In fairness, I don't think Henry ever had any intention of closing down
this list. I believe his frustration was directed at the Finale *program*!

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Michael Mathew <
mmathew_musicprep@yaho...> wrote:

> Robert,
>
> Your post about the musescore project illustrates emphatically
> how invaluable discussion group participants are! Does this make sense to
> anyone else?
>
> Am I overstating this?
>
>
> Thank you,
> Michael
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>
>
> >________________________________
> > From: Robert Patterson <robert@robe...>
> >To: finale@shsu...
> >Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 8:28 AM
> >Subject: Re: [Finale] Is FINALE worth continuing?
> >
> >I suggest you visit the site:
> >
> >http://musescore.org/
> >
> >It produces very good output...if the output it produces is what you want.
> >It is very far behind in customization features. I mention it here because
> >I think it has huge potential, not because it has yet achieved it.
> >
> >On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:20 AM, dc <dencol@free...> wrote:
> >
> >> Le 16/04/2012 15:34, Robert Patterson écrit :
> >> > Dennis, I would suggest you get involved in the MuseScore project. It
> is
> >> > nowhere close to being able to replace Finale or Sibelius yet, but
> >> > precisely because it isn't you might find that it could be molded in a
> >> > direction you would like.
> >> >
> >> > Development is extremely active. Anyone who hasn't looked at it in the
> >> last
> >> > year has no idea how much more it can do now. I continue to be
> intrigued
> >> by
> >> > it because of its being open source, and more important, having an
> open
> >> > data format.
> >>
> >> Do you know of any sample pages that could be downloaded?
> >>
> >> (the other) Dennis
> >>
> >>
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