Re: [Finale] Collision of 2nds between layers Blank Notation

2002-09-26 Thread Michael Cook
I'm not sure why blank notation affects spacing. I expect there are situations where this is desirable - does anyone make use of this? For your problem with playback of ornaments you could try this: leave the printed music in layer 1 and apply blank notation to layer 4 (this wasn't possible

Re: [Finale] Measure number regions

2002-09-26 Thread Jari Williamsson
David W. Fenton writes: To me, Finale assumes wrong -- I *don't* know that at all, because who has time to keep track of how many measures there are in each section? Who cares? Of what use is that information? You don't need to keep track of the numbers of measures in each section. Finale

Re: [Finale] Another thing that's wrong with EDIT LYRICS

2002-09-26 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 4:56 PM 09/25/02, David W. Fenton wrote: Is Apple consistent in using shift keys on the arrows for moving the cursor to the beginning or end of a line/document? Only in the sense that it consistently doesn't. In many Mac applications, shift-arrow resembles a click-drag, so that it results

Re: [Finale] Collision of 2nds between layers Blank Notation

2002-09-26 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 9:11 AM 09/26/02, Michael Cook wrote: I'm not sure why blank notation affects spacing. I expect there are situations where this is desirable - does anyone make use of this? Now that I'm aware of it, I can think of some times when it would be useful as a kludge, but on the whole this strikes

Re: [Finale] Finale 2002b files on Finale 2001b?

2002-09-26 Thread Crystal Premo
What David wrote is only partial true - yes, it's not backward compatible, BUT! you are able to use these 2002 files - it is a little awkward though. You have to first open those files with 2002 and save them as Enigma files Wouldn't I need Finale 2002 to open the 2002 files? In which

Re: [Finale] Another thing that's wrong with EDIT LYRICS

2002-09-26 Thread Phil Daley
At 09/25/2002 04:56 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I utilize the Windows key shortcuts more than probably any other (Windows-E, Windows-F, Windows-R and Windows-M are the ones I use quite frequently; the only other ones I'm aware of are Windows-D (minimize current window) and Windows-U (MS

Re: [Finale] Stuck key with Articulations?

2002-09-26 Thread Phil Daley
At 09/23/2002 04:54 AM, Mr. Liudas Motekaitis wrote: Yes. Don't buy new keyboards. Older keyboards had two features which make them more attractive to me (and you can get adapters for the cable connection). However, new keyboards have some useful keys, like sleep, wake up and power down.

Re: [Finale] Collision of 2nds between layers Blank Notation

2002-09-26 Thread Jari Williamsson
David W. Fenton writes: In this particular piece, I have no need at all for other layers except for playback of ornaments, so I can turn off second collision without a problem, but isn't it a bug that the blank notation is being used in spacing calculations? It didn't used to be so in

Re: [Finale] Collision of 2nds between layers Blank Notation

2002-09-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Sep 2002 at 9:11, Michael Cook wrote: I'm not sure why blank notation affects spacing. I expect there are situations where this is desirable - does anyone make use of this? For your problem with playback of ornaments you could try this: leave the printed music in layer 1 and apply

Re: [Finale] Collision of 2nds between layers Blank Notation

2002-09-26 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:12 PM 09/26/02, David W. Fenton wrote: Sorry, but I looked high and low on the menus and in the OLD, but cannot find any setting to clear manual spacing. Where is it? Obviously, I'm just not looking in the right place. Document Options | Music Spacing. Manual Positioning = Ignore |

Re: [Finale] Stuck key with Articulations?

2002-09-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Sep 2002 at 8:14, Phil Daley wrote: At 09/23/2002 04:54 AM, Mr. Liudas Motekaitis wrote: Yes. Don't buy new keyboards. Older keyboards had two features which make them more attractive to me (and you can get adapters for the cable connection). However, new keyboards have some

Re: [Finale] Collision of 2nds between layers Blank Notation

2002-09-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Sep 2002 at 15:05, Jari Williamsson wrote: The new method (Finale 2002 and above) is much more flexible. You can turn ON/OFF spacing on 3 different levels (layer/note entry/note). You can also turn playback ON/OFF on 4 different levels (instrument list/layer/note entry/note). Layer

[Finale] I Think My Monitor Just Broke

2002-09-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hello all, Okay, suddenly and for no apparent reason, my CRT monitor just turned purple. Greens now display as black, so I can only assume that the green electron beam is no longer firing. This is bad, I think. Is my monitor kaput, then? It's a Sony 200ES -- about four years old at this

