Thanks for your comments. > -----Opprinnelig melding----- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne > av Robert Patterson > Sendt: 3. november 2008 00:19 > Til: finale@shsu.edu > Emne: Re: [Finale] WinFin 2009a and the toxic file and Rant > > The last 2 upgrades in particular I find worse than useless. (In Fin08 > they screwed up copy/paste and in Fin09 expressions.) > > But every time I contemplate switching to Sibelius, 2 things always > stop > me. The first is that I can't even get to first base with my orchestra > and band templates because Sibelius lacks nested desk brackets. I > lobbied hard for that feature in Finale back in the mid-90s, and I am > loth to abandon it. > > The second is that, as far as I can tell, it is simply impossible to > work as quickly in Sibelius as one can in Finale with 3rd-party > plugins. > Learning how to use the 3rd party plugins for maximum efficiency takes > patience and practice, but once you get there you can fly. The problem > for Finale is most users don't have the patience or the need to climb > the hill. > > It is not that MM does not know about their missteps. This list and > MM's > public forums are rife with comment. One can well imagine how much more > pointed and explicit the private forums may be. But MM these days seems > to have constituencies whose concerns trump those of their best > long-time individual customers. > > My $0.02. > > RP > > Roger Jeffs wrote: > > > I've been using Finale for the last 16 years or so, but I'm seriously > considering giving up on it and taking my entire college department > with me. Each new version of Finale seems to introduce new problems > whilst old sins just continue. I've tried the demo version of Fin 2009, > and it seems to be a coninuance of the same old story. > > I wonder what features in Sibelius you find bad and stupid. Could you > elaborate a little? > > > > -- > Robert Patterson > > http://RobertGPatterson.com > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
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