Sorrowful state of software
10/17/2005 07:13 AM
By Matt Kelly
Last week, Jack Hughes hopped on a flight from Connecticut to California to
hob-nob with some of the sharpest software developers in the world.
As president of TopCoder Inc., a Glastonbury, Conn., software development
business,
I hate useless features that cause programs to get bigger and more
sluggish without offering real productivity gains.
However...
Finale already is a sequencer, just not a very good one. We really
could use a mixer (in its own window that graphically followed MIDI
instructions already in the
Jim Mays wrote:
Sheesh! Dont be too greedy. With Word and Finale you have two high
end programs that each work on Mac and Windows. Its not very
difficult to do the music bits in Finale and import them into Word...
OK, disclaimers: I am Micro$oftaphobic, and don't do Word, preferring
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Jim Mays écrit:
Sheesh! Dont be too greedy. With Word and Finale you have two high end
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Can someone offer any suggestions for software that lets you both format
text
(like Microsoft Word) and notate music (like Finale)? I want to write out
lessons for my piano students and be able to let the software do all the
formatting --
I have
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Michael O'Connor écrit:
Why aren't tiffs professional enough? I have been exporting tiff pages for
my own musicological work for a couple of years
At 07:03 PM 12/7/04 +0100, d. collins wrote:
I've always
been asked for EPS graphic files.
I've never been. All the books and manuals I have designed were sent to the
printer as PDF files, using embedded TIFFs for all illustrations, diagrams,
maps and photos. They were going into rasterizers
Regarding EPS and Word:
Jim Mays écrit:
Sheesh! Dont be too greedy. With Word and
Finale you have two high end programs that each
work on Mac and Windows. Its not very
difficult to do the music bits in Finale and
import them into Word. If you arent too
particular about layout, you might be
Can someone offer any suggestions for software that lets you both format text (like Microsoft Word) and notate music (like Finale)? I want to write out lessons for my piano students and be able to let the software do all the formatting --
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Finale
Can someone offer any suggestions for software that lets you both format
text
(like Microsoft Word) and notate music (like Finale)? I want to write out
lessons for my piano students and be able to let the software do all the
formatting --
Finale's text capabilities should not be
I use Ventura Publisher for a book I wrote for singers about reading music.
It handles imported graphics better than Word.
Crystal Premo
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Its not that difficult to do. I am
sure others will chime in with helpful suggestions.
Jim Mays
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