On 15 Oct 2006 at 0:32, Mark D Lew wrote: > I remember some crowded and complicated systems where > I'd spend a half an hour on just one system, to get it just right. > Loose music, on the other hand, was a breeze and needed few if any > tweaks.
It seems to me that one of the reasons Score is successful is because it enforces a lower bound of spacing such that you can't get spacing that is so tight as to make things go awry. Finale has no such lower bound, and that is a good thing It would be nice, though, if some professional engraving standards were somehow built into Finale so that it could tell you if you've exceeded standard modern engraving density. A Bärenreiter score is more loosely spaced than an old Breitkopf & Härtel score, for instance. Both look fine, but they are using different standards for what constitutes the lower bound for spacing density. Having that somehow built into Finale (or a plugin?) would be nice. And if it were somehow built into Finale, it would make it possible to control different spacing parameters independently within certain spacing ranges. Of course, none of this will ever happen. But it would be nice if it did. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
