Re: [Finale] TAN: Ascii codes

2002-07-18 Thread Philip Aker
On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 06:33 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Please, give me a reference somewhere on the web for the ASCII codes for Ctrl-a-z and Ctrl-A-Z. Ctrl-0-9 is optional. And I mean *ASCII* codes, not ANSI or keyboard scan codes. Hello David, Try:

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-18 Thread Jari Williamsson
Johannes Gebauer writes: The project I am working on we haven't decided on certain things like the fonts to use for clefs, meter, etc. I want to show the client several versions, while also going on with the work. So for each combination I saved a doc settings library. Now I can switch

[Finale] Temporary Pitch Change Indication

2002-07-18 Thread Rodney Waterman
I am writing a piece for alto recorder solo. In the middle the performer cups the right hand over the windway/fipple (to form a secondary sound chamber) and continues to play with the left hand only. The cupping of the hand has the effect of changing the tone quality and all of the notes sound

Re: [Finale] Globally changing measure nos position

2002-07-18 Thread David H. Bailey
There is not, to my knowledge. Johannes Gebauer wrote: Is there a way to change the position setting of all measure number regions in a file? Johannes -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI

2002-07-18 Thread Philip Aker
On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 11:08 PM, Harold Steinhardt wrote: Finale is a music notation program that can do midi. It's strength is notation... The Enigma file format is a database and Finale is a sequencer in the sense that it organizes the data into what are called frames and then

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI

2002-07-18 Thread David H. Bailey
Harold Steinhardt wrote: [snip] Finale is a music notation program that can do midi. It's strength is notation. When you want fine detail over notation, use Finale. Logic is an example of a music sequencing program that can do notation. It's strength is sequencing. When you want fine

Re: [Finale] TAN: Ascii codes

2002-07-18 Thread David H. Bailey
That's fine for ctrl-A, but he did also ask for the ascii codes for ctrl-a, which ISN'T defined. And it seems that ctrl-a is already system-defined so as not to be useable for individual program use -- on Windows machines it means select all. Philip Aker wrote: On Wednesday, July 17, 2002,

Re: [Finale] TAN: Ascii codes

2002-07-18 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 18.07.2002 12:35 Uhr, David H. Bailey wrote That's fine for ctrl-A, but he did also ask for the ascii codes for ctrl-a, which ISN'T defined. And it seems that ctrl-a is already system-defined so as not to be useable for individual program use -- on Windows machines it means select all.

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-18 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 18.07.2002 10:21 Uhr, Jari Williamsson wrote As far as I can see I cannot do a similar thing with Forza, unless I have documents with the relevant settings, and then I have to select the right elements for each change. Unless I misunderstood something, you just save the documents you

Re: [Finale] Temporary Pitch Change Indication

2002-07-18 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 06:41 PM 7/18/02 +1000, Rodney Waterman wrote: Is there a standard way of indicating the consistent 20 bars of semitone pitch drop? Among the many options, I would choose from these two: 1. If there is only one passage like this, redundantly indicate with a text expression and a dashed line,

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI

2002-07-18 Thread Linda Worsley
At 6:31 AM -0400 7/18/02, David H. Bailey wrote: What the right tool IS, how that is concept defined by various people, and whether or not tools can change. And it is this last question (whether or not tools can or should change) that is at issue here -- [big, bit clip] But even if you

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI

2002-07-18 Thread David W. Fenton
On 18 Jul 2002, at 1:08, Harold Steinhardt wrote: What set me off, was my perceived insistence of others who feel, in the composing process, that a complete midi playback with every element accounted for is needed for their proofing purposes. Well, no one in this discussion, so far as I have

Re: [Finale] TAN: Ascii codes

2002-07-18 Thread David W. Fenton
On 18 Jul 2002, at 0:13, Philip Aker wrote: On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 06:33 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Please, give me a reference somewhere on the web for the ASCII codes for Ctrl-a-z and Ctrl-A-Z. Ctrl-0-9 is optional. And I mean *ASCII* codes, not ANSI or keyboard scan

Re: [Finale] TAN: Ascii codes

2002-07-18 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Jul 2002, at 18:50, Robert Patterson wrote: On Wed, 17 July 2002, David W. Fenton wrote Ctrl-a has an ASCII code? What exactly is its ASCII code? I refuse to bore the list with further discussion of ascii codes. My recollection is that all the ctrl-letter combos have well-defined

