Is this 2004, 2004a, or 2004b? I reported a bug introduced in 2004b where
notes in hidden layers affected accidental spacing when they weren't
supposed to, and Winsupport suggested I revert to 2004a, which of course I
don't have any longer. Maybe nore than one thing was inadvertently broken
in
To return to Barbara's original posting, though, I just ran
through several
of Jari's plugins on Win2000 and Fin2004b with no problem,
including Forza
(once I set my clock back to 2003). So whatever problems Barbara's having
might be related to something specific to Win98.
Aaron.
The
Another MIDI question. What is the best workaround for the playback
problem, in a string section, of having the whole section go back
and forth
from pizz to arco when only one of the sections changes? When
the celli or
basses, for example, have pizz, the whole string section sounds like
Can I tag certain systems to display full staff names (i.e. the first
system of a new movement)?
I know that I can use Staff Styles, but is there an easier way?
--
Brad Beyenhof
I don't know of an easier way than staff styles, which is what I use (along
with changing certain group names)
Last year I finally got fed up with my guillotine-style trimmer's inability
to cut more than a few sheets at a time without mangling the paper. I did
considerable research and ended up with a 17 heavy-duty rotary trimmer made
by Carl, the DC-230 (that model has apparently been replaced by an 18
I used to use comb binding on my scores, but I find wire coil binding to be
far superior. While it is true that the noise issue may be somewhat
overstated for a properly comb-bound score, there is still a higher
probability for pages to catch compared to wire coil binding, especially
in the heat
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I always use booklet format IF there are good page turns. Sometimes
there are not, and it's necessary to have 3 pages visible on the
stand. In that case, accordion binding, with only one
-in). Has anyone encountered and solved this problem?
-Lee Actor
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I have no explanation for the following.
With a Logitech wheel mouse on WinXP, vertical scrolling always worked fine
in Finale, but not horizontal. Installed newest mouse driver, no scrolling
of any kind in Finale (continued to work in other apps). Reinstalled old
driver, now both vertical and
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Subject: RE: [Finale] Horizontal scrolling in FinMac2004
I have no explanation for the following.
With a Logitech wheel mouse on WinXP
For any MIDI data associated with specific notes, there must be actual notes
in the leftmost visible measure when you double-click its staff for that
particular staff to be selected. Otherwise, the next staff below it with
notes in the leftmost measure will be selected. If you're not in scroll
editing
I've been fiddling with it. I think it has to have not only notes in the
left-most measure, but the notes have to start on beat one of
that measure.
Liudas
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Is there a way to copy page-attached text blocks from one document to
another? I'd like to copy a text-only page describing instrumentation that
I've formatted the way I like from one piece to another without manually
recreating it from scratch. Is there a plug-in to do this I've overlooked?
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Lee Actor écrit:
Is there a way to copy page-attached text blocks from one document to
another? I'd like to copy a text-only page
Here's a strange bug that is new for FinWin2k4a. In a hand-tweaked
extracted part, one page prints out differently from the page view on
screen, such that one measure has been moved to a previous system. I'm
printing to a PS printer, and Show Postscript Preview also displays
differently from
Twice in the past week I have encountered a bug in which Undo simply stops
working and the Undo list stops getting updated (I have the Undo Levels set
to Unlimited). Closing and reopening Finale sets things right, though one
time Finale crashed upon closing. I can't really correlate it to
From the on-line help:
Resolution . Lower Resolution . Medium Resolution . High Resolution.
Technically speaking, these settings determine how many tiny, vertical line
segments Finale uses to compose the display of each slur, tie, and brace.
Instead of clicking one of the three general-setting
I must disagree with the previous explanations of how the Elapsed Time
function works (or doesn't work). It does indeed take Tempo Tool
modifications into account when calculating the duration of a passage, at
least on Fin2k4a. I believe Fin2k2 did ignore Tempo Tool data, and I don't
recall
Lee,
What happens when you export a MIDI file with tempo tool changes? I hope
it's fixed in 2k4 if they went to the trouble to set things right with the
Check Elapsed Time dialog.
-
Brad Beyenhof
I don't know, as I haven't tried that. I'll report back when I get a chance
are display only. Having the nonprinting characters grayed out instead
of full black makes for an easier-to-read score on screen.
-Lee
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Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 5:32 PM
To: Lee Actor
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But I've just noticed something about Fin2004 -- there doesn't appear to
be any way to make the text non-printing! In Fin2003, it was a
check-box in the Expression definition dialog, but it's missing
in Fin2004!
