Mikel K. Smith wrote:
Hope someone has some ideas - I use Finale 2000; just a very limited amateur so upgrade isn't realistic. Downloaded Notepad yesterday so I could read some files from newer Finale versions. Questions: Is it possible to open newer Notepad files with F2K? If not, is there a way to save Notepad as midi? And finally, if not; a Notepad only problem: I'm transposing files from Bass Clef to Treble. Is there a way to change the clef? I can't see it - what I've been doing is opening a new, blank file w/treble clef, and copy/paste the notation from the bass file. For some reason, the dynamics (bass file originally created with newer Finale) appear fine on the bass file, but when pasted to treble, there's multiple markings superimposed on each other; and I can't select them to delete them. Help file says to use articulation tool, but no handle appears on dynamics. Can't select/delete dynamics on original bass file either. Any ideas?
I don't use Notepad so I can't be sure, but if it can save files as midi files, that would be one of the file types in the drop-down menu at the Save As Type: blank in the Save dialog. It isn't a separate item in the file menu, same as with Finale.
It isn't much of an editing program, it is mainly there as a viewer so that others who don't use Finale (or are using older versions) can view Finale files. Don't expect much from it.
The only idea I have is to put a couple of dollars each week into a coffee can expressly for saving up to buy an upgrade of Finale (the new version is usually released in August these days).
The dynamics would be expressions, not articulations, so you're trying with the wrong tool. Remember that NotePad is simply a tiny subset of Finale, so things work basically the same as with Finale, with the exception that most of Finale's functionality is disabled in Notepad.
There's a reason Notepad is free. -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
