> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David W. Fenton > Sent: 08 June 2007 22:19 > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and > Finalehad better start coming up with significant improvements! > > > On 8 Jun 2007 at 14:08, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > > > David W. Fenton wrote: > > > On 8 Jun 2007 at 8:13, Christopher Smith wrote: > > > > > >> the clipboard for music seems > > >> moderately interesting, > > > > > > Seems pretty easy to implement, though I'm not sure why. > I usually > > > just use scratch staves within the same file. > > > > Yeah, but this looks like a repository available to all > scores you are > > working on. Kind of like a Garageband for musical scores (like, you > > can pick a lick and put it in) > > Well, it's easy enough to keep a file as a scratch pad, so I just > don't see this as too big of a deal. You could store the data in a > Finale file and build an interface that presents it just like the > Sibelius implementation. In other words, It doesn't look like that > big of a deal to me -- it's a fit-and-finish feature, not a real > productivity-enhancer. > > -- > David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com > David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ >
It's another move with a big focus on the education market, as far as I can see. I immediately saw its potential to draw pupils away from the page in front of them, and to focus on half-a-dozen ideas which they're supposedly using. Or in more competent cases, simply keeping half of a conversation accessible when the bell rings, or another pupil interrupts, or whatever. Setting up a separate file for this kind of thing just isn't an option. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
