Re: [Finale] Paper Redux

2004-03-09 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Cecil Rigby wrote about his favorite paper stock: here it's only available in 23x35 and I have it cut to 11x17. shouldn't lose too much, though; you should be able to get 2000 sheets of 11 x 17 from one ream of 23 x 35 I've *never* paid for cutting, and only ten bucks for wrapping! some s

Re: [Finale] OT: Paper Trimmers

2004-02-17 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Darcy James Argue wrote: So… what does everyone use? Rotary of guillotine? What features do you consider essential? Size/make/model? Any and all suggestions welcome. I'm partial to the rotary trimmers stocked in Kinko's copy centers; I routinely turn one over, copy down the name and phone nu

Re: [Finale] Vibraphone in one or two staves?

2004-02-11 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
In response to Javier's question: In general what instruments need necessarily two staves? Andrew Stiller wrote, in part. In a score, it is acceptable to show any polyphonic instrument on a single staff to save space, if the distribution of notes makes sense that way (it's a form of optimizati

Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2004-02-09 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
David wrote: I do notice nobody has jumped in to defend Micnotator at all. :) I would have, except that I make it a matter of personal policy never to defend something I don't know how to pronounce. ns ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

Re: [Finale] Another tuplet question

2004-02-09 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Darcy James Argue wrote: What is the standard way to notate a sixteenth quintuplet when only the final note is played? What do you put under the bracket: A quarter rest followed by the sixteenth note? Two eighth rests followed by the sixteenth note? Four sixteenth rests followed by the sixtee

Re: [Finale] 2k5 features (was Expression Metatools)

2004-02-08 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
David W. Fenton wrote, in part Meanwhile, since I'm stuck with WinFin2K3, what's the usual technique for getting hyphens into a score after line breaks? I have never figured out how to do it. prompting Mark to write, in part: Many recommend putting a hard space under the first syllable after the

Re: [Finale] FONTOGRAPHER

2004-02-06 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Henry Howey wrote: seems unable to solve any of my concerns as it runs well in neither OSX or XP. Are there any other solutions? Since I'm on Windows, I began using the "Font Creator Program" from High-Logic

Re: [Finale] Ricoh AP2610 Discontinued?

2004-01-29 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Since (IIRC) Ricoh is manufactured in Europe, given the current unfavorable exchange rate, one wonders if it is manufacture, or import to the US that has caused the discontinuance. If manufacture has been discontinued, it may be that there is a replacement in the works, though this would not b

Re: [Finale] Custom barline

2004-01-25 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Barbara Touburg wrote: Dear list, I need a custom barline, a double tick barline. So I created a shape consisting of two lines. Everything looks OK in the shape designer, but in the score it is maybe four times larger. How do I persuade it to display normally? Easiest way I know is probably t

Re: FW: [Finale] 9x12 paper??

2004-01-22 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Glenn Adams wrote: Does anyone on this list know where to get 9x12 paper? Yes. God to any full-line paper supplier, but they don't stock it' you'll have to buy a larger size (11 x 17, 17 x 22, or 22 x 34) paper, and have your 9 x 12 cut from the larger sizes. How to find a full line paper su

Re: [Finale] Creating mid-measure double bar line

2004-01-20 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Martin wrote: I'm editing an early 19th Century concerted choral work, and about midway thru the piece there is a change of tempo on the 4th beat of a measure (quarter note on beat one, quarter rest on beat two, quarter rest of beat three with a fermata, followed by a thin double bar, then a q

Re: [Finale] Different Lyrics for different layers...

2004-01-16 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Christopher wrote of the triangles in the lyric box: The right-most one is stupid (meaning stupid because I can't figure out a use for it.) To which John Bell rejoined, It's for lyrics you haven't yet entered. prompting Christopher to write further I guess I'm still stupid, because I can't fig

Re: [Finale] Ricoh 2610

2004-01-10 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Craig Parmerlee wrote: Yeah, I love [the Ricoh AP 2610] too. I haven't been so successful doing 2-up printing (two 8-1/2x11 portrait pages of music side by side on an 11x17 sheet) with Finale. This works OK with Microsoft Word, but I haven't found a combination that works with Finale 2004.