Re: [Finale] TAN: Ascii codes

2002-07-18 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 18.07.2002 18:19 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote That's the tip of the iceberg, Johannes, and why I was having some difficulty understanding Robert's whole point in the first place. There is no hidden goldmine of unused keystroke combinations lurking in ASCII, waiting to be exploited for use

Re: [Finale] TAN: Ascii codes

2002-07-18 Thread Robert Patterson
On Thu, 18 July 2002, David W. Fenton wrote In any event, I think that having the entire alphanumeric keyboard available to you is quite enough metatools. Sez you, who is currently laboring in the Fin97 dark ages unable even to access (as I recall) all the numerics. The comment reflects

[Finale] Re: TAN: Ascii codes

2002-07-18 Thread Weldon Whipple
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, David W. Fenton wrote: Please, give me a reference somewhere on the web for the ASCII codes for Ctrl-a-z and Ctrl-A-Z. Ctrl-0-9 is optional. And I mean *ASCII* codes, not ANSI or keyboard scan codes. Hmmm... Strictly speaking, ASCII codes are 7-bit values in the range

[Finale] Re: My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-18 Thread Andrew Stiller
On 16 Jul 2002, at 20:03, Matthew Hindson wrote: * more intelligent handling of accidentals within a single bar - e.g. if a note is enharmonically changed to F# from Gb within a bar, subsequent Gb/F#s within the bar should default to the F#. And not just within the bar, I would say. In the

Re: [Finale] Temporary Pitch Change Indication

2002-07-18 Thread John Howell
I write: David's advice is right on the money. Define the action and give it a name (there's no standard that I know of), but be sure to specify a half-step. I just tried it and I can get anything from a quarter-step to a whole-step. And I'm afraid I can't hear a noticeable difference in tone

[Finale] Re: My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-18 Thread John Bell
Andrew Stiller wrote: And not just within the bar, I would say. In the example given, if I type a Gb as the last note in the bar, hit 9 and then [equals] to change it to F# and add a tie, then Finale certainly should be made smart enough to recognize that a Gb typed at the beginning of the

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI

2002-07-18 Thread Doug Auwarter
on 7/18/02 11:19 AM, David W. Fenton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Jul 2002, at 1:08, Harold Steinhardt wrote: What set me off, was my perceived insistence of others who feel, in the composing process, that a complete midi playback with every element accounted for is needed for their

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI

2002-07-18 Thread David W. Fenton
On 18 Jul 2002, at 19:34, Doug Auwarter wrote: on 7/18/02 11:19 AM, David W. Fenton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Jul 2002, at 1:08, Harold Steinhardt wrote: What set me off, was my perceived insistence of others who feel, in the composing process, that a complete midi playback

RE: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI

2002-07-18 Thread Lee Actor
On 18 Jul 2002, at 1:08, Harold Steinhardt wrote: What set me off, was my perceived insistence of others who feel, in the composing process, that a complete midi playback with every element accounted for is needed for their proofing purposes. Well, no one in this discussion, so far as

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI

2002-07-18 Thread Harold Steinhardt
Sorry it came across as snippy, but Harold came across *to me* as colossally arrogant and condescending. So, I brought my own baggage, too. Duly noted. But I assume the readers of my posts are sufficiently attentive to be able to judge for themselves whether what I've said is credible or

Re: [Finale] Re: My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-18 Thread eric.dussault
le 7/18/02 6:48 PM, John Bell à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : The same argument applies to the original suggestion regarding notes within a bar. It seems to me quite possible that an F# could be followed in the same bar by a Gb. And I surely don't want Finale to behave like some Microsoft

Engraver's Slurs: [was] [Finale] My personal wish-list

2002-07-18 Thread Steven Powell
Johannes Gebauer wrote: ... --Add an option to the Engraver's slurs to allow the user to set the angle of the slur going from one system to the next. Can you explain exactly how you want this to work? My Engraver slurs requests are dealt with separately, and I'd really like to know exactly

Re: [Finale] Temporary Pitch Change Indication

2002-07-18 Thread Rodney Waterman
Thanks Dennis and others who commented. I am having fun exploring various options - con sordino a mano and senza sordino a mano (... a mano destra?) with explanatory text block annotation and broken line bracket is one option. Getting quick and helpful comments from the List, as one composes,

Lyric hyphens: [was][Finale] My personal wish-list

2002-07-18 Thread Steven Powell
markdlew wrote: At 11:36 AM 07/17/02, Steven Powell wrote: --Fix lyrics tool so that hyphenated words which cross systems have a hyphen on the bottom system. (Finale currently leaves blank space on the bottom system--I've never seen published music in which this is acceptable) Oh yeah,