Re: Request for feedback on 'lobbying' paper

[Colin Hall]

Urs Liska writes:

> Am Samstag, den 20.04.2013, 12:13 +0100 schrieb Graham Percival:
>> 
>> By contrast, using a text-based tool (especially in conjunction
>> with source control such as git) leaves me in control.  If
>> anything breaks (which it does occasionally), then I can easily
>> compare the previous (working) input to the current version and
>> figure how what I did wrong.
>> 
>> - Graham
>
> This is speaking from my heart :-)
>
> Of course it isn't fair to keep a judgment in one's heart that is based
> on software more than a decade old, but my most prominent recollection
> of my work with Finale is:
> - Enter some music
> - Make corrections: 
>   - Move an object
>   - switch directions (of stems, slurs ...)
>   - break beams manually
> - Hit "Update Layout"
> - Tear my hair out because Finale reverted (as an average)
>   half of my manual decisions.
>   Then I didn't have the faintest idea that there is something
>   like a 'text format' where such decisions could be
>   stored explicitely

Attaboy! Now you're talking.

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall