For reasons not related to this list, I've looked at the Wikipedia entries for Finale and Sibelius. The Finale one is clearly written by enthusiasts and more importantly end users, who (a) know it's used by a lot of people who know what they're doing, and (b) have very clear expectations. The Sibelius one is like something from their promotion people, perhaps actually written by them, and I'll give a chocolate bar to anyone who spots the glaring error. (No, wait, it's no longer the last week of term.) I feel like it's the perpetual Windows/Mac debate, but I don't know which side Finale is supposed to represent!!
I do encourage people to go and look at the articles, because neither represents the program in anything like a true and meaningful way. Colleagues talk about Sibelius to the stage it's a verb along with Powerpoint, because it's all they've ever used, but then a lone voice pipes up and says "I've started using Finale because I find it quicker". Yes, funnily enough, I started to talk to him about this. He's also found specific percussion things which don't work [easily] on Sibelius but are fine on Finale. I'm concerned, and not specifically because I'm a Finale user, about the way Sibelius has created a monopoly on notation software in the UK. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
