On 8/17/2017 8:02 AM, SN jef chippewa wrote: > >> MakeMusic assumes that users are always online and they have decided >> in their not-so-infinite wisdom that it's easier for them to keep >> their online content up-to-date. > > i can't speak about why they did this but it is in fact a more > logical approach, if managed properly. making corrections and > updates online means they are immediately available to users, which > is not the case with print manuals. again, i am talking about "the > practice", not MM's practices. > > in an ideal world, if the structure of the document is simple (it > isn't), a harddisk version could be made available to users (a > different format than online -- implying work/costs) with the option > to prefer to access the online version when possible. the user could > set the programme to auto/manually update as needed so that their > workflow is not affected when the only online access they have is > through their mother-in-law's dial-up modem :-) >
It would be nice if they would periodically turn that online help into a PDF file which could be downloaded. Or have their online manual as an old-fashioned web-page with sub-folders for additional content referenced from the index.html page -- that way users could simply use the "save as web-page complete" function of their browser and download all that material to their local hard-drive for use while off-line. But the current incarnation of the on-line user manual has a lot of java-script nonsense running through it making it impossible to download the whole thing without going to and saving every single page which would be a nightmare. So the next best thing is to get the 2009 user manual and buy the Finale 2014: Trailblazer printed book and work from there. -- ***** David H. Bailey dhbaile...@comcast.net http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
