[Finale] bracket adjustment

2003-09-24 Thread Mario Aschauer
Dear fellow listers, Can one adjust the thickness of the vertical line of group brackets? I think they are way too massive on 50% reduced staves. Thanks for any insight! Regards from Vienna, Mario. MARIO ASCHAUER Music Director Ensemble NovAntique Linz ww

Re: [Finale] MIDI & "practice tapes"

2003-09-24 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Jim Mays wrote, in part: I have also experimented with Finale Viewer Explorer which, I admit, is getting better. Unfortunately explaining how to download, install and operate Finale Viewer is too time consuming and frustrating when dealing with a hundred middle-aged choristers. (I am almost 60 so

[Finale] MIDI & "practice tapes"

2003-09-24 Thread Jim Mays
David, Thanks for your suggestion. I certainly have been using different channels. Your idea of tailoring expressions with different volume and panning makes a lot of sense. I guess I'll find out how placing them at the start of the staff modulates subsequent local dynamics that may already be in

[Finale] MIDI & "practice tapes"

2003-09-24 Thread Jim Mays
Allen, I do understand your suggestion. I subscribed to SmartMusic just for that reason. However that means that my chorus members ("users") also have to subscribe to SmartMusic and can only rehearse in front of their computer. We are a community chorus, not a school. Furthermore, the accompanimen

[Finale] Re: Finale Digest, Vol 2, Issue 24

2003-09-24 Thread David Horne
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:57:04 -0500 From: Richard Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By "as documented" I meant that Auto Space/Update is not *supposed*to be invoked when the speedy frame advances to the next measure. In other words, it doesn't update because it is working as designed. Thanks. Macsuppor

[Finale] Re: Fixed Line Widths and System Scaling (DOH!)

2003-09-24 Thread Robert Patterson Finale
Never mind. I was mistaken about staff height. The lines are scaled with staff height. I think I was fooled by a rounding error. So (those of us who care) do still need a fixed line width option. And I still don't know what Coda added staff height. -- Robert Patterson http://www.robertgpatters

[Finale] Fixed Line Widths and System Scaling

2003-09-24 Thread Robert Patterson Finale
Someone (I believe it was Andrew) was asking for fixed line widths as a way of achieving more consistency between staves of different sizes on the same page. I recently discovered that Finale is already partway there. I've often wondered why Finale added the "Staff Height" option to system scali

RE: [Finale] MIDI & "practice tapes"

2003-09-24 Thread Fisher, Allen
I don't want to sound like a pathetic salesman/marketing "hack", but Finale is able to save SmartMusic accompaniments that allow you set up SMS to say "I want to hear all parts except the bass" or "I want to hear bass and soprano". All you do is save your file as a smart music accompaniment and you

Re: [Finale] PDF books and Finale

2003-09-24 Thread doug
--- Johannes Gebauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The ideal image format for including notation in > PDFs is definitely EPS - > provided you can get them to work properly, which I > believe is not that > simple on Windows XP. Thanks. My preference is definitely EPS. I'm currently running on Win20

Re: [Finale] PDF books and Finale

2003-09-24 Thread doug
--- "David H. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The question of DPI for your pdf ebook depends on > whether you > want/expect people to print it out or not. Screen > resolution is 72dpi, > so if you only want it to show on screen and you > want to keep it small, > that's all you need. Howe

Re: [Finale] MIDI & "practice tapes"

2003-09-24 Thread David H. Bailey
You're working WAY to hard -- to do what you want is EASY in Finale: 1) assign each voice to a different channel; 2) use expressions with playback set to volume -- create one with a lower volume and one with a higher volume. Place the lower volume at the start of each staff you want quieter and

[Finale] MIDI & "practice tapes"

2003-09-24 Thread Jim Mays
I am making some "practice tapes" for a choral group I sing with. The intent is to create 4 versions of a song --- Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass -- where the featured voice is made prominent relative to other voices & accompaniment which I do by: a) giving it more volume, b) a different MIDI ins

Re: [Finale] PDF books and Finale

2003-09-24 Thread Johannes Gebauer
The ideal image format for including notation in PDFs is definitely EPS - provided you can get them to work properly, which I believe is not that simple on Windows XP. PDF is actually a page description similar to postscript. The added advantage of EPS is that they are in vector format, which can

Re: [Finale] PDF books and Finale

2003-09-24 Thread David H. Bailey
The question of DPI for your pdf ebook depends on whether you want/expect people to print it out or not. Screen resolution is 72dpi, so if you only want it to show on screen and you want to keep it small, that's all you need. However, it will look horrible when you print it. If you want/expec

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2003 and grace notes

2003-09-24 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 23.09.2003 15:53 Uhr, Michael Cook wrote > You'll need to turn auto music spacing off. Grace note spacing in > Finale doesn't work as it should. Even if you set the music spacing > options (in document options) to "Manual Spacing: Ignore", Finale > still re-spaces the grace notes when music spa