Ok, for 1023rd time, those of us who would like improvements in the Staff View are not expecting Sonar to print publishing quality notation.
 
Please see Jerry Gerber's post #17.
 
This should be a sticky at the top of the forum or in some FAQ document.

noynekker
 Mudgel  . . . has it really been a decade since there were notation improvements ? 2003 ?

2003 makes it around SONAR 3 time which is when I upgraded from Cakewalk Version 8 to the newer SONAR format. Other than some GUI changes I don't think there have been any functional enhancements since that time. In fact there seems little difference between the Cakewalk versions of the nineties to todays' X2a. Actually I'd say that with every iteration since those days, more bugs have crept in.
 
I got into cakewalk software because I could use a staff view to enter notes for those instruments I couldn't play, rather than using a controller keyboard to play the parts in. Today I find the staff view a very kludgey way to enter notes as it hasn't kept pace with all the other technological advancements in SONAR and some functions are no longer present. When I do need to enter notes via a staff I use Notion 4 then import the info into SONAR. working back the other way if I need to produce a score or some basic charts I export from SONAR back to Notion and edit the score there.

It is true that Cubase's and DP's notation editors are a little better than Sonar's, but not by much."http://www.jerrygerber.com"  www.jerrygerber.com</a></p> 

 
Have you ever used Cubase?  The Score view has 176 pages in the manual.  I have Sibelius 7 and Notion 4 and from what I've seen so far Cubase 7 is at least on par with Notion 4. There is no comparison between Cubase 7's scoring and Sonars.