Re: [Finale] OT LONG: help with adult student

2002-06-23 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 11:15 AM 06/23/02, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: >I get that from my students a lot - "But it's what I WANT!" to which >my response usually is, "Then DON'T want it, because it's bad! Want >something GOOD instead." That usually gets a laugh out of them, >because I'm not as tough as that answer ma

Re: [Finale] Tweaking bar-lines with staff styles.

2002-06-23 Thread David H. Bailey
Mark D. Lew wrote: > At 7:48 AM 06/23/02, David H. Bailey wrote: > >>There is not the ability to hide every element you might want to hide, >>using a staff style. For instance if you wanted to hide every 8th rest, >>you would have to do that manually using the speedy entry tool. That is >>no

Re: [Finale] OT LONG: help with adult student

2002-06-23 Thread David H. Bailey
Christopher BJ Smith wrote: [snip] > Because of the way copyright laws are set up, the person who worked out > those beautiful chords to all those Berlin tunes doesn't get a penny of > royalties, as only lyrics and melodies are copyrightable. Yet, IMHO, > those songs might not have been the

Re: [Finale] Accordion font

2002-06-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 6/22/02 6:22 PM or thereabouts, Colin Broom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> intoned: > Anyone happen to know of a font that includes the indications for registral > stops for the accordion (little circles with two horizontal lines and dots > in various positions)? > > Cheers, > > Colin. Hi Colin, A fe

Re: [Finale] Tweaking bar-lines with staff styles.

2002-06-23 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 7:48 AM 06/23/02, David H. Bailey wrote: >There is not the ability to hide every element you might want to hide, >using a staff style. For instance if you wanted to hide every 8th rest, >you would have to do that manually using the speedy entry tool. That is >not something you can do with a s

[Finale] Re: Accordion font

2002-06-23 Thread shirling & neueweise
>From: Colin Broom >...indications for registral stops for the accordion... this is something i intend to incorporate into a font set i am currently developing. i might do it sooner than intended if you are interested in a copy. contact me privately. jef -- shirling & neueweise \...

[Finale] RE: FinWin2003 beam display problem

2002-06-23 Thread Rodney Waterman
At 10:41 AM 23/06/2002 -0500, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > > Thanks Jari -- I'm in the market for a new printer, so high resolution, > > here I come! > >Just be sure you get full resolution in both directions. In contrast to text >fonts, beams and slurs do not benefit from 1200x600 resolutions. Yes.

Re: [Finale] OT: Book on chord symbols?

2002-06-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 05:54 PM, John Howell wrote: > Any suggestions gratefully accepted! (Also ISBNs, if available!) Jamey Aebersold has some reference materials available as free downloads from his web site. Not sure precisely what you're after, but you might look at "The Scale Syl

[Finale] OT: Book on chord symbols?

2002-06-23 Thread John Howell
If there's one available, I'd like to add a text on chord symbols to the materials used in my vocal/choral arranging course. Preferably something brief, clear, easy to understand. I wouldn't mind something that's on line, as long as it is also brief, clear, and easy to understand. I've made my

Re: [Finale] ANN: Plug-In Updates

2002-06-23 Thread Philip Aker
Thanks Richard, I think my real link is actually just "http://www.aker.ca/"; which I mixed up with the site address for uploading and downloading (i.e. what I was doing just before the post). Not that any Windows users would have it, but the "homepage" address also a synonym for the iDisk fac

Re: [Finale] OT LONG: help with adult student

2002-06-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 11:27 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: > Because of the way copyright laws are set up, the person who worked out > those beautiful chords to all those Berlin tunes doesn't get a penny of > royalties, as only lyrics and melodies are copyrightable. Yet, IMHO, > those

Re: [Finale] OT LONG: help with adult student

2002-06-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 22 Jun 2002, at 17:20, John Howell wrote: > In the > long run, he'll have to learn by trial and error, just like everybody else. > (Except, perhaps, Mozart. I'm not sure he EVER made any errors!) Yes, Mozart made errors. Lots of his earliest works were written down by his father, and it's

Re: [Finale] Windows 95 crashing problems.

2002-06-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 Jun 2002, at 6:43, Michael Edwards wrote: > [David W. Fenton:] > > >As to Win95 crashing, well, what do you mean? > > Well, different things on different occasions. Sometimes WordPad or > Outlook Express or (most of all) Internet Explorer crashes ("illegal operation" > message). In

Re: [Finale] OT LONG: help with adult student

2002-06-23 Thread Chuck Israels
At 11:27 AM -0400 6/23/02, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: >At 5:20 PM -0500 6/22/02, John Howell wrote: >> >> >>Irving Berlin not only survived but flourished not being able to read or >>write a note of music. He could play what he wanted (supposedly only in >>the key of F#, and I guess the pianos r

Re: [Finale] ANN: Plug-In Updates

2002-06-23 Thread richard
That link did not work, but this one does: http://homepage.mac.com/philip_aker/index.html Richard Yates > This announcement concerns Windows plugins only. > > The following have been updated for Finale 2003. > Compatibility range is from Finale 2001 to Finale 2003. > > Playback Utilities 1.1

Re: [Finale] OT LONG: help with adult student

2002-06-23 Thread Linda Worsley
At 1:14 PM -0400 6/23/02, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: >The term "arranger' is hardly used any more, as his duties in the >industry now seem to be covered by the title "producer", who used to >be the guy who assembled the team and arranged financing and >distribution, but now makes musical dec

