I've already sent over my request for Finale Macintosh Defaults not to come setup with alien fonts like Ariel and Times New Roman.
WRT to page reductions though, I've used page reduction with fixed size page text blocks for years. Probably for the same reasons as jef. While copyists tend to work with the idea of page size being fixed, Finale also enables one to work with a "flow" method where the page sizes may be changeable. When using a flow method, if you don't have a fixed type size for publication details (i.e. page text blocks) then in some cases, they may be reduced to 4 or 5 points and not be legible. Also, I personally haven't had a problem with text block placement using page reduction since I started putting page text blocks (i.e. headers and footers) OUTSIDE the margins. 'Nother thing is that I get better results with staff spacing. Philip On Wednesday, May 8, 2002, at 03:00 PM, Stokes, Randy wrote: > Actually, because of this sort of issue I would discourage the > use of page > reductions. Now that you can specify the default system > reduction, there > really is little need to use page reductions. I'd like to see > the templates > move in that direction, personally. > > Randy > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 4:29 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: Fisher, Allen >> Subject: RE: [Finale] Finale's Defaults >> all title page text blocks should be set to *fixed* point sizes: >> title, composer, copyright, "all rights reserved" text, as should >> page numbers. this assures a consistence appearance between score >> and parts, and between the users' various files, which may each be at >> different page size percentage reductions according to number of >> instruments or needs [eg. performance vs. reading score vs. parts; >> string quartet vs. chamber orchestra]. Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