Re: [Finale] Executable shape Bug? (FinWin2004)

2003-12-26 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Colin Broom wrote: Okay, I've finally decided to try to get my head round executable shapes for doing rallentando/accel type things, but it doesn't seem to be working right in Finale 2004. Anytime I change the the values of the time or level scales then go back to the score, when I go back into t

Re: [Finale] Merged syllable question

2003-12-18 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
IN response to my comment: A review of my dictionary shows that all of the multi words which begin with a long "O", including among others, obey, open, over, onerous, and Otolaryngologyst, seem to have the long 'o' as a separate syllable, and those where the o is short, (obliterate, ocular, ol

Re: [Finale] Merged syllable question

2003-12-18 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
After quoting someone else, (Richard, I think, but if not, apologies in advance): For this example, I would choose "o-p'ning". I don't know that I'd generalize that as a rule to always use apostrophe, though. In other contexts it might be clearer to spell out what looks like two syllables but

Re: [Finale] Vision challenged choral singers

2003-12-11 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Doug Parker wrote: Can Finale produce large format output for vision impaired singers? Aaron Sherber responded: Sure -- you can make the output as large as you want, and the paper can be whatever size your printer supports. and I would point out that in addition (though I've never used the fe

Re: [Finale] Printer Recommendation Please

2003-12-09 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Carlberg Jones wrote: Greetings - I'm want to get a black and white printer which can handle up to 11 x 17" paper. I live in Mexico and consumables are difficult and expensive to obtain, so I'd want to get a reasonable supply at the same time as I get the printer. I'd pick up the printer and cons

Re: [Finale] Giving away Finale files

2003-12-09 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Johannes Gebauer wrote: Can someone tell me about your standard practice in giving away Finale files? I anticipated this problem before I first sold my work in producing a Finale file, and I explicitly provided in the contract that I acknowledge that the music produced from my Finale file is s

[Finale] Re: Click expression and edit lyrics

2003-12-07 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
When I wrote, regarding the expression menu, while editing an old score in WINFIN2k4, : resulted in the appearance of the "edit lyrics" box with the four base-line triangles in it. I obviously had failed to read the documentation. Never mind. ns

[Finale] Click expression and edit lyrics

2003-12-06 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Friends, Ran into something for the very first time while working on a Finale score, consisting of five staves. With four of the staves, when the expression tool was selected, everything worked as one would expect; with the fifth stave, selecting the expression tool, and the fifth staff, in e

Re: [Finale] Tuplet brackets in slurred passages

2003-11-30 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi gang, Just wondering if there was any consensus about how to resolve collisions between tuplet brackets and slurs, especially where you have a long overslur that begins with a triplet w/bracket, *especially* when the notes of the triplet are low in the staff (or be

[Finale] Testimonial on new [2k4] "finale sounds"

2003-11-30 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Friends: I had been working on a preparing a sample sound file of a score of music for flute choir, and took it with me to a gathering of musicians on Thanksgiving. While no one thought it was acutally a choir of flutes, all thought (one argued that it absolutely had to be) a consort of actua

Re: [Finale] Finale to mp3 or wav

2003-11-23 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
I wrote in part: and for a few tens of dollars, one can purchase a file converter which will convert the WAV to MP3 format, among others; to which Darcy wrote: iTunes does this for free. You can burn the CDs from there as well. but I suspect if one doesn't already have it, one must buy iTunes;

Re: [Finale] Finale to mp3 or wav

2003-11-22 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
John Ronai wrote: I just got my first CD burner. It is made by a company called Mad Dog and comes with a software package called "Ahead Nero" Version 5. I am using Allegro 2002. I often use Allegro to arrange music for my Suzuki students to perform. I am interested in recording my arrangme

Re: [Finale] Ten/Bar/Bass?

2003-11-21 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Darcy wrote, The only oddity now is that the altos and tenors both have to share an 8vb treble clef placing tenors on an 8vb G clef did not used to be the norm; in the past, tenors were noted on a treble clef, in alto range, and transposed down the octave at sight. The use of the transposed

Re: [Finale] Splitting measures

2003-11-19 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
d. collins wrote: How advisable is it to split measures in two over a system break to improve the layout? Let's say you have four cramped 4/4 (with 16th notes) measures on one system and three fairly loose measures on the next, and without any other possibility two improve the layout, would yo

Re: [Finale] Saving paper

2003-11-17 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
d. collins wrote: I have a couple hundred music examples I need to print out and proofread. Most of them are one line only, and each is in a separate file. Is there any easy way I could get several on the same sheet of paper? depends upon how you define "easy". One way is to devide the system

Re: [Finale] chant entry

2003-11-15 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
With respect to the St. Meinrad chant fonts, Dr..Howell wrote: Whether they would work in Finale, I don't know. They are designed to be used as a font within a word processor, taking over and reprograming your ASCII keyboard. Yes, they work well with Finale, I have generated mixed scores using

Re: [Finale] F-SCR Finale Script questions to WINSUPPORT....

