Re: OT Micro$oft Word [was: Re: [Finale] OT A brief heads-up]
At 12:43 PM +0200 9/14/07, shirling neueweise wrote: __In perpetuity.__ this is a utopic ideal that so far has seen no concrete reality 7-bit ASCII. Works now, always has and always will. It will be understood until the fall of civilization. After that no one will give a squat about computer files. It doesn't matter that converters can translate the files today. What matters is whether the files can be reliably, completely and accurately read ten, twenty, fifty, one-hundred years from now. probably only through migration. And your point is? This is about world-wide and perpetual standards. Implicit and certain migration, at any time, is the point. DesignStudio 2194 has to have the ability to read and render the document as originally intended in 2007: From digital data found in 2194, but created in 2007. To do this it has to rely on standards created in 2007. Standards that are fully and completely entered into the public domain, so that the programmers of DesignStudio 2194 can incorporate them into their program. I think the whole question's moot anyway: PDF is the only real standard out there. so were cassettes once. (Neither of us are that stupid. Please don't try obfuscating into the ridiculous.) Cassettes are a physical medium. PDFs are data, regardless of a physical medium. The format of PDF is (to my knowledge) _completely_ published. It is out in the wild and used and supported by numerous programmers. From this I posit that PDF documents found two-hundred years hence will not only be decipherable, but be replicated exactly as they were originally intended. Any printer who takes anything other than a PDF is just waiting for the lawyers to swarm. that's a bit over the top, don't you think? No. It's not. PDF into a color-managed output workflow on CMYK presses can do a very good job of matching RGB contract (signed) proofs. Any other format is up in the air, most of them damn-bad on their policies. Microsoft's has been all over the planet with their renditions of doc and picts. Advertisers sue publishers every day over color constancy and correctness. I wouldn't take anything other than a color-managed PDF for any reason. -=-Dennis . ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Staff names
Hi, Does anyone know if there's a way to change an abbreviated staff name for a single system. I have a large score with SATB and for one movement, I would like to put it on two staves rather than four. I can think of a couple of long irritating workarounds, but I'm hoping there's an easy way. Thanks. John John Armstrong University of Ottawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out my web page at http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~jarmstro! ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] FinMac2008 - disappearing Prefs menu?
When working with Finale 2008 yesterday, I noticed that the Preferences menu item and all associated submenus (from the Finale 2008 menu) had vanished. It was still possible to invoke the Program Options and Document Options via the keyboard shortcuts, but the Measurement Units and Enharmonic Spelling became inaccessible. The problem persisted until the program was quit and relaunched. Has anyone else observed this? Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Staff names
At 02:10 PM 9/15/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there's a way to change an abbreviated staff name for a single system. Use a staff style with the changed abbreviated staff name. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Bar lines
I have a choral score which has Sop 1, Sop 11, etc. through Bass 1 and Bass 11. In the upper three staff groups, the bar lines appear only on individual staves, not through both staves. In the B 1/ B11 staves, however, they do go through both staves. I went into the Group Attributes dialog box and deselected through and opted for Single staffs for the bar lines, but could not get it to change to single staff bar lines. Any thoughts? Yes, I was in page view, if that matters. Thanks, Dean Dean M. Estabrook http://deanestabrook.googlepages.com/home Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Select partial measures
Hi, I'm returning to this list after being away for several years. I just upgraded from Finale 2002 to 2008 and I'm trying to catch up with the changes. My question is, where is the menu item Select partial measures or the equivalent to it? I searched Select Partial Measures in the Finale 2008 Help Index, found it and clicked on it, but that led me to a page explaining Edit/Select Region instead. Thanks in advance. -- Haroldo Mauro Jr. http://myspace.com/haroldomauro http://hmauro.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Select partial measures
On Sep 15, 2007, at 5:48 PM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: where is the menu item Select partial measures On Mac it's just a click=drag thing using the selection tool. Dick H ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Select partial measures
At 08:48 PM 9/15/2007, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: Hi, I'm returning to this list after being away for several years. I just upgraded from Finale 2002 to 2008 and I'm trying to catch up with the changes. My question is, where is the menu item Select partial measures or the equivalent to it? Finale 2008 works as though select partial measures is always on, although it's much more accurate and flexible than the old select partial measures. To get a handle on how this all works, go to the Encyclopedia section of the help file and drill down to Selecting music under S. You'll see the various keyboard and mouse shortcuts for working with partial and full measure selection. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Select partial measures
On Sep 15, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: Hi, I'm returning to this list after being away for several years. I just upgraded from Finale 2002 to 2008 and I'm trying to catch up with the changes. My question is, where is the menu item Select partial measures or the equivalent to it? I searched Select Partial Measures in the Finale 2008 Help Index, found it and clicked on it, but that led me to a page explaining Edit/Select Region instead. Thanks in advance. Select Partial Measures is on all the time in 2008. If you click on a measure, the entire measure is selected. If you drag AROUND a part of a measure, only the part of the measure is selected, unless you hold down the shift key, in which case the whole measure is selected. Read the page they sent you to. Lots of good info there to help you. Christopher ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Staff names
On Sep 15, 2007, at 3:59 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 02:10 PM 9/15/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there's a way to change an abbreviated staff name for a single system. Use a staff style with the changed abbreviated staff name. And assign it to a metatool so that you can assign it with one click anywhere you need it. Christopher ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