Re: [Finale] OT LONG: help with adult student

2002-06-23 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
>On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 11:27:43 -0400, you wrote: > >>Because of the way copyright laws are set up, the person who worked >>out those beautiful chords to all those Berlin tunes doesn't get a >>penny of royalties, as only lyrics and melodies are copyrightable. >>Yet, IMHO, those songs might not have

Re: [Finale] Combining documents

2002-06-23 Thread Thomas Schaller
Johannes Gebauer wrote: > I have never ever been able to copy from one doc to another while preserving > score expression staff assignments. Has anyone? I was under the impression > this simply wouldn't work. No, I haven't been able to either - I seem to remember there used to be a version of Fi

[Finale] ANN: Plug-In Updates

2002-06-23 Thread Philip Aker
This announcement concerns Windows plugins only. The following have been updated for Finale 2003. Compatibility range is from Finale 2001 to Finale 2003. Playback Utilities 1.1 Position Notes 1.0 <--NEW Position Rests 1.4 Update link is

Re: [Finale] OT LONG: help with adult student

2002-06-23 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 5:20 PM -0500 6/22/02, John Howell wrote: > > >Irving Berlin not only survived but flourished not being able to read or >write a note of music. He could play what he wanted (supposedly only in >the key of F#, and I guess the pianos rigged with movable keyboards to let >him do this are right th

Re: [Finale] OT LONG: help with adult student

2002-06-23 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 2:42 PM -0700 6/22/02, Linda Worsley wrote: > >Ah... we did that. We recorded some of the stuff live (with really >good performers), and he was able to see many of the problems. That >was the point where I was able to pull him back to the piano/vocal >version... reducing each song to its b

Re: [Finale] Combining documents

2002-06-23 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 2:49 PM +0200 6/23/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >On 23.06.2002 14:09 Uhr, David H. Bailey wrote > >> I think the problem here is that if the staff names are different in the >> different scores you are combining, the staff assignments are lost when >> you combine. > >I don't think this is the

Re: [Finale] Tweaking bar-lines with staff styles.

2002-06-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
> >I have to admit, it never even occured to me to try doing multiple time >signatures with asynchronous barlines this way, but I just tried it and it >works a treat! I set up three staves in 1/4, clicked "independent time >signatures" on, and changed the the time signature "display as" to 5/4, 6

Re: [Finale] 127 sharps or flats?

2002-06-23 Thread Philip Aker
On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 03:22 AM, Daniel Wolf wrote: > If you want to work with an alternative tuning system, then the > extra places for sharps or flats may well be useful. That is correct. Each Finale "octave" can be subdivided into 100 parts. Accordingly, the number of accidental step

Re: [Finale] Tweaking bar-lines with staff styles.

2002-06-23 Thread Philip Aker
On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 04:48 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: > But Finale comes with the ability to use plug-ins, and you can > learn how to program plug-ins. It is not for the faint of > heart, though, Actually, it's easier than you might think. There is a sample plugin that shows how impl

Re: [Finale] Combining documents

2002-06-23 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 23.06.2002 14:09 Uhr, David H. Bailey wrote > I think the problem here is that if the staff names are different in the > different scores you are combining, the staff assignments are lost when > you combine. I don't think this is the problem either, since both the source and the target have b

Re: [Finale] 127 sharps or flats?

2002-06-23 Thread Jari Williamsson
David H. Bailey writes: > Since nothing else could be done with the remainder of the bits in that > byte (or else, more accurately, nothing else HAS been done with that > byte) the ability to place far more than musically necessary is simply a > relic of programming. FWIW, the same byte is us

Re: [Finale] Combining documents

2002-06-23 Thread David H. Bailey
Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 22.06.2002 23:22 Uhr, Harold Owen wrote > > >>Dear Johannes, >> >>Be sure to create a blank measure in all staves at the end of the >>first document then use INSERT. This preserves spacing and staff >>assignments. >> > > That's what I have been doing, but it does

Re: [Finale] Tweaking bar-lines with staff styles.

2002-06-23 Thread David H. Bailey
Michael Edwards wrote: [snip] > Do these staff styles allow you to hide particular symbols individually, or > only allow you to set a general rule which decides automatically what is hidden > and what is not, and then you can't make exceptions? > Staff styles don't have any particular

Re: [Finale] 127 sharps or flats?

2002-06-23 Thread David H. Bailey
Michael Edwards wrote: [snip] > > Yes, it does. I'm just curious (although it's not important, I > suppose) why Finale caters for up to 127 sharps or flats. Although > 7 is the theoretical maximum, and almost always the maximum found [snip] > top, in generosity of going beyond the standa

Re: [Finale] 127 sharps or flats?

2002-06-23 Thread Daniel Wolf
If you want to work with an alternative tuning system, then the extra places for sharps or flats may well be useful. (BTW: this is one of the features for which LIME has a nice interface). Daniel Wolf - Original Message - From: "Dennis W. Manasco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Finale" <[EMA

Re: [Finale] 127 sharps or flats?

2002-06-23 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 5:58 AM +1000 6/23/02, Michael Edwards wrote: > So allowing more sharps or flats is reasonable up to a point, >in view of this. But why up to as many as 127 sharps or flats? Is >there a reason for this? - it does seem a bit over the top, in >generosity of going beyond the standard li