2003-11-13 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
day at http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/f2k4/ <http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/f2k4/> -Original Message- From: Noel Stoutenburg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:05 AM To: WinSupport Subject: Re: Finale Script question Brian, But my more important

Re: [Finale] F-SCR Disappointment

2003-11-13 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
cs with FinaleScript. So apparantly there is at least a little more functionality than you have discovered. I don't presently have 2004 to check but isn't there info on this functionality in the OLD? Liudas ----- Original Message - From: "Noel Stoutenburg" <[EMAIL PROT

[Finale] F-SCR Disappointment

2003-11-12 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
OK, I decided to do my first Finale Script. Decided a simple thing to do would be to prepare a folder with three Finale data files, and then create a script that open each one in succession, and insert a measure at the beginning of each file. Found out it can't be done, at least not the way I

[Finale] F-SCR Finale Script questions to WINSUPPORT....

2003-11-08 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
I've reviewed the sections of the on-line documentation on the Finale Scripting capability, and have found that not all of my initial questions are answered. I'll start with these questions: 1) Is the Finale Script capability considered complete, or is this a first imlementation of a system s

[Finale] [F-SCR] Some questions...

2003-11-08 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Friends: First, to avoid confusion with those who sometimes use the dyad "FS" to signify "for sale", I intend to use the string "F-SCR" in the subject line to denote a post dealing with the topic of Finale Script. A review of the example scripts seems to suggest that once one masters the keywo

[Finale] Finalescript

2003-11-06 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Listsibs: Though I have had WINFIN 2k4 since it was first released, pre-occupation with other projects prevented me form doing more than installing it and giving it a cursory review. Well, I've reached a point with those other projects where I had the time to look at the 2k4, with the idea of

[Finale] Very interesting

2003-11-04 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Listsibs: I don't really want to discuss this, but as an item in which you may be interested: Relative to the recent extended threads on copy protection caused by MakeMusic! 's registration scheme, while visiting the website of the U.S. Library of Congress, I chanced upon this page

Re: [Finale] Finale 2003 (windows) playsback and then doesn't

2003-11-04 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Rebecca wrote: Finale 2003 (for Windows) elects to play for me what I've written, and then other times, the green scroll bar just goes across the screen with no sound, and yes my speakers are on, and yes dad set up the MIDI stuff correctly. Based upon the information, my best first guess is tha

Re: [Finale] Lyric alignment and justification

2003-11-03 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
d. collins wrote: I'm not sure I understand the difference between these two notions in the case where you only have one verse (i.e. one line of text under the music). Is there one of the two I can simply ignore in that case? The example in the OLD is with three verses, so it's hard to see what

[Finale] Best way to do this?

2003-10-25 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Listsibs: Working with a score modeled on the baroque "Concerto grosso" model. In the ms., all instruments are in ordinary score order, falling where they would in an ordinary "Orchestral score". Nowever, should the "concertino" and "ripineo" groups be considered separate ensembles, and orde

[Finale] TAN - WTB

2003-10-21 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Friends: An aquaintance has a quantity of files in the old MAC version of Micro$oft Works, but needs to replace his copy. Anyone have a copy of the program (with authorization code) that they would like to sell, or alternatively, know where there might be one? ns

Re: [Finale] Word cuts in Italian

2003-10-17 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Dennis wrote, asking about the syllabificaton of the Latin word "nostra" as "no-stra" rather than "nos-tra", wrote, in part:. In Latin, for instance, one sees in sacred music divisions that don't correspond to normal "syllables". (e.g. no-stra rather than nos-tra). Well, there is Ecclesiastical

Re: [Finale] Basic Finale Questions 2

2003-10-13 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Stanford Chong wrote: Oh c'mon, I am a computer newbie and according to my friends, online means something in the internet and not inside the CD. If you are referring to that manual in PDF, yes, I have it. Your friends are relative "newbies", too. In the early '90s, after Windows, but before th

