Thanks Aaron. In my (limited) experience, the magnifiers affect only the cell size, not the % size of the content. (Boo.)
I see the description text now that you've told me where to look, but it is of limited value since it does not display in the grid. You have to know what to select first. It would have offered only modest help in alleviating the pain of my specific task. Obviously, manually sorting the list is a cure worse than the disease. On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Aaron Sherber <aa...@sherber.com> wrote: > On 12/28/2011 9:14 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > > Hello all. I have decided to upgrade to Fin12 from Fin08. What's the most > > intelligent way to go about converting my default settings? > > I used to just open one of my old templates and save with the new > version, but for the past few years I have bowed to the collective > wisdom -- I start with one of the new templates and copy over my default > settings. I often use your Settings Scrapbook for this. It's possible > that you have many more things customized than I do (like > artic/expression placement, etc.) and that this method may not be the > best for you; my customizations are mostly things like spacing, fonts, > slur settings, etc. which your plugin transfers quite well. > > > > 1. Show expressions in order created (as in every Fin version before > Fin09) > > I don't think so, but you can use the arrow keys on the right hand side > of the dialog to position things where you want them. Time consuming. It > would be nice if there were an option to sort by creation time or > alphabetically (as in TGTools Expression Browser, which I still use > extensively). > > > 2. Change the % size they appear in > > I think the expressions always appear either at actual size, or shrunk > to fit the box. You can make the boxes bigger by expanding the dialog, > or by clicking the + magnifying glass icon. (Technically, the mag glass > icons affect the number of columns in the dialog.) > > > 3. Display the description text > > Works for me -- the description text appears below the expression grid > and above the various buttons. It's easy to miss, though. > > Aaron. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
