Steve Latham wrote:
> "Tom K." <tkorth1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:sJGdnVm_b-DnLSXanZ2dnUVZ_hadnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> This was no problem for Chris Sion's "Copyist" program for the old
Atari
>> ST as it was really a word processor for music notation. Of course
there
>> was no playback, only rudimentary MIDI conversion, and no auto
formatting.
>> So if you left out a pitch and wanted to insert it, you had to do so
much
>> dragging that it wasn't worth the effort - although you could easily
have
>> 5 (or 6 or 25) quarter notes in a 4/4 measure without the program
telling
>> you were some sort of idiot!
>
> I just ran into an interesting one. I inserted a blank page in my score
for
> a page turn. I then decided to just take the two short pieces on the
> previous page and extend them out to two pages. But with Final, TMK you
> can't just move the measures or systems to the next page - they want to
jump
> across the blank page to the next "real" measure. I had to insert some
empty
> systems, and then copy the music to the new measures, fix all the stuff
that
> got messed up, then delete the earlier, now duplicate music, and then
> re-orient all the systems. Of course it also messed up the already
formatted
> later pages, and I had to re-do those as well. Arggh. So I've spent the
> better part of the afternoon making two pages out of 1, which really
should
> be much simpler than that.
>
> Steve
>
>
That's Finale for ya.
--
Joey Goldstein
<http://www.joeygoldstein.com>
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joegold AT sympatico DOT ca
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