Re: Learn from Finale 2014 (seriously)?

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 14/11/13 15:05, Jan-Peter Voigt wrote:
> there is an update of this snippet in the mail archives and I will post
> my version later.

Fantastic, thank you! :-)

> You're right, but I would take this as a proposal to add this as a
> standard command to lily.

Yes, I agree.  In fact for optimal usability, I think it should be an 
on-by-default feature, as the most likely use-case for voices sharing a staff is 
for the rests to be combined where possible.

> One can always compare, who does it best. But IMO the metric of doing it
> good,better,best is not a one-dimensional one.

Oh, sure.  It's just that I get uncomfortable whenever I see people respond to 
news of a good feature in another piece of software with remarks along the lines 
of, "Hey, but we do [other feature] better" or "Hey, you can already do that by 
[complicated method that's much harder than the other software]".

I think that it's always very important to try and understand why people see 
value in other software, and what things it provides that one's own tools don't.