Re: [Finale] Wish list (was Test Boxes...)

2002-12-11 Thread Crystal Premo
when I need something like "Moderato" followed by a metronome marking in parentheses, I overlay two expressions. Hmm, maybe multiple fonts in an expression is a wish list item? Ooo, yes, yes, please! Crystal Premo [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Finale] Wish list (was Test Boxes...)

2002-12-10 Thread Patsy Moore
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you write: >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 parenthe

Re: [Finale] Wish list item

2002-11-14 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 9:37 pm -0500 11/12/02, Giz Bowe wrote: Does anybody else wish you could attach chords to slashes, without having to fill the measure with rests first? Gods, yes! I haven't thought about this for a while: It isn't really a Wish List item; it's a significant program deficiency. Should we al

Re: [Finale] Wish list item

2002-11-13 Thread Doug Auwarter
>>> Does anybody else wish you could attach chords to slashes, without having >>> to fill the measure with rests first? << Oh yes, absolutely. Doug ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Wish list item

2002-11-13 Thread Crystal Premo
Does anybody else wish you could attach chords to slashes, without having to fill the measure with rests first? << Oh, yes, me, me! I recently took over a project that was filled with slash notation for the guitar and piano. The original copyist had done things in a inconsistent manner, and a

Re: [Finale] Wish list item

2002-11-12 Thread Nico Schliemann
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[Finale] Wish list item

2002-11-12 Thread Giz Bowe
Does anybody else wish you could attach chords to slashes, without having to fill the measure with rests first? * Girard Giz Bowe Richmond VA [EMAIL PROTECTED] no website in sight * ___ Finale ma

[Finale] Re: Finale wish list

2002-07-19 Thread shirling & neueweise
i am several days behind on reading, maybe this has already been suggested, but... >From: "Jari Williamsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >If others have additions or want to vote for the same feature request as you're >sending in, those persons should also send the request to Coda themselves. Otherwise

Re: [Finale] Wish List (idea notepads)

2002-07-18 Thread Don Hart
on 7/13/02 6:32 AM, Peter Castine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> From: Richard Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "finale lists.shsu.edu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> 7. Idea notepads. Wouldn't it be nice to have someplace to store your main >> theme, counter theme, ostinato patterns, riff or whatev

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-18 Thread Colin Broom
Would this be a good idea? I create a new measure or note-attached expression and enter it in the score. I then switch caps lock on (or some other key). Now every time I double-click in another location that same expression will automatically be entered into the score in the new location, attac

Re: [Finale] Re: Finale wish list

2002-07-17 Thread Philip Aker
On Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at 01:32 PM, Colin Broom wrote: > Here's another one I've just thought of (mainly because it's > just been annoying me!). > Midi Tool functions such as "set to" and "scale" etc, should > remember the last value(d) used. It would save me quite a lot > of accumulate

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-16 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 10:42 AM 07/15/02, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: >Still another addition to my list: the ability to embed a carriage return / >linefeed in a text expression, and to have the expression assignment >dialogue turn the >capability of implementing the carriage return or not. This would be useful even wi

Re: [Finale] Re: Finale wish list

2002-07-16 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 09:32 PM 7/16/02 +0100, Colin Broom wrote: >Midi Tool functions such as "set to" and "scale" etc, should remember the >last value(d) used. Oh, yes! I'd forgotten this because I use these frequently for a while, and then not. But yes, please! Dennis

Re: [Finale] Re: Finale wish list

2002-07-16 Thread Colin Broom
e.com - Original Message - From: "Colin Broom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 9:32 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: Finale wish list > Here's another one I've just thought of (mainly because it&#x

Re: [Finale] Re: Finale wish list

2002-07-16 Thread Colin Broom
Here's another one I've just thought of (mainly because it's just been annoying me!). Midi Tool functions such as "set to" and "scale" etc, should remember the last value(d) used. It would save me quite a lot of accumulated time if the "set to" didn't keep defaulting back to 64, and I didn't hav

[Finale] Re: Finale wish list

2002-07-16 Thread Michael Cook
At 18:26 + 16/07/2002, Weldon Whipple wrote: >I have never figured out how to respond to the "There are too many beats >in this measure" dialog. I used to try to figure it out by choosing >different responses whenever I entered too many notes, but I always chose >the wrong button to click. Th

