Re: [Finale] I could care less (was Re: Finale Digest, Vol 2, Issue 10)

2003-09-14 Thread Mark D. Lew
This message from Robert Patterson came directly to me, but I think it was intended for the list: This explanation begs the question. Explaining how a variant (I say wrong) pronunciation came into being does not justify it in the same way that your previous explanation of I could care less

Re: [Finale] Nukey-ler mus-kulls

2003-09-14 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 4:41 PM 09/13/03, David H. Bailey wrote: [...] We just didn't happen to be around when green-witch changed into gren-itch and we ARE around when nuclear is changing in to nucular. I'm not so sure of that. I think it more likely that the nucular pronunciation has been around as long as the

Re: [Finale] Happy Birthday; was Nukey-ler mus-kulls

2003-09-14 Thread Richard Huggins
Here is a thorough (and interesting) history of Happy Birthday. http://www.attachemag.com/archives/01-02/story2/story2.htm --Richard From: helgesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wow! What a great question for a trivia night! Any idea when- and where? I guess UK or USA- but that's only by the ladies

Re: [Finale] Need advice: strategy for managing libraries

2003-09-14 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 8:33 PM -0500 9/13/03, Craig Parmerlee wrote: I've used Finale for a very long time, mostly as a casual user. I find myself doing more projects these days, and I feel like I am not using some of the capabilities intelligently. In particularl, I don't think I am taking advantage of

Re: [Finale] Need advice: strategy for managing libraries

2003-09-14 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 12:27 AM -0500 9/14/03, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: a few tempo indications: Largo, Andante, Allegro. For me, the tough part is figuring out what font and size I want it to be in, so I only have ONE tempo indication in the correct font, and I edit the text to whatever I need, usually only one

[Finale] Problems Exporting TIFFs with Fin2K4

2003-09-14 Thread Colin Broom
Doing my weekly bunch of class notes, and I'm having some issues exporting TIFF files out of Finale 2K4 (which finally arrived on Friday, having been ordered from UK suppliers on 18th August) into MS Word. Most of the TIFFs coming out have very visible flaws on them, in the form of occasional

Re: [Finale] Problems Exporting TIFFs with Fin2K4

2003-09-14 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:02 AM 9/14/2003, Colin Broom wrote: Doing my weekly bunch of class notes, and I'm having some issues exporting TIFF files out of Finale 2K4 Just tried a couple of TIFs from 2K4, and they looked fine to me, both in my image viewer and imported into Word. If you want, you can send me

Re: [Finale] Problems Exporting TIFFs with Fin2K4

2003-09-14 Thread Colin Broom
- Original Message - TIFF files frequently look bad in Word on screen but usually print OK. Did you try printing them? Also, did you try to open them as tiff files using an imaging program such as Photoshop, Quicktime, or any photo viewing software in your computer? Best, Doug I

Re: [Finale] Problems Exporting TIFFs with Fin2K4

2003-09-14 Thread Colin Broom
- Original Message - From: Aaron Sherber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Problems Exporting TIFFs with Fin2K4 Just tried a couple of TIFs from 2K4, and they looked fine to me, both in my image viewer and imported

RE: [Finale] Problems Exporting TIFFs with Fin2K4

2003-09-14 Thread Brad Beyenhof
Colin Broom said: Furthermore, exporting from Finale 2003 at the same resolution into Word looks fine (this is what I ended up having to do, which meant putting it all in again) This is somewhat tangential to this particular discussion, but why didn't you use MusicXML? Dolet Light is

[Finale] Mac related question

2003-09-14 Thread mbanner
If you are running one of the new Mac G5's or Mac Titanium Laptops, do you know if I will be able to still run Finale 3.7.2 (in addition to FinMac 2003 and 2004)? Don't laugh...I have a tremendous number of files on 3.7.2 which I would need to be able to access from time to time. Thanks.