[Finale] WINFIN 2k4 "A"

2003-10-11 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
To those as yet unaware, yesterday, MakeMusic! posted the FIN2k4a updater to the website yesterday. Though there have been statements by people connected with MakeMusic that the registrations codes will be made "portable" [NB: "portable" is my word, and may include nuances MakeMusic! does not

Re: [Finale] Hope there is a Finale Free 2004 for OSX

2003-10-10 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
RockyRoad wrote: > That free version is a great way to get my students introduced to > Finale. Three bought the full version this year after starting on > Free. I hope there will be one that runs in OSX. Past experience would suggest that there will be an 2004 version of Notepad; I don't look f

Re: [Finale] Question about Systems Margins

2003-10-10 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Mark D Lew wrote: > I can easily imagine an algorithm (either automated plug-in or user's > standard procedure), which first examines a system for anything > extending sufficiently above or below the staff to warrant adjusting > the system margins, and then distributes the remaining vertical spa

Re: [Finale] OT: Percussion boxes

2003-10-08 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Aaron Sherber wrote: Thanks to all who responded. Some very interesting things, but not quite what I'm looking for -- which isn't actually a box for percussion, but rather one for transporting scores. How much are you willing to pay? I was in a specialty luggage store about a year ago, and sa

Re: [Finale] Playback glitches

2003-10-08 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
D. Keneth Fowler wrote: I am using Finale 2004 with Windows 98. Had no problems until I started playing back files that originated in 2001 or 2003 and were transferred 2004. You don't say how much memory do you have in your machine, or how fast a processor you are using. I have played back 2k

[Finale] A practical question about prolation

2003-10-07 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Listsibs: I want to transcribe a late Renaissance choral piece for small brass ensemble of advanced beginner to early intermediate level. This piece starts with duple prolation and continues that way for about half the piece, at which oint it changes to triple prolation for about a quarter of

[Finale] Updated finale forums...

2003-10-04 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
The software used for the forums (cf.: ) on the Finale website have been changed; like the new ones a lot better. ns ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Import Sibelius; Midi messages

2003-09-30 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Stan Hoffman wrote: Can Finale import Sibelius files? Sibelius isn't listed in the 2003 import menu and I couldn't locate information on this on the website. Not directly, but Recordare (the proprietor of which subscribes to this list) has released a version of it's "Dolet" plug-in for Sibelius,

[Finale] WINFIN 2k, Ties and slurs

2003-09-29 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Listsibs: Just before starting my current project, I attempted to set the tie preferences so that when two notes are tied, rather than going from the center of the first notehead to the center of the second, the tie goes from just past the end of the first one, and ends just before the beginni

Re: [Finale] Microtonal accidentals (newbie question)

2003-09-29 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Stan Hoffman wrote: Hi-- I'm trying to decide whether to upgrade to Sibelius 3, switch to Finale 2004 (Macintosh), or both. Can someone clue me in to how and how well Finale handles microtonal accidentals? Can you choose/define your own symbols? I just finished the typesetting on a sonata fo

Re: [Finale] Dedicated workstation

2003-09-27 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Richard Huggins wrote: I'm just wondering how many of you have a Finale (or Finale/MIDI)-dedicated workstation Well, I'm moving in that direction, but have another year or two to get to the final point., I started out moving my internet capabilities off of my Finale computer, onto another, simi

Re: [Finale] The Joys of Custom Lines

2003-09-26 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Robert Patterson Finale wrote: I sometimes have the impression that the Custom Line tool may be one of the most underused really powerful things in Finale. In an offline conversation with a Coda person, I complained that a major drawback of the CLT is that text (i.e., Left, Center Full, or Right)

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

Re: [Finale] PDF books and Finale

2003-09-23 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
doug wrote: I'd like to create a couple of PDF e-books. One book would be an instructional type book having both text and images together (the images being music created in Finale), where as another would be more of a song book, having an introductory text followed by several songs (one Finale fil

[Finale] Ricoh AP 2610 information

2003-09-23 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Listsibs: I had one concern after the information on the Ricoh AP 2610. Somone had told me that sometimes these inexpensive laser printers use a counter in the toner cartridge, so that when it is advertised that the cartridge is good for some number of copies, when that number of copies has b

