A "Don't Print" box on the expression definition screen would not allow for a mixture of printing and nonprinting characters. For example, I have 5 different expressions to select playback patches for pizzicato: "pizz. Vln. I", "pizz. Vln. II", etc., where the "pizz." characters print out and the rest are display only. Having the nonprinting characters grayed out instead of full black makes for an easier-to-read score on screen.
-Lee > -----Original Message----- > From: David H. Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 5:32 PM > To: Lee Actor > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Finale] Newbie asking for help > > > Thank you -- I had noticed that Hidden attribute but when I have checked > that in other programs the text was actually hidden (i.e. invisible) > onscreen, so I hadn't checked into it in Fin2004. > > Thank you for pointing it out to me -- I take back all my bad thoughts! > And wish they had simply left it as a visible check-box in the > expression definition screen (how hard would that have been to program > it). They could simply have had the box say "Display on screen only. > Don't Print." And if checked it would have activated the same thing > that gets activated by checking the Hidden box in the font dialogue. > > But they never ask me these things, so I'm left to flounder. > > I DID check the OLD but never would have thought to check under HIDDEN > TEXT since it has always been referred to as NON-PRINTING up until this > version. > > At any rate, I feel better now and will be able to assist others who are > lost like I was. > > Thanks again! > > > Lee Actor wrote: > > >> > >>But I've just noticed something about Fin2004 -- there doesn't appear to > >>be any way to make the text non-printing! In Fin2003, it was a > >>check-box in the Expression definition dialog, but it's missing > >>in Fin2004! > >> > >>Maybe somebody else could leap in here with how to define an expression > >>to be non-printing, but I just checked the OLD and there is no mention > >>of it in Fin2004! If it is truly gone, then it's just another example > >>of professional programmers taking a good product and actually moving it > >>BACKWARDS in development. > >> > > > > > > > > You're jumping to conclusions, David. Hidden text is now an > attribute you > > can find under Text->Font in the Text Expression Designer. Instead of > > surrounding non-printing text in <...> and checking the "Don't > print text in > > brackets" box, you now select the text and check the "Hidden" > attribute in > > the font selection DB. The old style gets converted to the new > style when > > you load a pre-Fin2004 file in Fin2004. I like the new style better, as > > non-printing text appears grayed out on screen. Look in the OLD under > > "Hidden Text". > > > > -Lee > > > > > > > > . > > > > -- > David H. Bailey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