Maybe somebody else could leap in here with how to define an expression
to
Through trial and error, here are the settings I use for orchestral scores:
group brackets at -12, braces at -21 (-6 if no bracket), group names at -54.
I know this doesn't help in using the Setup Wizard; I always start a new
piece by modifying another (recent) piece. Too many settings to take
Pierre Bailleul interrogated the collective wisdom by asking:
I install Win Xp on my new PC and the whell of my logitech cordless
mouseman is not working only in finale 2002?
On my computer: Same mouse, same OS, same problem (scroll wheel hasn't
worked in either 2003 or 2004).
So I second
, or the rationale behind it.
Is anyone more enlightened about this than I am? I'm on WinFin2k3 (until
UPS supposedly shows up on Thursday).
-Lee Actor
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I saw only one public response to your query about suppressing
Courtesy Time
Signatures and that one, which described the measure tool option
controlling
time signature display, did not really address your problem. I was
interested in reading the responses you received since I've faced this
I' ve been much happier once I found that tempo markings could be made as
shape expressions, thus allowing different fonts to be mixed in the same
expression. Now I'd like a tempo marking that includes, graphically: [16th
note]=[triplet 8th note]. Is there any way to do this within one
Well, first and foremost I'd like to see the capability of linebreaks; if
the mechanism were introduced it's certainly feasible to create two
expressions, one without embedded CR-LF's, and the other one with, and use
the appropriate one at each point. However, as I like to think
of myself as
For the ascending minor 6th, I always used the renunciation of love
theme from the Ring Cycle
(wer nur der Minnemacht versacht...). Don't know if that helps anyone
else, though... and to
me, P4 was always the Wedding March (Here Come the Bride) - too much
Wagner?
Linda Cummings
I thought
Which particular bug is being referenced here? Could
you be a bit more specific? Jari is correct. It would
be best to e-mail the request to winsupport directly.
The more people we hear from about a bug the more
attention we can give to getting it fixed.
Tyler
MakeMusic Technical Support
What exactly did you do to fix the problem? I've had occasional (maybe 5%
of the time) weirdly shaped slurs ever since Engraver slurs were introduced.
Even so, the slurs only misbehave at some magnifications (usually 100%) and
not at others (like the ones I edit on-screen at). I've always
I am currently working on transposing a part originally written for
oboe to soprano sax. On the original, the viola cues are written in
alto clef, but I'm not sure I should keep this in the transposed
version. I definitely want to put the cues in the player's key -- so
having a cue in alto
Is there any way to individually position staff names on different pages of
an optimized score? I suspect I may have to change the staff names in
question to group names to tweak their positions. Is this correct?
-Lee
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I did run into a similar problem once. In my case it was caused
by corrupt
data on the page in question. I was able to narrow the problem
down to one
measure, and solved the problem by clearing the measure and re-entering
everything. However this was quite a while ago in an earlier
I have an obscure printing problem that I'm posting on the chance that
someone has encountered it before.
In a 100+ page score for full orchestra, attempting to print one particular
page causes Finale to crash (Fin 2003 for Win). There's nothing on that
page (apparently) remarkable or more
At 04:44 PM 12/30/02, d. collins wrote:
Does anyone have any news about Jari and his Forza plugins? The last
version expired at Xmas...
I think he must be on vacation -- I emailed him about the expired
versions
and have not heard back. I'm sure he'll update them as soon as he can.
On 19.12.2002 0:21 Uhr, Noel Stoutenburg wrote
Although my own personal preference is to have each movement in
a separate
file,
it is to have text blocks on different pages in the score, but
you want the
Text tool (A tool) rather than the Expression tool (mf tool).
Why? The
Does anyone have the score or violin part to Bartok's 2nd violin concerto
(1937/38) available? If so, could you please tell me how the tempo is
notated at the very beginning of the first movement? (Is it Allegro non
troppo? Is there a metronome marking as well?)
Allegro non troppo, quarter
Lee Actor wrote:
One other reason to use the Text rather than Expression Tool is that you
can't mix fonts in an expression. Still, expressions are so much more
flexible than text that when I need something like Moderato
followed by a
metronome marking in parentheses, I overlay two
At 9:11 PM -0800 12/09/02, Jim O'Briant wrote:
Another basic question from an Encore-to-Finale convert .
