Daniel - As an early adopter of Sibelius (v 1.0), I waited a long time for it to incorporate elements that would be relevant for scoring jazz. Very early on, I met here in NYC with the Finn brothers, and made a suggestion that we be able to apply different colors to different symbols individually. It took *years* to get into the product. Other jazz-related things were slowly incorporated.

One thing that always seemed like a hack to me (sorry if it was your code!) was the way the duration for a chord symbol is represented - I suppose you might call it "slash notation". They are essentially silent notes, but had the buggy feature of transposing. There were always problems with this approach, causing jazz composers to have to continually highlight, convert to pitched note head, move to the correct placement on the staff, and finally to re-convert to slash notation. An absolute time killer, which is of course the opposite of what computer-based notation is supposed to be.

I mention this to you in the hope that this will be considered from the ground up in your new software, and not be an "add-on" such as if felt in Sibelius.

Thanks for your time --