David, Spot on.
This would preserve "backward compatibility" and meet the objection of it being too wild for the publishers. FWIW, I do not write for a publisher. I write for a private group of people. I haven't taken a survey, but I would venture a guess that many others do not either. I really don't care what publishers think about my manuscripts. My 2c. ---- "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1 Aug 2008 at 8:22, Tyler Turner wrote: > > > Having 50 different expression categories for dynamics so that they could > > each have a different staff list would slow those publishers down. Having > > any staff list at all for dynamics would make them unpredictable when > > positioning or deleting, and would thus also slow them down. > > The problem is a real one for these publishers, no doubt, but the > solution that MM has provided for it seems to me to make no sense. > Why not make the number of staff lists a template-based item? That > is, when you create a template, you set the number of staff lists > permanently for that file. Then the publishers could control this (I > assume they are already using predefined template files, of course), > while it leaves the rest of us the alternative to use as many staff > lists as we choose. > > In short, it seems to me that a problem the publishers have in > managing their engravers (a people problem) has become a problem for > *all* Finale users. While it's important that publishers use Finale > (it's one of the main things keeping it afloat), I don't see why such > a Draconian solution to their very real engraver management problem > should have been chosen. It really doesn't make any sense to me as > either a Finale user or as a programmer. > > Of course, given that it is introduced at the same time as expression > grouping and seems to have some kind of interaction with that > feature, I fear that the restriction can't be removed or simply > extended. *sigh* > > -- > 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 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
