Re: [Finale] eps graphic

On Sunday, Jul 27, 2003, at 17:10 US/Pacific, 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 Couri

Re: [Finale] Font annotation NEW

On Saturday, Jul 26, 2003, at 09:18 US/Pacific, Éric Dussault wrote: Le 26/07/03 10:50, "Jari Williamsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit: Éric Dussault writes: I have a question here : I am using a default music font that I made myself and am using it with some publishers I work with. For compat

Re: [Finale] Turandot

On Thursday, Jul 24, 2003, at 08:18 US/Pacific, Richard Yates wrote: The features list has some nice touches. Overall I get the sense of the interface that it was created from scratch without the tacked-on-years-later kludgy feeling that Finale often has. Of course, there is no way yet to know

Re: [Finale] Turandot

On Wednesday, Jul 23, 2003, at 05:01 US/Pacific, Nádai Péter wrote: Turandot is a newly developed score writing program. See www.turandot.hu. Thanks Péter, Interesting to read this application's feature list. Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Subito p

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, David H. Bailey wrote: > Garamond used in bold italic pretty closely resembles the dynamic > letters of the Maestro font. Palatino too. Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.e

Re: [Finale] feature requests

On Sunday, Jul 13, 2003, at 14:20 America/Vancouver, Darcy James Argue wrote: On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 02:10 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Is it a practical idea to ask for the integration of horizontal scrolling without a cursor click in the scrolling line...maybe using the arrow keys or

Re: [Finale] .aiff files

On Monday, Jul 7, 2003, at 16:26 America/Vancouver, Crystal Premo wrote: What's the matter with Ultra Recorder? I have been using it all along. I don't know if there's anything wrong with it. What you should do is compare the AIFF output from it and one from iTunes to see if there's a quality d

Re: [Finale] .aiff files

On Monday, Jul 7, 2003, at 00:01 America/Vancouver, Darcy James Argue wrote: I've always been able to do this since the first version of iTunes for OS X. Excellent tip, Philip. I had no idea iTunes included this functionality. I remember another discussion from many months ago where we talked

Re: [Finale] .aiff files

On Sunday, Jul 6, 2003, at 20:31 America/Vancouver, Darcy James Argue wrote: Because she needs to convert MIDI files to AIFFs, which iTunes cannot do. However, I'm sure there's a freeware or shareware OS X utility that could do the same thing. In iTunes: Choose "Add to Library..." from its Fi

Re: [Finale] .aiff files

On Sunday, Jul 6, 2003, at 19:07 America/Vancouver, Crystal Premo wrote: Okay, I downloaded a version of Ultra Recorder suitable for the Classic Environment. It seems to be working just fine in terms of converting my midi files to .aiff files that will play on any CD player. However. Althoug

Re: [Finale] Font development

On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 06:03 America/Vancouver, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: I have determined that I probably have enough source material to produce digital versions of two historic music typefaces, Excelsior No. 1, and Diamond No. 3. I plan to try to begin creating these new digital faces i

Re: [Finale] [OT] maybe... printing of Chinese fonts

On Monday, Jun 30, 2003, at 20:57 America/Vancouver, Chin-Chin Chen wrote: Sorry to bother the list with this if it has been discussed here before. I just re-subed to the list after a two-year's gap. Recently I am writing songs with Chinese texts, but I have troubles to get the files to print

Re: [Finale] Text Block Bug?

On Monday, Jun 30, 2003, at 16:14 America/Vancouver, Richard Huggins wrote: From: "Fisher, Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One of the things I remember from my tech support days was that one of the Norton utilities would get in the way and not allow files to be deleted I'm pretty sure you're talki

Re: [Finale] Printing in Classic environment

On Saturday, Jun 28, 2003, at 06:30 America/Vancouver, Crystal Premo wrote: or the interested, the Ghostscript port for Mac (MacGSView) is available here: << I have this now, although I could not get to the localhost:631 configuration site.

Re: [Finale] Printing in Classic environment

On Thursday, Jun 26, 2003, at 18:56 America/Vancouver, Crystal Premo wrote: I think the original problem was printing from Classic...<< Actually, I'm using Finale 2002b in the Classic Environment. There are two separate problems, one from Patricia and one from Crystal. Crystal's main problem i

Re: [Finale] Printing in Classic environment

On Thursday, Jun 26, 2003, at 08:58 America/Vancouver, Brad Beyenhof wrote: Great ideas - however, (correct me if I'm wrong) , one can only open/print Finale files in Acrobat Reader if you have the complete version of the program, which inlcudes Acrobat Distiller 4.05 (for conversion). Ther

[Finale] Re: Text Editor PI by Philip Aker (hyphenation)

On Monday, Jun 16, 2003, at 04:22 America/Vancouver, Cecil Rigby wrote: a good while back (more than 2 years!) I asked this question and, behold!!, Philip Aker ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) developed the Text Editor PI for FinMac. For a while it shipped with a Latin hyphenation dictionary I compiled

Re: [Finale] apology

On Saturday, Jun 14, 2003, at 08:57 America/Vancouver, Bob Florence wrote: I wish to thank you all for letting me know about the trouble I was causing with Spamarrest. The account has been canceled. Now I can read all of the weight loss, penile enlargements, and low interest refinancing adds.