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-20 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
John Hines wrote: From: "Noel Stoutenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One way which appears to be quite useful in avoiding worms and virii is to switch to an email client not made by Microsoft Can you suggest some? Thanks. I have been using Netscape, but changed over rec

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-20 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
David McKay wrote: I am in the process of changing my email address to avoid SPAM and viruses. If I unsub using my old email address and resubscribe using my new address, will this make me a target for SPAM and viruses? Can people get my email address who are not members? Yes. Most viruses and

Re: [Finale] Re: lyrics discussion

2003-09-20 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Mark responded to my use of the custom of assigning one syllable of lyric to more than one note, by writing, in part: I understand that there are cases where it's more convenient to assign the same lyric to more than one place, but in my experience it's a better general practice not to. and alth

Re: [Finale] Page reduction vs. Staff reduction (again!)

2003-09-19 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Richard Huggins wrote: You've DONE such multiple reductions?? Well, no. I did a score and set of parts (instruments, vocal soloists, choral and conductors scores) for Handel's Chandos Anthem X, and explored the situation at that time, learning how the sytem worked. Once I learned how the situ

Re: [Finale] OT: 2-up printing solution

2003-09-19 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Craig Parmerlee wrote: But how does one go about printing 2-up with scanned images? It seems to me I need some kind of program that can send all the images as a single print job. My scanning software treats each scanned page (i.e. each 8-1/2x11 page) as a separate file. I don't see any way t

Re: [Finale] Page reduction vs. Staff reduction (again!)

2003-09-19 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Richard Huggins wrote, asking: Those of you that use system reduction, did you compensate for [reduction in size of font] this and what size if so. When planning for the final layout of a work, I always determine separately from the staff / system / page sizes, what size I want the lyrics and ot

Re: [Finale] Re: lyrics discussion

2003-09-17 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
"Mark D. Lew" wrote: > I still think the answer for making EL and TIS compatible is to add a > function that organizes the data in the lyric pool. > > Obviously the software can figure out what syllable is currently assigned > to what note, so it can go through the lyric pool to sort out and clea

Re: [Finale] lyrics discussion

2003-09-17 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Mark: > I haven't used Type in Score enough to have a thorough sense of it. I > always assumed that TIS works fine by itself, and it's only the attempt to > mix the two that leads to trouble. If you never go into the Edit Lyrics > window ever, then TIS is perfectly safe, right? You can add and

[Finale] Feature request, Fin 2k5

2003-09-15 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
I'd like to ask that Finale be modified so that when one has created an expression, articulation, smart shape, chord symbol, &c, and selected it, that one would be presented with a dialog box through which one would be afforded the opportunity of also saving the same expression, articualtion, smart

Re: [Finale] Re: lyrics discussion

2003-09-15 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
David: > 1. I went through *exactly* the same state of confusion and annoyance > over lyrics almost exactly 1 year ago, I worked my way through the confusion and annoyance longer ago than that, and came to the opposite conclusion: Type into score gives me more control over definition of the rel

Re: [Finale] Re: lyrics discussion [LONG] (was Re: BUG fix / FIN 2k5 Feature Request)

2003-09-15 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
In response to my comments about type into score, on the one hand, and edit lyrics, on the other, in which I wrote, in part: > >Yes, exactly. Attempting to do the same thing, that is, hyphenate "seven" into > >two syllables, yields different results if one attempts it in type into score, > >than

Re: [Finale] Need advice: strategy for managing libraries

2003-09-13 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Craig Parmerlee wrote: > I've used Finale for a very long time, mostly as a casual user. I find > myself doing more projects these days, and I feel like I am not using > some of the capabilities intelligently. In particularl, I don't think > I am taking advantage of libraries as I should. I'd

Re: [Finale] "I could care less" (was Re: Finale Digest, Vol 2,Issue 10)

2003-09-12 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Mark quoted: > > Same goes for those who kvetch about pronouncing "nuclear" > > like "nucular". and then wrote, prompting Andrew to rejoin: > While I myself look down on folks who say "nucular," there is indeed > a good reason for the pronunciation: and to go on to provide a very good reason

[Finale] lyrics discussion (was Re: BUG fix / FIN 2k5 Feature Request)

2003-09-12 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
I wrote, in part:: > >First, I find, to my disappointment, that 2k4 does not fix a lyrics > >issue I previously reported, in which editing previously entered lyrics > >via "type into score" and "edit lyrics" do not give the same result. [...] to which Mark responded > I don't have 2k4 yet, so

