On 1 Feb 2011 at 9:35, David H. Bailey wrote: > If the examples on the website are very fine and the output you see in > the hymnal is poor, then how can you blame the program at all?
!!! Of course you can blame the program! What that means is that a good engraver knows what to adjust manually, while the neophyte will just use the defaults. If the defaults are ill-chosen, it means there's more tweaking required to get a "good enough" result (cf. Finale/Sibelius). Finale's defaults have always been terrible, and no one who wants decent output uses the defaults for layout. The experienced Finale user can get excellent output, but at the cost of a pretty large investment in learning what to change from the way Finale sets things up by default. I don't care for Sibelius, but it produces satisfactory notation with its out-of-the-box defaults, whereas Finale certainly does not. That's a big time-saver when "good enough" is GOOD ENOUGH. -- 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
