Re: [Finale] Underscores treated differently in lyrics in

2004-03-14 Thread Bruce K H Kau
Wow, does that work like a charm, or what? I started using underscores as elisions so long ago that I never bothered to re-read the manual to see if there was a better way. Guess I should go over the manual again. (Sure wish they had given me a hard copy :-) ... Many, many thanks, Aaron. At 11:0

Re: [Finale] Underscores treated differently in lyrics in WinFin 2004?

2004-03-14 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:35 PM 3/14/2004, Bruce K H Kau wrote: >(2) Any advice on other >workarounds, and how would I put an elision character back into my text? I >would actually prefer the character that looks something like a tie between >notes, but have found the underscore to be satisfactory. Take a look in the

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2004-03-14 Thread Katy Abbott
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[Finale] Underscores treated differently in lyrics in WinFin 2004?

2004-03-14 Thread Bruce K H Kau
I have just converted a file with lyrics from WinFin 2003 to WinFIn 2004, and have noticed that WinFin 2004 now treats the underscore as a word break character, like the space and hyphen! All of my syllables are now assigned to the wrong notes after the underscore (shifted right). I have many file

RE: [Finale] Auto-Save Stall Bug

2004-03-14 Thread Brad Beyenhof
I guess part of the problem for me is that I often use Finale to open up MIDI files (just to get a rough sketch of what's going on in the song), or I open up older files just to listen with HP. They are opened as "Untitled" Finale files and always request a filename when Autosave is attempted (whe

Re: [Finale] Auto-Save Stall Bug

2004-03-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 14 Mar 2004, at 04:28 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On Sunday, March 14, 2004 11:03 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi all, I frequently encounter this bug in MacFin2004 -- if you have auto-save every X minutes turned on, when auto-saving an untitled document, Finale will prompt you to name it and sp

RE: [Finale] Auto-Save Stall Bug

2004-03-14 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Sunday, March 14, 2004 11:03 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > Hi all, > > I frequently encounter this bug in MacFin2004 -- if you have > auto-save every X minutes turned on, when auto-saving an untitled > document, Finale will prompt you to name it and specify a save > location. [snip] I have

Re: [Finale] MMSystem

2004-03-14 Thread Keith Helgesen
Thanks for response. I have no midi connected, and have no other use for midi. i.e. Finale is my only midi user- but not at the moment. Cheers Keith in OZ - Original Message - From: Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 7:53 PM Subject: RE

Re: [Finale] iKey problem

2004-03-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 14 Mar 2004, at 07:04 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Following the recent recommendation of iKey, I wonder whether anyone knows how to select popup windows in dialogs using iKey. I can't seem to do this, ie in the Frame Attributes dialog in the Text tool. I want to create a macro that changes t

Re: [Finale] Auto-Save Stall Bug

2004-03-14 Thread Éric Dussault
On 14/03/04 14:03, "Darcy James Argue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Finale 2004 frequently hangs when > the dialog box comes up. In other words, none of the buttons in the > dialog are active -- including "Save" and "Cancel" -- and Finale > becomes unresponsive and you need to force quit. I woul

[Finale] Auto-Save Stall Bug

2004-03-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, I frequently encounter this bug in MacFin2004 -- if you have auto-save every X minutes turned on, when auto-saving an untitled document, Finale will prompt you to name it and specify a save location. That's all well and good, but it seems that Finale 2004 frequently hangs when the dia

Re: [Finale] TAN: Is mp a redundant dynamic?

2004-03-14 Thread Keef
I feel that it's a hiearchy. fff (or until you're tired of writing f's) to ppp. How many you use has to do with your levels of dynamics built into your piece. Some people use f+ and mf+ and things like that to get between the cracks but I feel that it's best to count how many levels of dynam

Re: [Finale] Mac G5 (ot)

2004-03-14 Thread Carl Dershem
Bob Florence wrote: I post should have read 500 bars for parts. I do a lot of big band music. They are large files sometimes up to 500 pages. I don't do any playback with reverbs or anything like that. Whew! That sounds a bit easier to deal with. I have several Bob Florence charts, and even t

Re: [Finale] Mac G5 (ot)

2004-03-14 Thread Bob Florence
I post should have read 500 bars for parts. Thanks for the reply. BF Rocky Road wrote: > > >I do a lot of big band music. They are large files sometimes up to 500 > >pages. I don't do any playback with reverbs or anything like that. > > > >Thanks: > > > >BF > > if the "music" you do is predomi

Re: [Finale] MacFin04 install issues

2004-03-14 Thread Philip Aker
On Sunday, Mar 14, 2004, at 06:35 US/Pacific, Philip Aker wrote: ... and _possibly_ if you re-build the OS 9 desktop after removing old Finales. and here are some lines for the 'Terminal' utility to clear the icon caches on OS X: rm ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices.UserCache.csstore; s

Re: [Finale] 30 day Disabled Fin2004 as a demo?

2004-03-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.03.2004 14:40 Uhr, Rocky Road wrote > Is there a Finale 2004 macintosh demo available? Otherwise, without a > Finale free for OSX, a time-out full Finale is the only thing left > that would run (not that I am saying it is right to use it that way). Yes, there is a demo available. It prints

Re: [Finale] MacFin04 install issues

2004-03-14 Thread Philip Aker
Robert Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Has anyone seen this? When I installed MacFin04 (finally) I get the following error message every time I start up: Extract Lyrics: Plugin icon missing: -1409 Also, I always have to go thru the Tips and MIDI Setup rigamarole, like it doesn't know how to save m

Re: [Finale] iKey problem

2004-03-14 Thread Steve G.
On Mar 14, 2004, at 6:04 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Following the recent recommendation of iKey, [...] I want to create a macro that changes the text block alignment. This is one of the limitations of iKey. There is a way to do it but it's not as elegant as Quickeys was in OS 9. Use "simulate m

Re: [Finale] 30 day Disabled Fin2004 as a demo?