Re: [Finale] TAN: Ties and Accidentals

2003-09-10 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Pierre Bailleul wrote: > Do you think that a tie beetween two notes with accidentals must end > before or after the accidental of the second note? leading me to wonder if this is a trick question, as ordinarily, there would not be an accidental on the second of two tied notes. In the case of the

Re: [Finale] Playback Interruptions

2003-09-09 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Brian Lynch wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a problem with playback on a score I wrote a little while back of a > string quartet piece. Playback starts out normally until bar 33 of the > piece, which coincides with a new section. At that point, at the end of > every bar, playback is interrupted for

[Finale] BUG fix / FIN 2k5 Feature Request

2003-09-08 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
To Whom It May Concern: First, I find, to my disappointment, that 2k4 does not fix a lyrics issue I previously reported, in which editing previously entered lyrics via "type into score" and "edit lyrics" do not give the same result. To see this, create a new document, containing two staves, with

Re: [Finale] A request of Alan Fischer...

2003-09-08 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
"Fisher, Allen" wrote: > I hope you mean me since that's not how I spell my name! Allen, I apologize for mis-spelling your name... ns ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] A request of Alan Fischer...

2003-09-08 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
...I feel would be of general interest to the list. Alan, [for the benefit of those who don't recall, Alan has a Ricoh AP 2610 printer, which has an impressive throughput (>20 ppm), resolution (1200 x 1200 dpi), paper size (up to 12 in. x 18 in.), duty cycle (> 100,000 pages per month), toner ca

Re: [Finale] Fonts

2003-09-04 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Johannes wrote: > > However, I don't really see Bärenreiter as a publisher that only has > > one font or look. I don't think they are particularly fixed in their > > look. There isn't really any particular font they stick with. to which David responded > Indeed. Bärenreiter has had multiple loo

[Finale] ARRRRRRRGHHHHH

2003-08-25 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Just got my Win 2k4 upgrade; NO SHIRT!! ns ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 - EPS problems WinXP

2003-08-25 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Kurt Gnos wrote: > Anyway - I HOPED - and tried to get EPS working (once (98, 2000, or > earlier?) it had...) But the fonts don't get imbedded right, and so nothing > but a thin vertical line will print. Quark Xpress will show the preview > fine, Word (Office XP) not at all. I really hoped this

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 Review

2003-08-21 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Carlberg Jones wrote wrote, in part: > : > > MTNA = Music Teachers National Association > > http://www.mtna.org/home.htm > to which Phil daily responded, i part > An how does joining that group certify that my wife is a music teacher > more than giving 30+ years of piano lessons to 50+ students

[Finale] T - minus 15 and counting...

2003-08-20 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
... Listsibs, assuming that the pickup people (FED-ex, UPS, et al.) come at 1700 Central (US) Daylight Time, to MakeMusic!, until WINFIN 2k4 ships. I for one, can hardly wait, for the sixty three hours until I get my copy, copy protection or no. ns _

Re: [Finale] Hope there is a Finale Free 2004 for OSX

2003-08-18 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
RockyRoad wrote: > That free version is a great way to get my students introduced to > Finale. Three bought the full version this year after starting on > Free. I hope there will be one that runs in OSX. Past experience would suggest that there will be an 2004 version of Notepad; I don't look f

Re: [Finale] Question about Systems Margins

2003-08-16 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Mark D Lew wrote: > I can easily imagine an algorithm (either automated plug-in or user's > standard procedure), which first examines a system for anything > extending sufficiently above or below the staff to warrant adjusting > the system margins, and then distributes the remaining vertical spa

Re: [Finale] PrintMusic to CD

2003-08-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Tom Daish wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone have any advice on how to convert music from PrintMusic to a format > that can be made into a CD-R to be played on a regular CD player. Later this week, when MakeMusic! announces the availability of Finale 2004, upgrade. According to announcements, FI

Re: The Panic Room, was: RE: [Finale] Re: Registration codes andcopyright

2003-08-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Note to David: > I can't find finale's end-user license, On-line documentation, chapter 1 ns ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Ted Ross reprint

2003-08-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
"David H. Bailey" wrote: > As it is Ted Ross's book and he's dead, as far as I'm concerned, nothing > new can be added, unless he wrote some additional material before he died. Well, there is something of a publishing tradition of continuing to use the name of a well known author or editor, who

Re: [Finale] New Printer for Finale

2003-08-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this has come up before, but I never needed to pay attention until now! My printer's (NEC 1450N) been acting up big time as far as paper feed, and it's making me crazy. I'm thinking of getting a new laser, probably HP. However, do I need it to "speak" PostScript?

