Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-18 Thread Colin Broom
- Original Message - From: "Matthew Hindson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * keyboard shortcuts for move scroll view one bar forward, one bar back, one page forward, one page back, and similarly, one page forward and back in page view The moving forward and backward by bar using a shortcut would

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-18 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 18.07.2002 12:41 Uhr, David H. Bailey wrote > The way I understood his post, he keeps the same file onscreen while the > client is there looking at things with him and he simply opens different > document options libraries to change the appearance. This vastly > reduces the amount of storage

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-18 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 18.07.2002 10:21 Uhr, Jari Williamsson wrote >> As far as I can see I cannot do a similar thing with Forza, unless I have >> documents with the relevant settings, and then I have to select the right >> elements for each change. > > Unless I misunderstood something, you just save the documents

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-18 Thread David H. Bailey
The way I understood his post, he keeps the same file onscreen while the client is there looking at things with him and he simply opens different document options libraries to change the appearance. This vastly reduces the amount of storage space, to say nothing of the potential confusion amo

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-18 Thread Jari Williamsson
Johannes Gebauer writes: > The project I am working on we haven't decided on certain things like the > fonts to use for clefs, meter, etc. > I want to show the client several versions, while also going on with the > work. So for each combination I saved a doc settings library. Now I can > switch

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-17 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 2:10 PM 07/17/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >Both. I just tried, changed the font for clefs, saved the doc options lib, >undid the change of font, loaded the lib and there were my changed clefs. > >The document options lib actually includes several things that can be saved >separately in other l

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-17 Thread Matthew Hindson
> > > * more intelligent handling of accidentals within a single bar - e.g. if a > > note is enharmonically changed to F# from Gb within a bar, subsequent Gb/F#s > > within the bar should default to the F#. > > This came up yesterday or the day before in another discussion. > > Isn't it the case t

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-17 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 17.07.2002 14:21 Uhr, Jari Williamsson wrote > Please take a look at: > http://www.jwmusic.nu/forza/settingstransfer.html > > Do you still think that using Libraries is the easiest way? I just had another situation, where I think libraries work better than Forza: The project I am working on

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-17 Thread David H. Bailey
I think the point is that if the pitch is entered as a Gb and then changed to F#, that Finale would be expected to interpret all subsequent instances of that midi key being pressed (in the same measure) as F# instead of Gb. The ctrl-accidental method is after all the pitches are entered, and i

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 16 Jul 2002, at 8:30, Robert Patterson wrote: > I would expand this request to disconnect the programming of metatools from the > shift key and instead allow the (all the) shift keys to define additional > metatools. If this were possible, I might (for ex.) use ctrl-p for "ppp", > shift-p for

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 16 Jul 2002, at 20:03, Matthew Hindson wrote: > * more intelligent handling of accidentals within a single bar - e.g. if a > note is enharmonically changed to F# from Gb within a bar, subsequent Gb/F#s > within the bar should default to the F#. This came up yesterday or the day before in an

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-17 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 17.07.2002 14:21 Uhr, Jari Williamsson wrote > Please take a look at: > http://www.jwmusic.nu/forza/settingstransfer.html > > Do you still think that using Libraries is the easiest way? Looks exciting. And would probably work better in most situations. But I wouldn't want Coda to remove libr

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-17 Thread Jari Williamsson
Johannes Gebauer writes: > I can think of many situations where this will be the easiest way to modify > certain element. Please take a look at: http://www.jwmusic.nu/forza/settingstransfer.html Do you still think that using Libraries is the easiest way? Please note that what I'm trying to dis

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-17 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 17.07.2002 14:19 Uhr, Mark D. Lew wrote >> There are still situations where libraries do a really good job: Imagine you >> change something of your engraving style, eg font for certain symbols, > > I believe you'll find that the Document Settings library includes your > choices of *character*

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-17 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 11:21 AM 07/17/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >There are still situations where libraries do a really good job: Imagine you >change something of your engraving style, eg font for certain symbols, I believe you'll find that the Document Settings library includes your choices of *character* for an

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-17 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 17.07.2002 10:27 Uhr, Jari Williamsson wrote > Matthew Hindson writes: > >> The good thing about libraries is that I can store elements in them for use >> in a couple of years time if needs be. If such information were to be >> stored only within documents, and then transferred to a new docu

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-17 Thread Jari Williamsson
Matthew Hindson writes: > The good thing about libraries is that I can store elements in them for use > in a couple of years time if needs be. If such information were to be > stored only within documents, and then transferred to a new document, then I > have to remember which documents they wer

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-16 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 17.07.2002 4:03 Uhr, Mark D. Lew wrote >> * increased numbers of File Info items that could be used as text inserts > > Well, I'll be darned. I never realized that the File Info items were > available as text inserts at all. Just the other day I was mentioning the > Composer and Title in th

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-16 Thread Matthew Hindson
> > * the ability to view, edit and change libraries without having to load into > > an empty document etc. > > Do you really think libraries are such a brilliant idea? Well, I think that they're a good way to store different ideas between documents. Of course if they could be easily edited, and

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-16 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 8:03 PM 07/16/02, Matthew Hindson wrote: >* increased numbers of File Info items that could be used as text inserts Well, I'll be darned. I never realized that the File Info items were available as text inserts at all. Just the other day I was mentioning the Composer and Title in the contex

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-16 Thread Jari Williamsson
Matthew Hindson writes: > * the ability to access bookmarks by right-clicking somewhere on a blank > page, or failing that, via the Measure and Page things down the bottom of > the main window FWIW, you can do almost that (=get it into the Quick Navigator menu) in Forza! > * the ability to

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-16 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 16.07.2002 12:03 Uhr, Matthew Hindson wrote > FWIW, here is the wishlist that I'm going to send to Coda for future > versions of Finale. Some of them have been discussed recently on this list, > others are more longstanding and/or esoteric. If anyone wants to copy and > send any in to Coda, b

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-16 Thread Robert Patterson
On Tue, 16 July 2002, "Matthew Hindson" wrote > * some sort of list to show you which keys have not yet been assigned to > metatools (i.e. which ones you can assign without wiping out existing ones) I would expand this request to disconnect the programming of metatools from the shift key and ins

[Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-16 Thread Matthew Hindson
FWIW, here is the wishlist that I'm going to send to Coda for future versions of Finale. Some of them have been discussed recently on this list, others are more longstanding and/or esoteric. If anyone wants to copy and send any in to Coda, be my guest! Matthew GENERAL PROGRAMME OPERATIONS