Re: [Finale] INSTALLATION ALERT - 2004B MAC

On 21 Apr 2004, at 04:51 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: I beg to differ. That is not the expected behavior. Almost every OS X application I've done updates on will leave the older version there. ??? None of Apple's apps (Safari, Mail, iTunes, iPhoto, iCal, iSync, etc etc etc.) do this. Nor does MS

Re: [Finale] to upgrade or not to upgrade

On 21 Apr 2004, at 04:23 PM, Martin Banner wrote: Darcy, Thanks for the tip. Have you had the opportunity to use the "smart hypen" capability? I have had so many discussions with Randy Stokes over the years about including this, since I use Finale exclusively with choral music (I have nearly 9

Re: [Finale] INSTALLATION ALERT - 2004B MAC

However, it's still weird that Finale updaters leave the old application intact by default. This is not standard at all -- the expected behavior is that the old version will be replaced by the new version. We're all used to it by now, since Finale's always been like this, but it would be easy

Re: [Finale] to upgrade or not to upgrade

On 20 Apr 2004, at 05:55 PM, Martin Banner wrote: I have been using Finale 2003 on my Mac quite satisfactorily, thank you, for well over a year, even on my brand new Powerbook laptop. I've been considering upgrading to FinMac 2004, but have seen all the posts here about bug after bug after bug.

Re: [Finale] MacOSX, FinMac 2003, HPLaserjet2200 and printing

On 18 Apr 2004, at 06:02 AM, Martin Banner wrote: Darcy, Thanks for your patience and your help. Everything works fine now. Terrific! Glad I could help. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://l

Re: [Finale] MacOSX, FinMac 2003, HPLaserjet2200 and printing

On 17 Apr 2004, at 08:31 PM, Martin Banner wrote: I have to use the Adobe Postscript Driver, because if I don't, I get a postscript error message from the Printer Utility on my Mac Powerbook laptop. This is really frustrating. The Adobe Postscript Driver is *not* the same thing as the HP Printer

Re: [Finale] MacOSX, FinMac 2003, HPLaserjet2200 and printing

I did that. When I click on "double sided printing" in the Layout tab of the Print dialogue box, I then get beneath that the following two items... Input (with a choice of "Face Up/Face Down") Output (with a choice of "Face Up/Face Down") But it doesnt seem to print automatically on both

Re: [Finale] MacOSX, FinMac 2003, HPLaserjet2200 and printing

On 17 Apr 2004, at 06:45 PM, Martin Banner wrote: Did that, but have to take paper out and reinsert for it to print on other side. Pre-adobe driver, my HP Printer, with duplexing capabilities, double sided automatically. Is this no longer an option for me? I don't think you understood what I wr

Re: [Finale] MacOSX, FinMac 2003, HPLaserjet2200 and printing

Layout -> Print on both sides. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY On 17 Apr 2004, at 06:20 PM, Martin Banner wrote: In order to be able to print from my HP Laserjet2200 laser printer using FinMac2003 on my new Mac laptop with OSX (which runs FinMac2003 in classic), I had to download

Re: [Finale] Re: FinMac2004

On 17 Apr 2004, at 05:48 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: On Apr 17, 2004, at 6:03 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I guess I'll have to recreate my preferences again. I *hate* doing that. I just hope the problem doesn't keep coming back. Do you have to recreate ALL of them? Yes. Of course, I h

Re: [Finale] MacFin2004b Feedback

On 17 Apr 2004, at 12:00 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I note with no small enthusiasm that in MacFin2004b, leaving the message bar on no longer causes Mass Edit and large plugin operations to slow to a crawl. Good work, Coda gang. Mind you, it's still slower with the Message Bar on. It&#

Re: [Finale] MacFin2004b Feedback

I note with no small enthusiasm that in MacFin2004b, leaving the message bar on no longer causes Mass Edit and large plugin operations to slow to a crawl. Good work, Coda gang. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY ___ Finale mailing list [EMA

Re: [Finale] Re: FinMac2004

On 17 Apr 2004, at 11:17 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 17.04.2004 16:49 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote I used to do this, but a while back I found that unchecking "Save Preferences on Quit" effectively eliminated the problem of preferences becoming corrupted, so I got lazy about backi

