On 17 Feb 2009 at 10:06, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 17.02.2009 David W. Fenton wrote: > > There is simply no excuse for repeating a system from one page to > > another. That's a bug. I shouldn't have to update page layout > > (manually or automatically) just to be sure I don't encounter that > > bug. > > The bug is that auto-layout-update can be disabled in the first place.
Well, I would definitely say it's a design flaw that Finale can't manage this more reliably. > The only reason this option is still there is that this preserves the > was Finale worked pre-auto-layout-update. The reason Finale worked like > that was underpowered processing which couldn't cope with the processing > power needed to update the layout after every edit. As I've suggested in regard to the resulting churn in the data structures, there is at least one other plausible reason to have it off. > Again, unless you are working on a vastly underpowered machine, switch > the thing on and forget about it. I'm not, and I'm also not going to turn it on. -- 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
