Re: [Finale] Sibelius 3

2003-09-29 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 1:00 PM 09/26/03, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Acct wrote: >The use of measurements displayed on the screen is again excellently >implemented in Sibelius. This is a really good feature that would be of >great use to many engravers. That's something that I would like very much. I would love it if

RE: [Finale] Sibelius 3 - no scroll mode

2003-09-27 Thread Andrew Stiller
That strikes me like saying that it is OK if a car manufacturer decided not to include any forward gears because with a lot of practice and patience, people can learn how to drive backwards really well. One of the early European auto makers, I forget which one, built his first cars w.o brakes.

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 3 - no scroll mode

2003-09-27 Thread David H. Bailey
While there are many reasons not to like Sibelius (just as for midi-users there are many reasons not to like Finale) I don't think the lack of scroll mode is one of them. Your remark maks me think that you never wrote music on paper and had to turn to a new page as you entered more notes. Yes

RE: [Finale] Sibelius 3 - no scroll mode

2003-09-26 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 07:49 PM 9/26/2003 -0400, Ronald M. Krentzman wrote: However, Sibelius now has a feature called "focus on staves" which works somewhat like staff sets in Finale. This makes it much easier to enter notes without all the jumping around. There is a work-around in Sibelius where you can set the pa

RE: [Finale] Sibelius 3 - no scroll mode

2003-09-26 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 07:29 PM 9/26/03 -0500, Williams, Jim wrote: >you're writing as if Graphire has expired..has it? No, it's been re-worked. There was an announcement recently that Barbara Touburg forwarded me from the Score discussion list: === I think it would be a good idea for me to put my two cents in at t

RE: [Finale] Sibelius 3 - no scroll mode

2003-09-26 Thread Williams, Jim
-Original Message- From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In the Graphire days, it was possible to emulate scroll mode by making the page temporarily hundreds of inches wide. Not possible in Sibelius? Dennis, yo

RE: [Finale] Sibelius 3 - no scroll mode [resend]

2003-09-26 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Either the Finale list is backed up, or this message didn't go. Here it is again. At 07:29 PM 9/26/03 -0500, Williams, Jim wrote: >you're writing as if Graphire has expired..has it? No, it's been re-worked. There was an announcement recently that Barbara Touburg forwarded me from the Score discus

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 3 - no scroll mode

2003-09-26 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 05:14 PM 9/26/03 -0500, Craig Parmerlee wrote: >At 01:00 PM 9/26/2003 +1000, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Acct wrote: >>There is still no scroll view. You realise how good it is to be able to >>enter notes without page layout constantly taking place when, for example, >>the bar you're working on su

RE: [Finale] Sibelius 3 - no scroll mode

2003-09-26 Thread Ronald M. Krentzman
However, Sibelius now has a feature called "focus on staves" which works somewhat like staff sets in Finale. This makes it much easier to enter notes without all the jumping around. There is a work-around in Sibelius where you can set the page width to a large number and get sort of an ersatz scrol

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 3 - no scroll mode

2003-09-26 Thread Richard Huggins
> From: Craig Parmerlee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It is like some tortured game of whack-a-mole. Great imagery!! --RH ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 3 - no scroll mode

2003-09-26 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 01:00 PM 9/26/2003 +1000, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Acct wrote: There is still no scroll view. You realise how good it is to be able to enter notes without page layout constantly taking place when, for example, the bar you're working on suddenly jumps off the screen because it's been pushed to t

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 3

2003-09-26 Thread Matthew Hindson Fastmail Acct
Javier Ruiz wrote: > > Hola, Matthew > > How about the speed? I installed the Sibelius 2 demo and it was very slow in > my G4. It was like working in slow motion with a time delay added. > [My G4 is by no means the fastest, but enough to run ProTools LE and Logic > Audio withourt problems.] Well,

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 3

2003-09-26 Thread Javier Ruiz
Hola, Matthew How about the speed? I installed the Sibelius 2 demo and it was very slow in my G4. It was like working in slow motion with a time delay added. [My G4 is by no means the fastest, but enough to run ProTools LE and Logic Audio withourt problems.] Anyway a program that does not implem

[Finale] Sibelius 3

2003-09-25 Thread Matthew Hindson Fastmail Acct
Sibelius have released Sibelius 3, with a demo that can be downloaded. I am not an experienced Sibelius user, but I decided to try it out for a couple of hours. Of course, being inexperienced may mean that some of the observations I have made may be erroneous. FWIW, here are my impressions, in n