[Finale] First FIN 2k5 question

2003-08-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
In discussing a side issue with a friend about MAC OS-X, the point was made that MAC OS-X is a variant of UNIX. This leads me to wonder, given that 2k4 is being reconfigured to run native on Unix, er, OS-X, whether we might, in the near (i.e., not too many upgrades in the future) see a LINUX versi

Re: [Finale] Re: Registration codes and copyright

2003-08-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Relative to the issue of re-registration, David wrote, in part > I read with interest Tyler's Q/A post, where Finale2004 will have a > maintenance release that will include the ability for us to "transport" > the registration code to a different machine -- that is EXACTLY the > garbage that Sibe

Re: [Finale] TAN: OSX Booklet printing (e.g., w/ Acrobat Reader)

2003-08-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Robert Patterson Finale wrote: > However, Finale itself has built-in booklet printing that is (presumably) still > available in Finale 2004 even when running under OSX, and it is far superior to that > of the OS9 Postscript driver. The only time one needs the printer driver is when one > need

[Fwd: Re: [Finale] Ted Ross reprint]

2003-08-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
copy of the book. Michael Matthews On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 03:53 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > > > "David H. Bailey" wrote: > >> As it is Ted Ross's book and he's dead, as far as I'm concerned, >> nothing >> new can be added, unle

Re: The Panic Room, was: RE: [Finale] Re: Registration codes andcopyright

2003-08-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
"David H. Bailey" wrote: > Thanks -- it seems that the only thing which has changed in the license > is that Coda has been changed to MakeMusic. > > Actually, the end-user isn't in the table of contents Obviously because it is an undocumented feature . ns _

disclaimer [was Re: [Finale] Ted Ross reprint]

2003-08-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Although I quoted the line: > > And, quite related to our field, the Berlioz/Strauss Treatise on > > Instrumentation. despite the automatic line generated by Mark's e-mail client, I did not author it. ns ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

Re: [Finale] PrintMusic to CD

2003-08-10 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
> Noel wrote: > > Tom Daish wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Does anyone have any advice on how to convert music from PrintMusic to a > format > > > that can be made into a CD-R to be played on a regular CD player. > > > > Later this week, when MakeMusic! announces the availability of Finale

Re: [Finale] Grace notes spacing wildly

2003-08-01 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Greg wrote, in part: > I've got a piece where there are several grace notes tied to eighth > notes, and for some reason, they are spacing themselves WAY ahead > of the attached eighth notes. In some cases, they come BEFORE a > preceeding note !!! causing me to wonder what the amount of spaci

[Finale] HMMMM????

2003-07-30 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Finale Website (though not the forums) has been down since about three AM local (US Central) time, in all it areas: Makemusic, Finalemusic, &c. New website look perhaps? ns ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinf

Re: [Finale] Crossing voices

2003-07-29 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Pierre: About your question, > In a piano staff, I have on left hand one voice and on right hand 2 > crossing voices in > intervals of of a third or wider. I don't know if I must align on the > beats the left (crossing) note or the right (normal) note ? it's not clear to me exactly what you a

[Finale] Finale Engraver Font set, postscript version...

2003-07-29 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
: I have decided to do several "historic" music fonts for use with Finale, both in True Type and Type 1 versions, the use of which will allow Finale to be used to very closely approximate the appearance not only of historic handset music typefaces, but certain punch engraved scores as well. To th

Re: [Finale] eps graphic

2003-07-27 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Andrew Stiller wrote: > I created an eps file of my colophon, which includes one measure of > music, and inserted it into a FinMac 2Ka file as a graphic. It > appears just lovely on screen, but when I printed it, the notes in > the graphic came out in Courier rather than Petrucci. How do I fix >

[Finale] Quasi public information...

2003-07-24 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
In light of a couple of posts (one of which I posted several weeks ago) asking about Fin 2k4, it may be of some interest here that according to a flyer available at the last National Association of Music Merchandisers show in Nashville, that the announcement of release of FIN 2k4 is in about a wee

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