[Finale] OT: Fwd: Bad spelilng / mnid gaems

2003-09-14 Thread Phil Daley
From: Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:13:17 -0400 Try it and see for yourself.. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer In waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae.

Re: [Finale] Mac related question

2003-09-14 Thread Robert Patterson Finale
I can't speak to your specific question. I have tried running older Finale versions under Classic on my G4, and they seem to work. I'm not trying to do any MIDI, and I haven't tried printing. (But I *have* printed from Classic using other programs.) Hopefully Classic running on the newer

Re: [Finale] Blues key signatures revisitied

2003-09-14 Thread Richard Huggins
I can't think of many justifications for persisting with something that by all reasonable evaluation torments the twin causes of readibility and playability. --Richard From: Chuck Israels [EMAIL PROTECTED] As Dave has observed, the saxophone parts are unnecessarily difficult to read with

Re: [Finale] Problems Exporting TIFFs with Fin2K4

2003-09-14 Thread Colin Broom
- Original Message - From: Tyler Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Colin Broom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Problems Exporting TIFFs with Fin2K4 If Aaron can't reproduce the problem with your files, it's likely video card related. First

Re: [Finale] lyrics (was Re: BUG fix / FIN 2k5 Feature Request)

2003-09-14 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 8:57 AM 09/12/03, Richard Huggins wrote: Is there something I'm not getting? A hyphen is both a code character (its presence signals Finale to do something) AND an actual hyphen (a grammatical character) that you can see and that means something. In other words, it's not as if it's unimportant

[Finale] Re: lyrics discussion [LONG] (was Re: BUG fix / FIN 2k5 Feature Request)

2003-09-14 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 2:42 PM 09/12/03, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Actually, you don't move to the next syllable box in my example, because the seven is on the last syllable of the line. [...] Thanks for filling me in on this. I don't use type in score regularly, so while I'm familiar with its basic behavior, I

Re: [Finale] examination copies

2003-09-14 Thread John Howell
At 04:19 PM 9/13/2003, Andrew Stiller wrote: A question for publishers: What is your policy when a conductor asks for an examination copy of a score? b) hand it over, but nag for its return or purchase after a month or two. I'd appreciate conductors' thoughts on this, too. Okay -- I've seen

Re: [Finale] Happy Birthday; was Nukey-ler mus-kulls

2003-09-14 Thread Richard Huggins
From: John Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] It was written by a couple of American sisters and published in (I think) the 1890s with the text, Good morning to you, etc. So the melody and those words are public domain. The Happy Birthday text was published in the 1930s, and is still under copyright

[Finale] RE: Problems Exporting TIFFs with Fin2K4 and tip request

2003-09-14 Thread Bernard Nussbaumer
I have the same problem exporting TIFF files: it looks very funny (!) on screen. Surprisingly, the image is printed sometimes correctly as I import it in Word, but it is not really handy Besides, I have a little request. I need to insert a vertically inverted grupetto sign: in the

[Finale] TAN: Music you can't get out of your head

2003-09-14 Thread David McKay
With apologies to Peter Schickele I have a chorus in my head and I can't figure out the name of the song. The chorus is sung at the top of the voice range. In Eb major, with the melody centring around F. [I] Oh baby can't you see [VI] Just what you mean to me [IV] [V] I'm livin it all? Can

Re: [Finale] Happy Birthday; was Nukey-ler mus-kulls

2003-09-14 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 3:44 PM 09/14/03, John Howell wrote: It was written by a couple of American sisters and published in (I think) the 1890s with the text, Good morning to you, etc. So the melody and those words are public domain. Ooh, that's news to me. Can anyone point me to an actual copy of the 1890s

Re: [Finale] Happy Birthday; was Nukey-ler mus-kulls

2003-09-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
It was written by a couple of American sisters and published in (I think) the 1890s with the text, Good morning to you, etc. So the melody and those words are public domain. Ooh, that's news to me. Can anyone point me to an actual copy of the 1890s version (or any pre-1923 version). It's one