Mark D Lew wrote:
On May 26, 2010, at 9:22 AM, John Howell wrote:
From what I can see, the new lyric "features" are more like playing
catchup with Sibelius, although I can't make a side-by-side
comparison. Infinite verses might better than Sibelius' limit of 5,
for people doing hymn books. And the automatic melisma slurs MIGHT
come in handy, if they can be turned off. But Sibelius can already
switch fonts and sizes almost as easily. And ignoring punctuation
and quotation marks might be a really tiny improvement, but handling
verse numbers would be an even better one.
I don't understand the point of infinite verses, other than as a
marketing gimmick. I surely agree that five is too few, but what's
the current finite limit in Finale? Isn't it well over a hundred?
It's enough that I've never run out, even using them liberally.
The improvement for punctuation isn't tiny for me. I like that a
lot. Of all the new lyric features announced, it's the one that would
make the most difference to me.
mdl
Five is ridiculously too small a limit! Many hymns have more than five
- check an Amish hymnal sometimes! We may not want to read more than
five in one staff, on _average_, but a modern notation program has to be
able to handle more than the average.
"Infinite" could be useful occasionally - I have hymn files in which I
store all the various versions of a hymn's text that I have run across.
Or, when I am writing a text on a song or anthem, I may have several
different versions of the text before I am done (every time I make a
change I may store the old version). So, storing dozens of
verses/stanzas has been useful at times.
Raymond Horton
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