RE: [Finale] I Think My Monitor Just Broke

2002-09-26 Thread Fisher, Allen
You could pop the cover of the monitor, and somewhere (usually on the back) are some screws on the back marked R, G, and B. Try tightening or loosening (can't remember which) the one marked G. That's supposed to help make the gun fire. I had the red gun go out on my monitor and it didn't help,

Re: [Finale] I Think My Monitor Just Broke

2002-09-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 9/26/02 3:47 PM or thereabouts, Tim Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Oops--I should have read this one before I replied. Sorry to hear about your monitor. Now the decision--the repair shop, or a new CRT? No repair shop -- I've gone that route before, and it was one of the most

Re: [Finale] I Think My Monitor Just Broke

2002-09-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 9/26/02 3:45 PM or thereabouts, Fisher, Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: You could pop the cover of the monitor, and somewhere (usually on the back) are some screws on the back marked R, G, and B. Try tightening or loosening (can't remember which) the one marked G. That's supposed to help

Re: [Finale] Collision of 2nds between layers Blank Notation

2002-09-26 Thread Jari Williamsson
I wrote: I have now created a tiny plug-in (called JW Spacing Playback) that you can download if you need it. This plug-in allows you to turn spacing (or playback) ON or OFF for a selection (such as notes in a single layer), without the need to modify the global layer options:

Re: [Finale] I Think My Monitor Just Broke

2002-09-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 9/26/02 3:45 PM or thereabouts, Fisher, Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: You could pop the cover of the monitor, and somewhere (usually on the back) are some screws on the back marked R, G, and B. Try tightening or loosening (can't remember which) the one marked G. That's supposed to

Re: [Finale] Stuck key with Articulations?

2002-09-26 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 8:14 AM 09/26/02, Phil Daley wrote: However, I wish the power down key wasn't right next to the wake up key ;-) Just like in real life mdl ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Collision of 2nds between layers Blank Notation

2002-09-26 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 2:03 PM 09/26/02, David W. Fenton wrote: Can anyone come up with a scenario in which that is even a *marginally* useful option? Marginally useful, yes. If you find yourself in a situation where you want Finale to consistently give you an extra bit of space between two particular notes

Re: [Finale] I Think My Monitor Just Broke

2002-09-26 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 02:35 PM 9/26/02 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote: Okay, suddenly and for no apparent reason, my CRT monitor just turned purple. Greens now display as black, so I can only assume that the green electron beam is no longer firing. This is bad, I think. Is my monitor kaput, then? Maybe. There

Re: [Finale] I Think My Monitor Just Broke

2002-09-26 Thread Richard Yates
Okay, suddenly and for no apparent reason, my CRT monitor just turned purple. Greens now display as black, so I can only assume that the green electron beam is no longer firing. This is bad, I think. Is my monitor kaput, then? Mine has developed an intermittent flicker/ghosting. Are there

Re: [Finale] I Think My Monitor Just Broke

2002-09-26 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:44 PM 9/26/02 -0500, Richard Yates wrote: Mine has developed an intermittent flicker/ghosting. Are there any consistent symptoms that distinguish a failing video card from a failing monitor? Nope. And that symptom could be card, cable or monitor. If it's consistent, card is least likely,

[Finale] Playback

2002-09-26 Thread helgesen
Spacebar, click, works fine, (non-scrolling) at tempo set to =130 with plug-in-Create Tempo Marking. I wanted scrolling playback- went to playback controls, brought them up- works fine- at their default tempo.(about 96?) The dialogue scroll up/down box has no effect on tempo, and play from

Re: [Finale] New Stave added?

2002-09-26 Thread helgesen
Yup! That did it. I gather my 'little blue thing' is an indicator that a stave is optimised. Next question- how did it get optimised? I only ever recall optimising once before- years ago! I guess I just happened to press things, in the right order, by accident! Thanks again David for advice.

Re: [Finale] Playback

2002-09-26 Thread David H. Bailey
You have to click on the little speaker icon next to the tempo indication to get to the Playback Options dialog. In this you can set the Play From setting to be either a specific measure number, the leftmost measure on the screen or the current counter setting. Checking this last box will

Re: [Finale] Re: Finale Notepad - Brilliant Move by Coda

2002-09-26 Thread Rocky Road
And so it came to pass that Robert Patterson spake: On Wed, 25 September 2002, Matthew Hindson wrote: It would also be nice if Coda could facilitate changing time signatures in the Notepad application More pressing, I think, is to be able to change keys. I recommended Notepad to a

Re: [Finale] Collision of 2nds between layers Blank Notation

2002-09-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 9/26/02 11:34 PM or thereabouts, Mark D. Lew [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: (Optional step 6: Complain that it wasn't set that way by default) Blank notation is set up to Show Items Attached to Notes by default for a very important reason -- it is the *only* way to show chord symbols on