At 10:18 AM +0200 6/21/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >Imagine this: I have been given a few Finale files to clean up, that were >engraved by someone else. All fingerings, Manual indications (organ music), >tempoindications etc have been entered as _page text blocks_. And I am the >person who has to clean everything up - meaning having to enter all of this >again...
My condolences. I've spent the last couple of years importing Encore files into Finale, and since most things other"float", they all have to be re-entered. Lyrics were, of course, in text blocks, and had to be re-entered and removed, and slurs were just sort of any old where, and had to replaced with slurs that behave (when I could figure out where they REALLY belonged). And because you have to TELL Encore to align notes, and because Encore doesn't CARE if there are 4 1/2 beats in a 4/4 measure, I had to clean up all those as well. Fortunately, Finale imported things correctly... aligning vertically automatically, and the extra notes were thrown into the next measure or enough out of alignment and easy to spot. And of course the beaming was helter skelter, because my employer had no idea of how to group notes in patterns, and Encore will go along with all sorts of nonsense... Most 9/8 measures were all flagged eighth notes. Except where they were occasionally flagged in groups of two or five or whatever. And then there was the "spelling" (one long melisma had an accidental on every note G G# Gnat Gb Gnat etc... and, for example, an Ab major chords spelled Ab C D#. Grueling. At least I was well paid. But it's not the kind of thing I want to spend my life doing. I sympathize with your text block chore, Johannes. I hope you are well compensated for your efforts. Linda Worsley -- Hear the music at: http://www.ganymuse.com/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
