[Finale] Re: Text Editor PI by Philip Aker (hyphenation)

2003-06-16 Thread Philip M. Aker
On Monday, Jun 16, 2003, at 04:22 America/Vancouver, Cecil Rigby wrote: a good while back (more than 2 years!) I asked this question and, behold!!, Philip Aker ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) developed the Text Editor PI for FinMac. For a while it shipped with a Latin hyphenation dictionary I compiled

Re: [Finale] Auto-Hyphenation?

2003-06-16 Thread timothy price
on 6/16/03 12:34 AM, Darcy James Argue at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just wondering if anyone knew of any websites or whatnot that would > automatically hyphenate English words? Might make transcribing lyrics > easier -- just type them in straight, submit them for hyphenation, then > copy them in

Re: [Finale] $US0.99 - your cut

2003-06-16 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 10:49 AM, Doug Auwarter wrote: *Of course* there are exceptions, but the envelope-pushing of the Beatles or Brian Wilson that was part and parcel of rock in the latter half of the 60's is almost completely missing today. Doug, I don't dispute your larger point, but

[Finale] Re: English Hyphenation

2003-06-16 Thread Matthew Hindson Fastmail Acct
> For a while it shipped with a Latin hyphenation dictionary I compiled. I > don't know if it's available for WIN OS or not. While I'm currently using > FinWin, I still export text files to my FinMac and run the PI on them. A > *huge* time-saver > > After entering lyrics one invoked the PI and,

[Finale] TAN - Alice's Restaurant

2003-06-16 Thread Chuck Israels
Sidebar to all the music discussion: All that stuff in "Alice's Restaurant" really happened. Arlo and his siblings (sister, Nora, and brother, Jaody), were attending my parent's summer arts camp (Indian Hill, in Stockbridge, MA) when the incident that inspired the song occurred. There really

Re: [Finale] re: program for hyphenating lyrics

2003-06-16 Thread Richard Huggins
FYI to fellow Mac users--this program is Windows only. (:>( RH > From: Steve Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I found this a few days ago and it is a time saver for making karaoke files > from a midi and a cut and pasted or typed-in lyric file. It saves the lyric > in .stf format (song text forma

[Finale] re: program for hyphenating lyrics

2003-06-16 Thread Steve Farrell
I found this a few days ago and it is a time saver for making karaoke files from a midi and a cut and pasted or typed-in lyric file. It saves the lyric in .stf format (song text format). It allows you to paste in the text and then push a button to hyphenate it. There are several selectable language

Re: [Finale] $US0.99 - your cut

2003-06-16 Thread Doug Auwarter
on 6/16/03 8:52 AM, Andrew Stiller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > About a decade ago a poll of dozens of top rock critics and scholars > voted it the worst rock song ever written. The problem is that it really isn't a rock song, or at least what we now consider rock. At that time, rock had begun to

Re: [Finale] $US0.99 - your cut

2003-06-16 Thread Andrew Stiller
Curious, I never met anyone who really liked the song. Tim Price Fairlee, VT "MacArthur Park" This song is legendary as regards many things: it's length, that actor Richard Harris was the artist, and, of course, the unending curiosity and discussion about what the lyrics mean. ("Someone left

Re: [Finale] OT: Alan Pollack's Beatles Page

2003-06-16 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 6:30 PM -0500 6/15/03, John Howell wrote: Hey, David, let's not insult the musicologists! This is music theorist mumbo-jumbo, and we let them do it because it keeps them happy and off the streets! Ha! But seriously, music theorists, even if they ARE only talking amongst themselves, need te

[Finale] Text Editor PI by Philip Aker (hyphenation)

2003-06-16 Thread Cecil Rigby
Hi all-- a good while back (more than 2 years!) I asked this question and, behold!!, Philip Aker ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) developed the Text Editor PI for FinMac. For a while it shipped with a Latin hyphenation dictionary I compiled. I don't know if it's available for WIN OS or not. While I'm cur

Re: [Finale] Percussion Notation / MIDI sounds

2003-06-16 Thread David H. Bailey
You have to play around with the percussion staff, defining it using the staff tool -- if you already have the staff in place and written, I think you might run into problems changing what is there, so you might want to define a new staff. In the Notation Style selection at the lower left of t