Re: [Finale] Re: FinMac2004

On 17 Apr 2004, at 09:19 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 17.04.2004 15:03 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote I guess I'll have to recreate my preferences again. I *hate* doing that. I just hope the problem doesn't keep coming back. Save yourself some trouble: Keep a backup of your

Re: [Finale] Re: FinMac2004

On 17 Apr 2004, at 07:17 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 17.04.2004 11:40 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote Interesting. For me, the button doesn't work no matter how many times I press it. The screen doesn't redraw until I close the Staff List Manager. Do you also have the problem wit

Re: [Finale] Re: FinMac2004

On 17 Apr 2004, at 06:05 AM, Mark D Lew wrote: On Apr 17, 2004, at 2:21 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Also, some people -- like Mark Lew -- are particular about the distance between staves -- when they increase or decrease the distance between staves, they always do so by multiples of one staff

Re: [Finale] Re: FinMac2004

On 17 Apr 2004, at 05:34 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 17.04.2004 6:03 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote The Staff List Manager has a "Redraw" button that is supposed to update the distance between staves based on the changes you've made, without closing the dialog box. This button

Re: [Finale] Re: FinMac2004

On 17 Apr 2004, at 12:03 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Also, some people -- like Mark Lew -- are particular about the distance between staves -- when they increase or decrease the distance between staves, they always do so by multiples of one staff space, e.g., 24 EVPUs. It's not possib

[Finale] Re: FinMac2004

27;t be just me and Chuck who are having this issue? On 16 Apr 2004, at 10:49 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: On Apr 16, 2004, at 1:49 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 16 Apr 2004, at 02:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had the same problem with "command z" failing to work from time

Re: [Finale] MacFin2004b Feedback

While we're on this digression -- no one else has any specific MacFin2004b comments??? -- I've never understood why the Cut (cmd-X) command doesn't remove smart shapes -- even if smart shapes are checked in the "move measure items" dialog. Why do we need a separate menu item for "Clear Entires

Re: [Finale] MacFin2004b Feedback

David Fenton: If you're copying large blocks of music, why *wouldn't* you want the clef *changes* copied along with the music, especially when the destination is on the same staff as the source? Because most of the time, I'm copying vertically, not horizontally. Even when I'm copying horizontall

[Finale] FinMac2004

On 16 Apr 2004, at 02:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had the same problem with "command z" failing to work from time to time, and other recalcitrant behavior, like working with the page layout tool, putting in new values for page or system margins, seeing Finale calculate the new data (

Re: [Finale] MacFin2004b Feedback

On 16 Apr 2004, at 01:12 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Seems we could use a general thread on this. Or maybe not. Maybe MacFin2004b Feedback would be more... I don't know... timely. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY ___ Finale mailing

[Finale] MacFin2002b Feedback

Seems we could use a general thread on this. One thing I noticed just now -- the items in the "Copy Entry Items" dialog are now in alphabetical order. Although this makes logical sense, it does mean that "Clefs" -- the one item I almost never want copied when I'm moving entry items -- is now h

Re: [Finale] MacFin2004b in Classic?

15 Apr 2004, at 09:32 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Eric, I *have* a G4 upgrade card for my beige box, running at 533 MHz (which was the best available upgrade at the time I bought it). And I have 768 MB of RAM. Finale 2004 is still incredibly slow, almost unusably slow, even compared to e

Re: [Finale] MacFin2004b in Classic?

rsion when it became available to pay twice. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY On 15 Apr 2004, at 09:21 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: Because native OS X performance of Finale 2004 is so abysmal -- even compared to, for example, Finale 2003 in Classic. If there

Re: [Finale] MacFin2004b in Classic?

On 15 Apr 2004, at 07:43 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: The website says that the download only updates the OSX version. For it to be able to run in OS9, you have to get the CD. That's not what I took it to mean -- I thought the 2004b updater would create a switch-hitting Carbon app that could run in

Re: [Finale] MacFin2004b in Classic?

