2010/10/28 Valentin Villenave
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I think Graham already made my point. With Sibelius, I used to spend
roughly an hour per *system*, tweaking everything, pushing
accidentals, solving collisions, manually removing tuplet numbers,
faking stuff using invisible voices that, in turn, caused new
collisions etc. And if (heavens forbid) I ever had *one* measure to
insert or to remove, then I just add to start over (I had long lost
all hope of automatic spacing or automatic system breaks: if I ever
used auto-spacing, that was on *one* measure at a time, and even then
I had to manually tweak things afterwards).
I used to be finale user for some time, albeit not a prominent one (only simple songs for school choir, and i didn't realize many of Finale mistakes). But i remember the day when i first discovered that adding something in the middle of an existing piece of music makes finale abandon all my tweaks... (it was a piece longer than usual). Man, that was the day i started to hate finale wholeheartedly!
:)
Janek