2004-03-14 Thread Rocky Road
> It is, however, a challenge-response registration code, and I imagine Coda would not give out more than two keys per registration without a very good reason, so there isn't much chance someone is going to be able to activate it. What if cracking a time-disabled version is much easier than th

Re: [Finale] 30 day Disabled Fin2004 as a demo?

2004-03-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.03.2004 13:30 Uhr, David H. Bailey wrote > It may well not be the SAME demo that Finale2004 becomes after 30 days > without registration. There may be something else that is disabled in > the demo. For instance, are all the same fonts installed with the > official demo? All the same plug-

Re: [Finale] 30 day Disabled Fin2004 as a demo?

2004-03-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.03.2004 13:20 Uhr, Rocky Road wrote >> I am not saying that the demo is illegal, but the version that can be made a >> full version with a registration code is not as such a demo. You have agreed >> to it's license, and that prohibits giving it away. It is true that it runs >> in Demo _mode_

Re: [Finale] 30 day Disabled Fin2004 as a demo?

2004-03-14 Thread David H. Bailey
It may well not be the SAME demo that Finale2004 becomes after 30 days without registration. There may be something else that is disabled in the demo. For instance, are all the same fonts installed with the official demo? All the same plug-ins? Of course since you can't save or print, I don'

Re: [Finale] 30 day Disabled Fin2004 as a demo?

2004-03-14 Thread Rocky Road
On 14.03.2004 9:16 Uhr, Mr. Liudas Motekaitis wrote What makes you say it's illegal if you can download a demo directly from the CODA website? I am not saying that the demo is illegal, but the version that can be made a full version with a registration code is not as such a demo. You have agreed

[Finale] iKey problem

2004-03-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Following the recent recommendation of iKey, I wonder whether anyone knows how to select popup windows in dialogs using iKey. I can't seem to do this, ie in the Frame Attributes dialog in the Text tool. I want to create a macro that changes the text block alignment. Johannes -- http://www.musikma

Re: [Finale] 30 day Disabled Fin2004 as a demo?

2004-03-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.03.2004 9:16 Uhr, Mr. Liudas Motekaitis wrote > What makes you say it's illegal if you can download a demo directly from the > CODA website? I am not saying that the demo is illegal, but the version that can be made a full version with a registration code is not as such a demo. You have agr

Re: [Finale] Opentype fonts and Finale 2004 (Mac)

2004-03-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.03.2004 9:30 Uhr, Eric Dannewitz wrote > Yeah. I found that the swing font (http://www.jazzfont.com/) didn't work > for me at all in OS X with Finale 2004. I had to use FontLab to convert > the font to opentype. You could have just changed the encoding. It is _not_ a requirement to use Open

Re: [Finale] Re: JW Space systems

2004-03-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.03.2002 4:04 Uhr, Rudolf van Berkum wrote > I'm running Win98SE and Fin2003a, and am experiencing no difficulties using > Jari's plug-ins (having reset my system back two years of course). Which is a little annoying since your messages sort in the wrong year for this mailing list. ;-) Joha

Re: [Finale] Opentype fonts and Finale 2004 (Mac)

2004-03-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Matthew, concerning the changes necessary for fonts to be used in FinMac2k4, you should read the relevant chapter 29 in the manual. You'll find this on page 37 in chapter 29. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _

RE: [Finale] MMSystem

2004-03-14 Thread Brad Beyenhof
Keith: Are you running any other MIDI-utilizing programs at the same time? If so, you may want to use a program called MIDI-OX to split your MIDI device's resources. It will basically take any MIDI IN or MIDI OUT device and split it into up to 8 "virtual ports." For instance, I currently have m

Re: [Finale] Opentype fonts and Finale 2004 (Mac)

2004-03-14 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Yeah. I found that the swing font (http://www.jazzfont.com/) didn't work for me at all in OS X with Finale 2004. I had to use FontLab to convert the font to opentype. Emails to the author went unanswered (rude, but oh well) Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 13.03.2004 23:15 Uhr, Matthew Hinds

Re: [Finale] 30 day Disabled Fin2004 as a demo?

2004-03-14 Thread Mr. Liudas Motekaitis
What makes you say it's illegal if you can download a demo directly from the CODA website? Liudas - Original Message - From: "Johannes Gebauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Finale list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:05 AM Subject: Re: [Finale] 30 day Disabled Fin2004 as

[Finale] MMSystem

2004-03-14 Thread Keith Helgesen
Please, anyone tell me how to correct an error dialogue box which pops up randomly. I have no midi keyboard connected at the moment- (can't afford to update from my 20 year old Yamaha yet!) So I'm using all 'qwerty' keyboard and mouse.   I am running Fin 2001 on Windows 98. Plenty of RAM.  I

Re: [Finale] Opentype fonts and Finale 2004 (Mac)

2004-03-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 13.03.2004 23:15 Uhr, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote >> From reading on the Finale forums, it seems that Finale 2004 OS X will only > allow Opentype fonts to be used for certain (hopefully not all!) elements. > This is causing me quite a bit of grief as the Opus Font, for example, is a

Re: [Finale] 30 day Disabled Fin2004 as a demo?

2004-03-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.03.2004 1:22 Uhr, Rocky Road wrote > After 30 days without registering, Finale 2004 is still usable but > cannot save or print, effectively a demo version of the software. > > Does anyone know if there is anything wrong with leaving this "demo" > version installed on a computer, when you ha