On 15 Apr 2004, at 07:30 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Um, why would you want to? Or am I missing something as well? Because native OS X performance of Finale 2004 is so abysmal -- even compared to, for example, Finale 2003 in Classic. If there were a separate app for Fin2004 for OS 9, and it ran a

Re: [Finale] Re: Enter key, undo shortcut bugs in MacFin2004

For what it's worth, my Enter key problem was entirely user error. I had inadvertently mapped the Enter key to a shortcut in iKey. (I was trying to Enter my way out of a dialog box in iKey, which obviously doesn't work if the "keyboard shortcut" field has the focus. Duh.) The occasional refu

[Finale] MacFin2004b in Classic?

Unless there is some trick to it that I'm not aware of, it seems that peoples' fears were true -- there does not appear to be any way to run MacFin2004b in the Classic environment. Or am I missing something? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY _

[Finale] Re: Enter key, undo shortcut bugs in MacFin2004

On 15 Apr 2004, at 05:42 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I am really, really, really looking forward to the patch Ask and you shall receive, I guess. <http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/> When was 2004b released? I somehow got unsubscribed from the list, so I missed any discussion. -

[Finale] Enter key, undo shortcut bugs in MacFin2004

Hi guys, Occasionally, MacFin2004 will stop recognizing the enter key. Just stop. You can't use it in Speedy to replace entries, you can't use it in dialog boxes, it just doesn't see it. Other currently running applications see the Enter key just fine, but Finale doesn't. Sometimes, not ev

[Finale] MAJOR FILESAVE BUG in Finale 2004

Hi all, I wish I had a way to reproduce this one, because it's a biggie: Finale just overwrote one file with another file without asking me. Specifically, what happened was I quit Finale 2004 when several files were open. Normally, Finale would have asked me if I wanted to review unsaved chan

Re: [Finale] Mac Finale and Radeon screen rotation

On 03 Apr 2004, at 09:11 PM, Rocky Road wrote: Okay, so my excitement was premature. Nothing has changed. From the ReadMe: VERSAVISION is currently only available for RADEON 9800 Pro Mac Edition. So, no display rotation for the rest of us. [sigh] is Versavision the rotation technology? Yep.

Re: [Finale] chromatic transposition

Hi Bob, You should set up staff styles for each transposing instrument, set to the appropriate chromatic transposition, then apply those styles to measures 1-80. (If it's just a standard big band with AATTB saxes, you will only need four staff styles -- one for the altos, one for the tenors,

Re: [Finale] Mac Finale and Radeon screen rotation

Okay, so my excitement was premature. Nothing has changed. From the ReadMe: VERSAVISION is currently only available for RADEON 9800 Pro Mac Edition. So, no display rotation for the rest of us. [sigh] - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY __

Re: [Finale] Mac Finale and Radeon screen rotation

That's SO COOL! Robert and I had speculated about this several months back, but I wasn't sure they'd ever do it, let alone grandfather the feature into their *entire retail line*! I'm going to go try it right now! (By the way, I don't know if this is totally kosher for the list, but I have a

Re: [Finale] TAN: Rave Act protest scheduled

that I know of who openly endorses this stance. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY On 02 Apr 2004, at 04:56 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: On Apr 2, 2004, at 11:40 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: The RAVE act is absolutely not an urban legend. Go to the ACLU's web page to find out more. Th

Re: [Finale] TAN: Rave Act protest scheduled

A recent story on the impact of the RAVE act: Public policy, however, is not so mutable. Weeks after the botched study was published, its conclusions were repeatedly invoked by witnesses at a House subcommittee hearing on the Reducing Americ

Re: [Finale] TAN: Rave Act protest scheduled

John, The RAVE act is absolutely not an urban legend. Go to the ACLU's web page to find out more. The Republicans have been trying to pass this for years, and they finally got it by appending it to the AMBER alert bill (otherwise known as the Elizabeth Smart act), a very popular bill which n

Re: [Finale] time signature change

I think what Bob wants to do, in addition to changing the time signature from 4/4 to cut time, is also to double all the note values -- turn sixteenths into eighths, etc. This is easy enough to do with the Mass Edit tool -- just select "Change -> Note Durations", then select "Change all durati