In Finale, I've figured out the difference between attaching a
text box to a
page and attaching it to a measure. My question is this:
I'm typesetting a theme and variations piece
Sorry for the OT subject, but I know there are several of you who own the HP
Laserjet 5000, and I've had no luck finding this info in the owner's manual
or from HP directly. The tray 2 paper feed has gotten somewhat squeaky, and
I'm looking for something to lubricate. Anyone encountered this
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Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 2:25 PM
What is the best way to indicating a string divisi passage where
2/3 of the
players are to play the top line, and 1/3 the bottom?
- Darcy
Unless a string section divisi is 1/2 and 1/2
On 18 Jul 2002, at 1:08, Harold Steinhardt wrote:
What set me off, was my perceived insistence of others who feel, in
the composing process, that a complete midi playback with every element
accounted for is needed for their proofing purposes.
Well, no one in this discussion, so far as
Dennis, it sounds like we have very similar goals for what we want out of
Finale. For me, the part feature is absolutely solved by the TGTools
Smart Explosion and Smart Distribution features.
Perhaps it's improved. I just tried it -- the module of v1.88 does work in
F2K3. But there seems
...
I'm convinced the whole idiotic notion of combining 1/3 v. 2/4 arose
from a generation of composition and theory teachers being guided by an
error in Walter Piston's orchestration book. Every time I've challenged
the practice, it seems that is the source that is thrown back at me.
Piston
...
I'm only discussing an option that I think would improve handling
significantly, making it more logical and in keeping with how the music
progresses in a performance situation.
Such an option would define a new Finale level to be added to groups,
staves, layers, and voices that
Somehow I go the impression that Finale 2003 included a new feature that
prevented the collision of the multimeasure rest graphic with
clefs at the
end of a multimeasure rest. I dreamed that, didn't I? It appears that
Fin2k3 operates the same as Fin2k2 in this regard.
Not really a
Suffering temporary
brain freeze here. How do I adjust the staff spacing on a full score (one
system per page) forpages 2 to the end without affecting the staff spacing
for page 1? I know I can turn on Individual Staff Spacing to
adjusteach page one at a time, but is there a way to adjust
Sorry, previous message was HTML. Here it is in plain text:
Suffering temporary brain freeze here. How do I adjust the staff spacing on
a full score (one system per page) for pages 2 to the end without affecting
the staff spacing for page 1? I know I can turn on Individual Staff Spacing
to
Sure I need to get paid for my work, but why not from a
collective source instead of from individuals. Some sort of tax scheme
or choir fund scheme. Whatever. Art should be public, not privately
owned and tampered or speculated with or profited from. Maybe I'm in a
position to
However, his comments on Enron betray so fundamental a misunderstanding
of the situation that I had to respond.
On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 04:53 PM, Lee Actor wrote:
You can unfairly castigate the free market if you
wish (the failure of Enron is a textbook demonstration
In the new Finale
2003 (Win), when you attempt to use a plug-in that depends on PDK Tools, the
following error message pops up: "This version of PDK Tools hasn't proven to be
compatible with this Finale version. Please download a later version of
PDK Tools." I'm using version 2.09 of PDK
In the new Finale 2003 (Win), when you attempt to use a plug-in
that depends
on PDK Tools, the following error message pops up: This version of PDK
Tools hasn't proven to be compatible with this Finale version. Please
download a later version of PDK Tools. I'm using version 2.09 of PDK
I do
this all the time on a HP LaserJet 5000 and it works beautifully. Here's
exactly what I do: using the Postscript driver version of the printer, set paper
to 11x17 in landscape mode. In Finale set parts format to Letter (NOT
11x17) and select 2-up in Finale print dialog box (NOT in
Printers: I think this might have been discussed before. Any pros and
cons on the HP 5000 would be welcomed. I am using Fin 2002b on a Mac G3.
Where is the best price online.
I have had an HP LaserJet 5000 for a year and give it my unqualified highest
recommendation. I get superb results
What you didn't mention in all of this -- had Coda actually shipped your
package when you first contacted them about a tracking number?
I ordered mine last Saturday (the 1st) and it hasn't arrived yet, so I
would not be surprised that it didn't get shipped immediately or even
early in the
I emailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get a tracking number for the
shipment. They said that they usually send out an email with the tracking
number when the order is actually shipped. Has anyone who ordered
this week
actually received this email?
Aaron.
I also had to ask for a tracking number,
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