill Duncan's Finale stuff I learned a few new things.
There are plenty of software programs that I use all the time that
are non-trivial but that have discoverable interfaces, organized and
presented in such a way that I never need to use the manual to
accomplish the tasks I want.
There are also programs I use that have excellent help files that are
linked and cross-indexed in such a way as to make it extremely easy
to navigate to exactly the point where the explanation I need is
found.
Finale lacks both.
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