Ray Horton wrote:
John Howell wrote:
Hardly a spy! I've monitored the FinaleList much longer than I've
been on the SibList, since our Department adopted Finale before being
forced to drop it when our students were ready to show up with new OSX
computers. And I find the different discussions very instructive.
The problems discussed and the wish-lists are considerably different
on the two lists.
My problem is that I'm a user, but I'll never, EVER be a programmer,
so even a simple comment like "make a new text style" leaves me
wondering, "HOW"?!!! People who can write their own patches and
invent their own workarounds forget that most of us can not.
John
Yeah, that was a joke, because I was pretty sure I remembered you as
being the one who brought up the 5-verse limit in Sib. I'm really more
of a spy on the Sib list. I got on that list when I was considering
switching because of a specific problem, but that problem turned out to
be non-Finale related. I bought Sib anyway, during the $80 trade-up
special, but never loaded it.
Although, I must say that I bite my lip on the Sib list and don't log in
and gloat whenever some applicable Sib question is asked - I don't jump
in and say "Are you kidding? That's so easy in Finale!" One or two of
the Sib users here will do that here, on occasion, and it's not really
helpful if that poster is not conversant with both programs, just as my
comment on the non-existent Sib 5-verse limit was not helpful.
When I started using Sibelius more intensely, I, too would
often think "that's so much easier in Finale" but most of
what I thought that about turned out simply to be that I
didn't understand how to do it in Sibelius yet.
But certain things remain easier in Finale, like not having
courtesy key signatures appear at the end of the previous
line when creating key changes.
But other things are easier in Sibelius, so it truly is (in
my opinion) a pretty even neck-and-neck horse race between
the two.
For some things I fire up Finale and for others I fire up
Sibelius, probably a bit more than Finale, but I haven't
abandoned it.
--
David H. Bailey
dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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