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From: mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: music typesetting & text notation..
Message-ID: <485@artsnet.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 89 17:54:23 GMT
References: <1403@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <479@artsnet.UUCP> <290@gotham.COM>
Reply-To: mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
Organization: ARTSNET  Atlanta, GA  USA
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In article <290@gotham.COM> sdo@piccolo.Sun.COM (Scott Oaks - Sun Consulting NYC) writes:
>
> >The best software package I've experienced is SCORE (Passport,
> >Half Moon Bay, CA).
>
>Well, I can't comment on SCORE, having never used it.  But that Macdoodle
>program Finale, despite having all the drawbacks that SCORE apparently has, 
>(expensive, complex, etc.) produces commercial quality results.  In fact,
>I just used it to produce a score for a division of Lawson-Gould.

Yes, Lawson-Gould does seem to be on the lookout for new contract
typesetters, as I have recently sent them samples at their
request.
  Perhaps it depends upon the skills of the typesetter, but the two
instances which I've seen were not what I would call commercial
quality.  One was far less so than the other.  I would be happy to
be proven wrong by being shown commercial quality results from
Finale.
  All persons using either SCORE or Finale for commercial
typesetting:  I would be interested in seeing your samples
(1200+dpi preferred, but will settle for 300dpi) and pricing
schedules.
  Send them to:

	Mark Gresham
	c/o Symmes Systems
	P.O. Box 8101
	Atlanta, GA 30306


Cheers,

--Mark

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