Re: [Finale] Tweaking bar-lines with staff styles.

2002-06-25 Thread Philip Aker
On Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at 09:04 AM, Javier Ruiz wrote: > You´ve got to have some kind of compiler, ah? > I wonder if I could try that myself with the free programming > tools that > come with Mac OS X. For the purposes of learning C/C++ on Macintosh, use Apple's free MPW/ResEdit combo for

Re: [Finale] Tweaking bar-lines with staff styles.

2002-06-25 Thread Javier Ruiz
Dear Philip, You´ve got to have some kind of compiler, ah? I wonder if I could try that myself with the free programming tools that come with Mac OS X. [But, hey, wake up, Javier. I am still fighting with Real Basic...] Saludos, Javier Ruiz. > Actually, it's easier than you might think. There

Re: [Finale] Tweaking bar-lines with staff styles.

2002-06-23 Thread David H. Bailey
Mark D. Lew wrote: > At 7:48 AM 06/23/02, David H. Bailey wrote: > >>There is not the ability to hide every element you might want to hide, >>using a staff style. For instance if you wanted to hide every 8th rest, >>you would have to do that manually using the speedy entry tool. That is >>no

Re: [Finale] Tweaking bar-lines with staff styles.

2002-06-23 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 7:48 AM 06/23/02, David H. Bailey wrote: >There is not the ability to hide every element you might want to hide, >using a staff style. For instance if you wanted to hide every 8th rest, >you would have to do that manually using the speedy entry tool. That is >not something you can do with a s

Re: [Finale] Tweaking bar-lines with staff styles.

2002-06-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
> >I have to admit, it never even occured to me to try doing multiple time >signatures with asynchronous barlines this way, but I just tried it and it >works a treat! I set up three staves in 1/4, clicked "independent time >signatures" on, and changed the the time signature "display as" to 5/4, 6

Re: [Finale] Tweaking bar-lines with staff styles.

2002-06-23 Thread Philip Aker
On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 04:48 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: > But Finale comes with the ability to use plug-ins, and you can > learn how to program plug-ins. It is not for the faint of > heart, though, Actually, it's easier than you might think. There is a sample plugin that shows how impl

Re: [Finale] Tweaking bar-lines with staff styles.

2002-06-23 Thread David H. Bailey
Michael Edwards wrote: [snip] > Do these staff styles allow you to hide particular symbols individually, or > only allow you to set a general rule which decides automatically what is hidden > and what is not, and then you can't make exceptions? > Staff styles don't have any particular

Re: [Finale] Tweaking bar-lines with staff styles.

2002-06-22 Thread Robert Patterson
Concerning using staff styles to hide barlines to achieve non-aligned barlines, this workaround becomes increasingly unworkable the smaller the common denominator is. Not only do you have Colin's issue of dotted notes, you have the issue of beams. If the LCD were eighth or smaller notes (and even

Re: [Finale] Tweaking bar-lines with staff styles.

2002-06-22 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 6:10 AM 06/23/02, Michael Edwards wrote: > It seems that you can hide any element of notation in Finale, so that >it is >not visible in a score, but still works in the logic of the program; and that, >on top of the hidden symbol, you can have something else which is visible but >has no eff

Re: [Finale] Tweaking bar-lines with staff styles.

2002-06-22 Thread Colin Broom
(Sorry Michael, meant to send this to the list, not to your personal address. Keep forgetting the system's changed!) Johannes wrote > >Can you explain the steps to do this, I never thought of this (but then I > >haven't come into the situation of needing it, yet, but you never know...). I have

[Finale] Tweaking bar-lines with staff styles.

2002-06-22 Thread Michael Edwards
[Johannes Gebauer:] >On 22.06.2002 18:18 Uhr, Robert Patterson wrote > >> Finale does not directly support non-aligned barlines. However, Staff >> Styles provide a fairly simple workaround, as long as the two staves >> have a reasonable lowest common denominator where the barlines coincide. ... >