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius in this month's Keyboard Magazine

For those who actually have the issue -- what's the cover date? I looked in the Brooklyn Barnes and Noble today, and they have the April issue, which didn't have the Finale vs. Sibelius. Did I miss it already, or are B&N an issue behind? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY _

Re: [Finale] Midisport 2X2 vs MacFin 2004

Could you be a little more specific about your problem? I your MIDI interface working in other OS X MIDI applications? Did you set up your interface in Audio MIDI Setup yet? If not, you should start with that -- Audio MIDI Setup is found in Applications/Utilities. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROT

Re: [Finale] Sibelius survey

This kind of NDA (non-disclosure agreement) is very common -- I imagine the same sort of restrictions apply to Finale beta testers, for instance. It stands to reason that if they're paying people to collect this information, they want to keep the information private. I don't think there's any

[Finale] Character Palette Support

Hi gang, I know you have a lot of pressing issues on your plate with FinMac2004, and I hate to add to the pile, BUT... It would be nice you guys support the OS X character palette. (If you're not familiar with the character palette, it can be turned on in System Preferences -> International -

Re: [Finale] MacFin 2003 and Mac Powerbook G4 Laptop

Steve, Martin said he has a new PowerBook G4, so there's absolutely no need for him to go scouring eBay for OS 9.2.2. A fully functional Classic system folder (OS 9.2.2) came preinstalled on his computer. What he's asking about is an error message that pops up when you try to install Finale 2

Re: [Finale] Mac to PC

a Mac to read a winmail .dat file. I don't see how it would help me read it when I'm on a PC. However, if you think there is a version to use on a PC, I'd check into it further. -- James James M. Cooper -- [composer, songwriter, classical guitarist] www

Re: [Finale] Kyle Gann's Articles on Sibelius

On 25 Mar 2004, at 03:22 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 25 Mar 2004 at 14:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for being monstrously thick, but I don't understand the problem here and I have obviously not understood the initial description of what the writer is trying to do. My understanding of the

Re: [Finale] Kyle Gann's Articles on Sibelius

On 25 Mar 2004, at 02:55 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Also, I think you might not have to use the 12/8, that nested triplets might have worked just as well. But like I said, I found it easier to work out in 12/8. Actually, once I thought about it a little further, the nested triplet solution

Re: [Finale] Kyle Gann's Articles on Sibelius

On 25 Mar 2004, at 02:32 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: One way might be to change the time signature to 12/8 (but "display as 4/4"), which would (I think) allow you to enter the three notes of the "big tuplet" at the appropriate rhythmic points without having to use tupl

Re: [Finale] Kyle Gann's Articles on Sibelius

On 25 Mar 2004, at 01:41 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: What about this example he gives: For the record, here’s what I used to be able to do in Encore that I can’t in Sibelius: Henry Cowell, in his masterful 1930 book New Musical Resources, suggested that “tuplets,” as they’re now ca

Re: [Finale] First and Second Ending brackets in Jazz font

Hi Ron, The repeat bracket isn't a font character. It's just made up of lines. When you're using JazzFont, you will want to increase the thickness of a lot of Finale's lines (like the repeat brackets, but also tuplet brackets, hairpins, etc.) so that it looks more like manuscript. My repeat

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius in this month's Keyboard Magazine

On 25 Mar 2004, at 07:01 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: However, when Sib3 saves files in Sib2 format, you lose all of the new features that Sib3 has initiated, such as colors that correspond to some school music instrument made out of colored tubes that kids whack when they see that colored note.

