I would like to be able to add fingerings using the articulation tool in WinFin 2004, but can't figure out how to do it. I have read the manual, but I can't figure it out. Can anyone help please? I can't remember if I've ever done this before. David McKay
2008/10/30 Robert Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The most interesting enhancement in the new Fin09a release was "staff > assignment lists," especially as I had made a lot of noise about Staff Lists > after Fin09 came out. > > MM has upped the number of true "staff lists" (now renamed Score Lists) to > 8. I think this may just wave the red flag again, esp. since it proves they > can set the number to any arbitrary number they choose. While 8 is now in > the range of being enough for just about anyone, there was absolutely no > reason for an artificial limit, and forcing those of who don't use more than > a couple to have 8 is no small matter either. (The larger the fixed number, > the more cumbersome it becomes for those who don't need them.) At least they > can be named now. > > I think MM must have hoped to placate all the p.o.-ed users with these new > "Staff Assignment Lists". While they aren't completely useless, I think they > may be nearly so for many users. The biggest problem I have with them is > that to use them you have to go through so many mouse clicks. If one could > set up meta-tools that automatically used a certain list, it would be > better, or set up meta-tools to apply a list at a key-stroke, or even just > listed them as a sub-menu in the context menu. But no, so far as I can tell > you always have to navigate the dialog box to use them. > > All they apparently are is a shortcut for mass assigning "this staff only" > expressions to preset, discontinguous collections of staves. They list > doesn't stick to the assignment. If you drag an expression on one staff or > delete it, nothing happens to the expressions on the others. If you change > the definition of the assignment list, expressions that have already been > assigned are not affected. In looking under the covers, there appears to be > absolutely nothing linking an assignment to the staff assignment list used > to create it. The assignment list is (somewhat) a shortcut for assigning > expressions, but then it exits the stage. > > Nevertheless, being able precisely to assign an expression to a > predetermined set of staves is certainly not a step backwards (from Fin09), > and it is especially nice that they are accessible from the context menu. > You can apply a list en masse by multiselecting the handles. If there were a > keyboard shortcut to apply them, I'd say it would be at least an in-the-park > double. As it is, it is perhaps a line-drive to right for a single. > Certainly not a home run. I'll be interested to hear what heavy SL-users > like Barbara and Claudio think. > > RP > > -- > Robert Patterson > > http://RobertGPatterson.com <http://robertgpatterson.com/> > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > -- www.gontroppo.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
