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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)