Re: [Finale] FIN 2k8 wish list
On Oct 2, 2006, at 4:11 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: with typos and missing words - now corrected below. Chuck Dear Andrew, Bill Duncan has these in a variety of proportions in his productivity font set (hairpin font). They work well. My only reservation is that the lines are thinner than I prefer, and there doesn't seem to be a way to edit them, as you can in Finale's Smart Shape Options. That doesn't mean that I don't think such a thing would be good included in Finale, but you might want to look at Bill's site, if this is something you need often. Chuck On Oct 2, 2006, at 1:48 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: For my own part, a feature I would like to see is a smart-shape swell. When you drag, crescendo and diminuendo hairpins would appear, perfectly aligned, and each taking up exactly half of the dragged distance. The space between the end of the cresc. and the beginning of the dim. would be user-adjustable as a Smart-Shape Option. Such a feature would be easy to implement, and would save me--and I imagine at least a few others on this list--immense amounts of work. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 phone (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 www.chuckisraels.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 phone (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 www.chuckisraels.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] FIN 2k8 wish list
Dear Andrew, Bill Duncan has these in a variety of proportions in his productivity font set (hairpin font). They work well. My only reservation it that the lines are thinner than I prefer, and there doesn't seem to be a way to edit them, as you can in Finale's Smart Shape Options. That doesn't mean that I don't such a thing would be good included in Finale, but you might want to look at Bill's site, if this is something you need often. Chuck On Oct 2, 2006, at 1:48 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: For my own part, a feature I would like to see is a smart-shape swell. When you drag, crescendo and diminuendo hairpins would appear, perfectly aligned, and each taking up exactly half of the dragged distance. The space between the end of the cresc. and the beginning of the dim. would be user-adjustable as a Smart-Shape Option. Such a feature would be easy to implement, and would save me--and I imagine at least a few others on this list--immense amounts of work. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 phone (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 www.chuckisraels.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] FIN 2k8 wish list
For my own part, a feature I would like to see is a smart-shape swell. When you drag, crescendo and diminuendo hairpins would appear, perfectly aligned, and each taking up exactly half of the dragged distance. The space between the end of the cresc. and the beginning of the dim. would be user-adjustable as a Smart-Shape Option. Such a feature would be easy to implement, and would save me--and I imagine at least a few others on this list--immense amounts of work. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] FIN 2k8 wish list
Friends: David Bailey wrote, and I snipped Perhaps in Finale2008, text block handling will be improved. and rearranged When I drag-enclose the handles for multiple text blocks, none of the layout possibilities are active. This is a serious oversight on Finale's part, in my opinion. I can understand some of the options not being available, but if for instance a user wishes to move them all to a different page (as Dennis is wishing to do) that should be an active option with multiple text blocks selected, as should left-right-center alignment options. Same for text size, style, etc. In addition to the capabilities for text block handling that David suggests, I have a couple other ideas I'd like to see implemented: 1) the ability to open the text block attributes dialog from the text block editing dialog; 2) the ability to open a specific text block item dialog for editing, from the text block attributes dialog box; 3) the ability to edit a specific text block item without selecting it in the score; 4) for a text block which has location values outside the range of the page, an alias handle just outside the edge of the page, by which the block can be selected; 5) the ability to attach a smart shape to a text block (or graphic). Examples of utility of the some of the above: Item 1 above would be useful if one were editing a movement title, and wanted to make certain that the line was offset from the page edge, instead of from the margin. The ability to open the text block attributes would avoid the need to back out to the document, and select the attributes from the drop down menu, or by right-clicking (in windows) the handle of the text block to open the menu. This would also allow one to access the attributes of a block which has been shifted to a point that is unreachable for editing, as when one intends to set a block .250 (one fourth) of an inch from the right margin, and inadvertantly omits the decimal point, so that the block is defined to be 250 inches from the right margin. Item 2 is useful when one has adjusted the attributes (say from center alignment verically, to alignment from the bottom), and wants to make sure it is not advisable to add a Item 5 would permit the definition of a smart line to use as a rule on a title page. ns ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
