Subject: [linux-audio-user] Still: Finale and octaviation
From: Joerg Anders (j.anders_AT_informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
Date: Fri Mar 12 2004 - 19:09:57 EET
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Friday 12 Mar 2004 3:36 pm, Joerg Anders wrote:
> > BTW: To continue the FINALE2000 <--> Linux discussion: I
> > can't find octaviation (va - lines) in "Finale NotePad 2003". Does
> > the full version offer va- lines ?
>
> Yes, of course it does -- as well as all the notation you referred to
> in your previous email.
Ok, it apparently has to do with "NotePad".
> Why don't you just download the demo?
I haven't found it. But I searched the Help.
>
> As to whether Finale plays 8ve sections, dynamics etc: I have no idea.
> It might, it might not. My guess is it probably does, but either
> way, that's not really what it's for.
BTW: Meanwhile I found va/vb. And it is a pure graphic! Ok, perhaps this
is unimportant.
>
> (Incidentally, it may be true that a lot of Finale or Sibelius users
> might actually find they could do the same or better with other
> software on Linux, depending on what they actually need. But the
> fact remains that there is no program on Linux similar to either, and
> neither is there any mature project aiming to produce one.)
I find the missing of OCR (or better: OMR) is a big problem.
-- J.Anders, Chemnitz, GERMANY (ja_AT_informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
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