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius in this month's Keyboard Magazine

I should mention that I found out about this issue of Keyboard from composer (and Village Voice new music critic) Kyle Gann, who has some thoughts on his blog about Sibelius (his music notation software of choice) and about the influence of notation software on the composition process:

[Finale] OT: VPC Taping Machine

Hi all, I have a question about the VPC taping machine. The whole point of the "machine" is to fan multiple pages slightly so that the tape can catch the edge of the paper. But, of course, this results in an uneven right edge once the tape is applied. I was curious how others deal with this

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius in this month's Keyboard Magazine

On 24 Mar 2004, at 07:46 PM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: Yep! What did you think? As someone who has used both, you should be in a good position to critique the review. Haven't read it. Was curious if others thought it was worthwhile. I guess I'll pick it up next time I'm near somewhere that c

[Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius in this month's Keyboard Magazine

(sadly, the article is not available online) Anyone read this? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Mac to PC

us extension already on it, or as an .etf file to see if that does it. (It looks like Brad was right that Windows is adding the .dat extention, & it appears there is no option to stop it from doing that.) In any case, thanks again for the suggestions. James M. Cooper

Re: [Finale] Mac to PC

end of its filename? ==== James M. Cooper -- [composer, songwriter, classical guitarist] www.ModeZ.com - Original Message - From: "Brad Beyenhof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 6:20 PM Subject: RE: [Final

[Finale] Mac to PC

Hello, My son sent me a file which is Finale 2000b for Mac. Is there any way I can open it on my PC? I have 2004b on an XP machine (& have older versions). Thanks ==== James M. Cooper -- [composer, songwriter, classical guitarist] www.ModeZ

Re: [Finale] Hide Message Bar

On 21 Mar 2004, at 06:59 PM, Harold Owen wrote: Raymond Horton writes: (Sorry for accidentally double clicking and sending a blank reply earlier.) So, as long as I am being the doofus here, again, I'll go the second mile: How DOES one hide the Message Bar? Are we talking about the little st

Re: [Finale] Expression positioning in Fin2004

On 21 Mar 2004, at 03:24 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 03:14 PM 03/21/2004, Darcy James Argue wrote: >Correction: > >> As for the vertical positioning, I like an entry offset of -9 pt.) > >I meant -12 pt. Do you really mean points, Darcy, or EVPU? 12 pt. is 1/6 of an inch, whic

Re: [Finale] Expression positioning in Fin2004

On 21 Mar 2004, at 03:09 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 02:55 PM 03/21/2004, Darcy James Argue wrote: >(For note expressions, I think Coda's defaults ("center, center") >result in dynamics that appear too far to the right. I like "center, >left" myself. Yes, but

Re: [Finale] Expression positioning in Fin2004

Correction: As for the vertical positioning, I like an entry offset of -9 pt.) I meant -12 pt. (And even that is sometimes a little close to the note/stem, especially for the dynamics with an "f" in them. I might think about having a separate, slightly larger offset for those dynamics.) - Da

[Finale] Expression positioning in Fin2004

Hi gang, With all of the new options for expression positioning in Finale 2004, I thought it might be fun to have a thread where people could share their preferred settings. (Of course, some people will want to keep their secrets… ) For starters, what do people use for their above-staff and b

[Finale] Mac/Fin04 Cautionary Accidentals

Hi David, I had a post on this not long ago. I think I can explain -- not justify -- some of the plugin's mysterious behavior. I do encourage everyone to write MacSupport (and WinSupport) about this. The Cautionary Accidentals plugin has never worked properly, even after Coda adopted Tobias

[Finale] MacFin2004 Measure Region Bug

Hi all, There is a bug in MacFin2004 that occurs whenever you have 10 or more measure number regions in a single document and "Display Defined Measure Numbers" turned on. In Scroll View, when you are viewing measure region 10 or above, only the first digit of the defined measure number display

[Finale] MacFin 2004 - Display Expressions for Parts not working?

Hey gang, I've never used this feature before, so I don't know if it's broken in MacFin2004 or I just don't understand how it's supposed to work. I have an expression assigned to a staff list that is set to "Always Show On Top Score Staff" and "Always Show On Top Part Staff." When I turn on "D

[Finale] Re: Auto-Save Stall Bug

2k4/> -Original Message- From: Darcy James Argue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 1:03 PM To: MacSupport Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Auto-Save Stall Bug Hi all, I frequently encounter this bug in MacFin2004 -- if you have auto-save every X minutes turned on

Re: [Finale] Graphics tablets

Owain, If you don't have a lightweight optical mouse, I highly recommend getting one. They are much easier on the hand and wrist than a conventional mouse. I have the Logitech optical mouse w/scroll wheel, and a Kensington mousepad with gel wrist support, and this has made a huge difference.

