Re: [Finale] Using OS X Preview to create PDFs

2003-12-01 Thread Philip Aker
On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 02:33 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I don't know if this is a new feature in 10.3 or not, but I just discovered that Preview (Apple's OS X all-purpose graphics reader) can read PS files and convert them to PDFs. It's new. Before that I was using ESP GhostScript. Pr

[Finale] Using OS X Preview to create PDFs

2003-12-01 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, I don't know if this is a new feature in 10.3 or not, but I just discovered that Preview (Apple's OS X all-purpose graphics reader) can read PS files and convert them to PDFs. Seems to do a pretty good job, too, at least on cursory examination -- the PDFs created with Preview look jus

[Finale] Re: Tuplet brackets in slurred passages - Darcy

2003-12-01 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 12:28 PM -0800 12/01/03, Chuck Israels wrote: Darcy wrote: [N.B. In jazz, bracketed triplets are always supposed to go above the staff, so I'm kind of constrained there. It would be convenient to put all the triplet brackets below the staff and all the slurs above, but jazz players aren't used

Re: [Finale] [OT] performance notes in proper english

2003-12-01 Thread Andrew Stiller
i'm looking for some advice to write in proper english some performance notes in a piece. it is for brass quintet with a soloist role in the trp1 part, (a few) strings and piano/celeste. but as i want the "soloist" to remain seated with the other members i need to add a notice. this is what i've al

[Finale] Re: Tuplet brackets in slurred passages - Darcy

2003-12-01 Thread Chuck Israels
Darcy wrote: [N.B. In jazz, bracketed triplets are always supposed to go above the staff, so I'm kind of constrained there. It would be convenient to put all the triplet brackets below the staff and all the slurs above, but jazz players aren't used to seeing triplet brackets below the staff.]

Re: [Finale] [OT] was: curves resolution -

2003-12-01 Thread M. Perticone
oh, shoot! you're right. my bad designed mail filter sent all these messages to my finale folder. sorry about that. anyway i hope the same as you, peace for all! regards, marcelo please note that i'm using the list to reach you, as personal addressed messages are bouncing back at all times. cheers

[Finale] [OT] performance notes in proper english

2003-12-01 Thread M. Perticone
hello listers, i'm looking for some advice to write in proper english some performance notes in a piece. it is for brass quintet with a soloist role in the trp1 part, (a few) strings and piano/celeste. but as i want the "soloist" to remain seated with the other members i need to add a notice. this

Re: [Finale] [OT] was: curves resolution -

2003-12-01 Thread Raymond Horton
No problems here, Marcelo. I will point out that that particular remark about Mr. Actor was private to you, given only in explanation of my reply. But the matter has been forgotten, I hope by all. RH - Original Message - From: "M. Perticone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Finale] Where to upgrade in Europe?

2003-12-01 Thread Eric Fiedler
Hi Dennis, Having tried it both ways, I would tend now to opt for the local variant, that is, for ordering Finale/Updates from the local distributor. It's sometimes slightly pricier — although with the Euro the playing field seems to have leveled off a good deal — but then again there are alway

Re: [Finale] Tuplet brackets in slurred passages

2003-12-01 Thread Mark D Lew
On Sunday, November 30, 2003, at 11:27 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: What if you have a long slurred passage with bracketed triplets that begins low and moves high? Would you mix and match the brackets, with the first few brackets outside the slur (above the staff, with a slur that begins insid

[Finale] Beaming eighth notes/quavers

2003-12-01 Thread Ole Buck
From: "d. collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this beaming by four was only recommended if there were only 8th notes/quavers under the beam: if you have a dotted 8th and a 16th, for instance, you should revert to beaming by two. Dennis, Again, I'm not quite sure there was such a rule for beaming 8th

Re: [Finale] Re: inserting 2 new pages into score

2003-12-01 Thread Michael Cook
Hold it! If you use the "insert systems" command, Finale keeps the optimization with the music, so there's no need to re-do optimization for the existing systems. The "insert systems" command was created for just this sort of situation. Best wishes, Michael Cook At 16:02 -0500 30/11/2003, Dav

Re: [Finale] Tuplet brackets in slurred passages

2003-12-01 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 01 Dec 2003, at 01:59 AM, Mark D Lew wrote: On Sunday, November 30, 2003, at 07:27 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Just wondering if there was any consensus about how to resolve collisions between tuplet brackets and slurs [...] Do slurs always go outside triplet brackets? (Even if that means

Re: [Finale] Tuplet brackets in slurred passages

2003-12-01 Thread Mark D Lew
On Sunday, November 30, 2003, at 07:27 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Just wondering if there was any consensus about how to resolve collisions between tuplet brackets and slurs [...] Do slurs always go outside triplet brackets? (Even if that means displacing the slur ends a *long* way from the