On Apr 6, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Very true. I got asked last night about the rehearsal font on a
chart I brought in. I was like "um....well....it's complicated,
I'll let you know about the status."
Which is what by the way? Nick and Vince are....whom?
Nick Carter and Vince Leonard, both of whom contacted me for help in
communicating with Bill's sister, in order to secure rights to the
material. I have met Vince (He is the coauthor of a good book on
mastering Finale - now several years old but still useful.) and had
email communication with Nick (NC publications or something like that
- forget exactly, but he sells a bunch of related stuff and seems
like a another good person to do this.) but, up until now, neither of
them has made any headway.
Chuck
It would be absolutely great to see MakeMusic buy up Bill's stuff
and include it in future versions of Finale....but perhaps that is
a pipe dream.....
Chuck Israels wrote:
Indeed, this has been a bugaboo for years, and only constant
carping and complaining will get MM's attention.
The available defense for advanced jazz chord symbol users is to
spend time (a lot of time, unfortunately) creating the chord
suffixes you like, saving them as a library and then loading them
into new documents with empty chord libraries.
I don't know the status of the Bill Duncan material, but those of
us who were lucky enough to have bought his chord font are ahead
of the game in this department. I hope that Nick and Vince are
still pursuing Bill's sister for distribution access to the
material. Until then, much as we'd like to make it generally
available, there are legal and ethical obstacles to doing so.
Of course, you still have to go through Finale's chord suffix
editor to change anything you don't like in Bill's suffixes but,
for me, the need to do that is rare.
Chuck
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