Re: [Finale] Re: 150% shortucut, etc.

On 18 Mar 2004, at 01:35 PM, Rob Deemer wrote: I've even moved the keystroke for Fit Measures back to the Command-M that it used to be pre-FinMac 2004. Hi Rob, Glad iKey is working out for you. FWIW, I think the reason Coda stopped using cmd-M for "Fit Measures" is that cmd-M is supposed to be

[Finale] Hide Message Bar

This tip might be especially relevant for people using FinMac2004 and trying to eke out productivity gains wherever they can: turn off the message bar. This makes a *dramatic* difference in Mass Edit operations like note spacing, and also in any plugin that affects a large number of measures

Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

On 16 Mar 2004, at 05:10 PM, Phil Daley wrote: At 3/16/2004 01:57 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: >You never zoom past 100%? Why would I? Everything is readable at that point. As David said, fine-tuning of positioning of *anything* in Finale -- slurs, lyrics, articulations, expressions,

[Finale] Great news for Ricoh AP2610 owners! (Mac OS X)

I can hardly believe it! The latest update to OS X (10.3.3) fixes USB printing for the Ricoh AP2610! No more cumbersome plugging and unplugging the USB cable between print jobs! Everything works the way it's supposed to work! (And to think I was *this* close to spending over $300 on the wirel

Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

On 16 Mar 2004, at 01:49 PM, Phil Daley wrote: I can't imagine needing to see more than a whole page at once, in 100% page view, that would take up about a half a screen. [boggle] You never zoom past 100%? Again, I have a feeling you might be in the minority. I can't image what possible purpos

Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

On 16 Mar 2004, at 12:53 PM, Phil Daley wrote: "Maximizing" an application is a totally different process, something I would never ever do. It would then take up the whole screen. I cannot ever imagine a circumstance when this would be something I would want to do. You cannot *imagine*? You

Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

On 16 Mar 2004, at 05:59 AM, Dennis W. Manasco wrote: At 3:43 pm -0500 3/15/04, Phil Daley wrote: In a Windows app, it is not possible to have cascaded windows and maximized windows at the same time. As soon as you maximize one cascaded window, all the rest are automatically maximized, too.

Re: [Finale] chromatic transposition

Hi Bob, You can do this by creating a staff style -- or rather, several staff styles. You will need one for each type of transposition used in the piece (e.g., one for the trumpets and/or soprano sax, one for the alto saxes, one for the tenor saxes and/or bass clarinet, and one for bari sax.)

Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

On 15 Mar 2004, at 05:09 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Meanwhile, I just discovered a very neat feature of iKey -- under the Window shortcuts, there is an option to "Zoom (minimize) All". Nice. Except, as I also just discovered, this feature doesn't work in Finale. Not

Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

Meanwhile, I just discovered a very neat feature of iKey -- under the Window shortcuts, there is an option to "Zoom (minimize) All". Nice. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mai

[Finale] Minimize to Dock bug

Correction: I was wrong -- iKey *can* minimize Finale windows and plugin windows. Still, we should not have to use a third-party utility for this -- command-M should work in Finale as it does in every other OS X app. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY __

[Finale] Fin2004 -- minimize to Dock bug

Hi all, The universal OS X shortcut for "Minimize to Dock" is supposed to be command-M. For some reason, this appears to be disabled in Finale 2004 -- command-M has no effect. I especially miss this shortcut when dealing with plugins that float a window on top of the existing document. I hav

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2003 on a Mac G4 Laptop

On 15 Mar 2004, at 03:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm seriously considering getting a Mac G4 Powerbook laptop, and want to make sure I won't have any problems running FinMac 2003 on it in Classic. Martin, No more problems than you would have with another other Mac. The main issue with Clas

Re: [Finale] Feature Request: Tabbed windows

so much easier. If you updated the score (notes, articulations, dynamics) it would update the related parts..... Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi all, As a lot of us are getting used to tabbed windows in web browsers like Safari and Mozilla, it strikes me that a lot of users might

Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

On 15 Mar 2004, at 03:08 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 15 Mar 2004 at 14:43, Darcy James Argue wrote: One minor annoyance in Mac Finale is that when opening multiple documents, the windows are tiled (i.e., the window position is offset down and to the right) rather than stacked directly on top

[Finale] Feature Request: Tabbed windows

Hi all, As a lot of us are getting used to tabbed windows in web browsers like Safari and Mozilla, it strikes me that a lot of users might want this same functionality in Finale -- that it may be faster to select windows by clicking on tabs then by going to the Window menu, or by cycling throu

[Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

Hi guys, One minor annoyance in Mac Finale is that when opening multiple documents, the windows are tiled (i.e., the window position is offset down and to the right) rather than stacked directly on top of each other. This means that if you actually want to maximize your screen real estate and

Re: [Finale] Auto-Save Stall Bug

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

Re: [Finale] iKey problem

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

[Finale] Auto-Save Stall Bug

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] MacFin04 install issues

Hi Robert, I haven't seen that error message, and I don't have the problem with the MIDI setup settings not taking. I presume you've tried to save your preferences manually? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY On 13 Mar 2004, at 09:28 AM, Robert Patterson Finale wrote: Has anyone se

Re: [Finale] Smart hyphens = disappearing hyphens?

On 13 Mar 2004, at 08:31 AM, d. collins wrote: Darcy James Argue écrit: I think I described it pretty exactly -- the hyphens are there in the document, and when you turn on smart hyphens, they disappear. They don't display and they don't print. When you turn smart hyphens off a

Re: [Finale] Smart hyphens = disappearing hyphens?

On 13 Mar 2004, at 08:26 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I think I described it pretty exactly -- the hyphens are there in the document, and when you turn on smart hyphens, they disappear. They don't display and they don't print. When you turn smart hyphens off again, they reappea

Re: [Finale] Smart hyphens = disappearing hyphens?

ake a look. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY On 13 Mar 2004, at 08:17 AM, d. collins wrote: Darcy James Argue écrit: In FinMac 2004, I notice that turning on "Smart Hyphens" causes many hyphens to disappear entirely. Anyone else observe this behavior? Does this h

[Finale] Smart hyphens = disappearing hyphens?

Hello, In FinMac 2004, I notice that turning on "Smart Hyphens" causes many hyphens to disappear entirely. Anyone else observe this behavior? Does this happen in the Windows version? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY ___ Finale mailing l

Re: [Finale] JW Space systems

On 12 Mar 2004, at 04:09 AM, d. collins wrote: Darcy James Argue écrit: Mac version, Dennis. Finale 2004 only exists (so far) for OS X, and the old plugins don't work in OS X. ?? Barbara, who posted the original message in the thread, seems to be using Windows (User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Wi

Re: [Finale] JW Space systems

On 12 Mar 2004, at 03:48 AM, d. collins wrote: Barbara Touburg écrit: Hurray! Today Finale 2004 finally arrived. Great program, lots of new things to try out. But: after I've finished my current project though. So I opened one of the files I'm currently working on, tried to run JW Space Systems,

Re: [Finale] JW Space systems

On 12 Mar 2004, at 02:32 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: I doubt it. For two reasons: I don't think carbonized apps even open in classic, at least some don't We've been over this already. I expect that when Finale 2004 for OS 9 is released, it will be as a separate application from Finale 2004 for

Re: [Finale] 12x18 printing on Ricoh AP2610

On 11 Mar 2004, at 10:14 PM, Fisher, Allen wrote: I don't have my Mac in front of me (I can't remember if this option exists on the mac without looking it up), but can you check "Ignore Margins for N-up Printing" In the print dialog? Hi Allen, Yes you can. But it doesn't make any difference.

Re: [Finale] JW Space systems

TECTED] Brooklyn NY On 11 Mar 2004, at 07:43 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On Thursday, March 11, 2004, at 04:11 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: In the meanwhile, when Fin2004 for OS 9 is finally released, we ought to be able to open Fin2004 files in Classic and run the existing JW plugins -- right? I d

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