Re: [Finale] $US0.99 - your cut

On Saturday, Jun 14, 2003, at 01:46 America/Vancouver, Darcy James Argue wrote: The email contact for getting indie music listed with Apple is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To avoid lineups, please post before 5am (Pacific Time) Actually, at this time Apple is not interested in hearing from any more in

[Finale] $US0.99 - your cut

The email contact for getting indie music listed with Apple is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To avoid lineups, please post before 5am (Pacific Time) Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/fi

Re: [Finale] Chord Symbol Placement (was: New Finale release)

On Wednesday, Jun 11, 2003, at 19:55 America/Vancouver, Bruce K H Kau wrote: I've been of the opinion that chords should be given their own "staff" (zero lines?) and not be attached as if they were articuations to another staff. They have their own rhythmic pattern, often independent of the ot

Re: [Finale] Rolled chords

On Tuesday, Jun 10, 2003, at 11:41 America/Vancouver, Harold Owen wrote: I am writing a set of songs with harp accompaniment, and I want a reasonably good playback of the normally rolled (arpeggiated) chords that have four notes in each hand. Since harpists will play large chords such as these

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

On Tuesday, Jun 10, 2003, at 07:43 America/Vancouver, David W. Fenton wrote: Me: Nope, I didn't say that. I'm trying to convey that fact that multitasking solved a lot of problems for Windows developers but really wouldn't have done a lot for the MacOS of that era. That's why it was/is only an

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

On Monday, Jun 9, 2003, at 12:33 America/Vancouver, Phil Daley wrote: At 06/09/2003 02:38 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Why would that be? Multitasking is something that all GUIs provide. Your definition of multi-tasking is a little broad. Most people do not consider event-driven cooperative mult

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

David, I've snipped quite a few of your paragraphs because later on you say "I didn't understand what you could possibly mean by that", and also Phil Daley (in his post addressing those remarks) seems to have a handle on the situation because he gets to the point in just a few lines. [...] Ho

Re: [Finale] Some Considerations about fonts....

On Monday, Jun 9, 2003, at 05:55 America/Vancouver, Daniel Dorff wrote: Actually I'm referring to a different feature. Tracking is the tightness between characters, as you've described. I'm referring to reshaping each letter, so for instance letter o would become an oval rather than a circle.

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

On Sunday, Jun 8, 2003, at 22:04 America/Vancouver, Darcy James Argue wrote: Right now, it's a dead heat between Coda and Quark for the ignominious title of "software developer with its head deepest in the sand." Both of these companies have been bleeding users like mad to inferior competitor

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

lizes what was previously dealt with by numerous managers and offers a hugely expanded event handling mechanism, unix is always available, and Cocoa is arguably the most beautifully designed set of classes on the planet. Philip Philip M. Aker wrote: On Saturday, Jun 7, 2003, at 13:17 America/Van

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

On Saturday, Jun 7, 2003, at 13:23 America/Vancouver, David W. Fenton wrote: Multitasking as an issue is only important to Windows developers because DOS (and I think Windows before W95) never had anything like the (old) MacOS event loop concept in the first place. Eh? DOS was single-tasking,

Re: [Finale] Numbers for JazzFont pieces

On Saturday, Jun 7, 2003, at 15:05 America/Vancouver, Darcy James Argue wrote: Forgot to mention that if you are on a Mac, you will need TT Converter: http://www.signaturefactory.com/tt-converter-15.hqx PC TrueType fonts work just fine in OS X, but for OS 9/Classic, you still need to convert t

Re: [Finale] Re: Backwards compatibility

On Saturday, Jun 7, 2003, at 14:37 America/Vancouver, John Howell wrote: Randy Stokes, senior developer, IS a musician. I have no idea about any of the rest. Now where did that page of jokes about trombonists go... Must have been stolen by a violist. Who, just like every other violist, has pro

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

On Saturday, Jun 7, 2003, at 13:17 America/Vancouver, David W. Fenton wrote: Nope. It's Coda not having had their ear to the ground 6 years ago when Apple sent out copious notes about coming changes. [...] I think that Code is following exactly the same path with OS X as they did with Win32, a

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

On Saturday, Jun 7, 2003, at 13:02 America/Vancouver, David W. Fenton wrote: And the best part: if they code for OS X in the right way, it's about halfway to a Linux port (obviously, Aqua-specific code would not > port). I don't think that's practical for them until they can drop OS 9 support.

