Hi David,
The Properties window does not open by default when you launch Sib.
It's not mentioned in any of the basic tutorials. It was a while
before I even realized it existed. It takes up a lot of screen real
estate so I tend to leave it closed when I work. It's context-
sensitive, so you can't see all the things it is capable of
controlling at a glance -- you have to select an object first to see
what properties are available for modification. And when I am trying
to do something I don't know how to do in an application I'm not 100%
familiar with, I tend to look in the *menus* -- I don't think I'm that
unusual in that regard. If a feature is not accessible via the menus,
but only appears in a separate, context-sensitive window when you have
precisely the right object selected, it's easy to overlook. It's
certainly a very different UI philosophy from Finale.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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Brooklyn, NY
On 26 Jun 2009, at 2:49 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 26 Jun 2009 at 14:27, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Sib hides a lot of its
more useful features in the Properties window.
While I haven't used Sibelius, the idea that access to the properties
of text would be "hidden" by putting them in the properties window
seems completely absurd to me. A properties sheet is the first place
I'd look!
--
David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/
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