Re: [Finale] TAN: SoundFonts, QuickTime, and OS X

On Saturday, Jun 7, 2003, at 12:55 America/Vancouver, John Croft wrote: I've just been through a similar issue with Andrew Levin offlist. Our conclusion, based on the setups of our 4 different Macs, was that it's not possible with QuickTime (including Pro) right now. I think it's something that

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

On Saturday, Jun 7, 2003, at 12:48 America/Vancouver, Jari Williamsson wrote: But even more telling is the complete lack of an analogy on Windows for high level events. All of which have now been subsumed into AppleEvents BTW. My best nutshell explanation is that they are an object oriented ap

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

On Saturday, Jun 7, 2003, at 10:24 America/Vancouver, Jari Williamsson wrote: But Jari, I've been _using_ Carbon controls in plugins since 1998 and requesting support for them in the PDK since the autumn of that year. So what happens if Carbon isn't installed on the client's computer? Those con

Re: [Finale] TAN: SoundFonts, QuickTime, and OS X

On Monday, Apr 7, 2003, at 07:05 America/Vancouver, John Croft wrote: So, does anybody know if it's possible to patch an external MIDI keyboard directly into QuickTime, and have it use the selected SoundFont? (It would be nice if Apple's "Audio MIDI Setup" utility recognised QT as an output, so

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

On Saturday, Jun 7, 2003, at 06:23 America/Vancouver, Jari Williamsson wrote: (since Mac now have many things that Win32 has had for years, like easy multi-threaded multitasking, a good set of user controls, etc). But Jari, I've been _using_ Carbon controls in plugins since 1998 and requesting

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

On Saturday, Jun 7, 2003, at 01:07 America/Vancouver, Darcy James Argue wrote: By the way, has Makemusic/Codamusic _ever_ made a profit? I don't know about "ever" but apparently not recently. Maybe it was when they were only releasing products for Macintosh? Be interesting to find out if the W

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

On Saturday, Jun 7, 2003, at 03:13 America/Vancouver, David H. Bailey wrote: It would be very interesting, as you say, to see what the numbers are, in a development-vs-income comparison. That is the point isn't it. $US284,000 of revenue loss is a mighty cold supper. And also a review of the val

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

On Friday, Jun 6, 2003, at 22:49 America/Vancouver, Craig Parmerlee wrote: At 09:06 AM 6/7/2003 +1000, "Matthew Hindson wrote: By the way, has Makemusic/Codamusic _ever_ made a profit? I don't know about "ever" but apparently not recently. Maybe it was when they were only releasing products for

Re: [Finale] Re: Backwards compatibility

On Friday, Jun 6, 2003, at 18:10 America/Vancouver, David H. Bailey wrote: Randy Stokes, senior developer, IS a musician. I have no idea about any of the rest. Now where did that page of jokes about trombonists go... Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca __

Re: [Finale] Re: Backwards compatibility

On Friday, Jun 6, 2003, at 10:39 America/Vancouver, Michael Good wrote: In answer to Johannes's question of when will we finally get the MusicXML plug-in for the Mac: We're working on it now. The goal is to release it shortly after Finale 2004 is available on OS X. We will try to make it availa

Re: [Finale] Backwards compatibility

On Friday, Jun 6, 2003, at 09:24 America/Vancouver, Craig Parmerlee wrote: OK, here is some free consulting. This is the sort of thing that corporations pay $1000/day or better for. Well Craig, here's my 2 cents worth: In the modern software era, development environments and the programmers t

Re: [Finale] TAN: rubato midi files

On Wednesday, Jun 4, 2003, at 18:34 America/Vancouver, John Bell wrote: A composer gives me Logic files where the music has been entered with the metronome muted -- the (rubato) pulse is clear to the ear, but the Logic/midi files are virtually unreadable. Is there any way to move the barlines s

Re: [Finale] Musicality (was Musical meaning (or not) of clefs) OT

On Tuesday, Jun 3, 2003, at 16:35 America/Vancouver, David W. Fenton wrote: Indeed, I don't know of much in the way of computerized analytical tools at all. I raised this subject a few years ago on the this list and was pointed in the direction of a handful of programs that seemed to be design

Re: [Finale] OMS

On Monday, Jun 2, 2003, at 21:10 America/Vancouver, Crystal Premo wrote: Step 3: Go to Applications/Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup and configure your USB interface. << This is what I do not understand. Step 3's done in OS X... Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca

Re: [Finale] Double-dotted notes

On Sun, 25 May 2003, Mark D. Lew wrote: > I'm curious to know which terminology is used in Canada. Does it match the United > States or Britain? We use half, quarter, etc., but will stoop to crotchets if obliged to work with visitors who subscribe to arcane nomenclatures. Philip Aker http://w