[Finale] Re: Finale wish list

2002-07-16 Thread Weldon Whipple
At 10:29 AM 07/14/02, Don Hart wrote: > Related to my last post is the lack of a cancel button in the "There > are too many beats in this measure" dialog. It'd be nice to have it > back. I have never figured out how to respond to the "There are too many beats in this measure" dialog. I used to tr

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-16 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 10:23 AM 07/15/02, Andrew Stiller wrote: >The ability to copy a text block (including the frame) from one >location to another. This would not enable a block to appear on two >discontinuous pages, but would also allow you to make a dupe and then >edit the copy separately. That does sound hand

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-15 Thread David W. Fenton
On 15 Jul 2002, at 7:22, David H. Bailey wrote: > Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > > > At 06:59 PM 7/14/02 -0400, you wrote: > > > >>I think the idea of separate files connected back to the score file is a > >>complete non-starter. > >> > > > > I don't. The database can be the master file, and a

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread David W. Fenton
On 15 Jul 2002, at 10:20, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > David, I get the feeling you are desperately trying to make this problem a > non-problem, but there is no reason as this is a known problem, at least on > the Mac version. Since you don't even run the Finale version we are > discussing, there is

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-15 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Jul 2002, at 22:27, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 06:59 PM 7/14/02 -0400, you wrote: > >I think the idea of separate files connected back to the score file is a > >complete non-starter. > > I don't. The database can be the master file, and all the other files draw > from it or add to i

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread JD
Andrew, I just went back and tried this in Finale 2000b and 2001d with exactly the same results. I started with a measure of 4/4 time, entered 3 quarter notes and then a whole note. The Too Many Notes dialog box came up and hitting either Cancel or Cmd-period took me right back to the same meas

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread JD
on 7/15/02 1:57 PM, Andrew Stiller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Actually Andrew, if I'm not mistaken, there was a difference when you hit >> Cancel vs Leave Measure Alone in that the editing frame did not advance on >> Cancel but did on Leave Measure Alone. (I too am on a Mac). >> >> J.D. Tho

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
> > I should point out that > > (at least in the Mac version) the old Cancel button didn't do that. >> It's effect was exactly the same as that produced if you clicked the >> Leave Measure Alone radio button and then OK: the editing frame wd. > > advance to the next measure. >Actually Andre

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
>I don't think we should see Finale as a page layout program >that can handle complicated things like real page layout programs (Quark, >Pagemaker or Indesign...) >The people at Coda probably know that its software hasn't the features of >Quark, and also know that the ones of us that are makin

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Bruce Hunter
I really, really, hope I've missed something in the OLD, but what I'd like to see implemented is the ability to, (on a Billybox), control-click separated measures to do things like resize, apply articulations, etc. For instance, I might have a piece that is written in groups of 8 measures, The

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Don Hart
on 7/15/02 9:58 AM, Andrew Stiller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> At 10:29 AM 07/14/02, Don Hart wrote: >> >>> Related to my last post is the lack of a cancel button in the "There are too >>> many beats in this measure" dialog. It'd be nice to have it back. >>> >>> I guess it's more in the "fix

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread JD
on 7/15/02 7:58 AM, Andrew Stiller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Related to my last post is the lack of a cancel button in the "There are too >>> many beats in this measure" dialog. It'd be nice to have it back. >>> >>> I guess it's more in the "fixing what's not broke" category, because I don

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread JD
on 7/15/02 8:27 AM, Éric Dussault at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> While we are on about it, did I mention this? >> When erxtracting parts, keep Title pages (ie blank pages at the beginning) >> intact. >> >> (Currently the title page text blocks appear in the new file, but not on a >> blank page,

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
>On 15.07.2002 17:26 Uhr, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote >> In this situation, I create a set of lyrics in the music font, and adjust >> the baseline. >> >> Dennis > >I don't understand this, can you explain? I create a line of lyrics in the default notation font (rather than a text font) at 24 poin

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 15.07.2002 17:26 Uhr, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote > At 04:38 PM 7/15/02 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >> Anyone got a better solution? > > In this situation, I create a set of lyrics in the music font, and adjust > the baseline. > > Dennis I don't understand this, can you explain? Johannes

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 15.07.2002 17:27 Uhr, Éric Dussault wrote >> While we are on about it, did I mention this? >> When erxtracting parts, keep Title pages (ie blank pages at the beginning) >> intact. >> >> (Currently the title page text blocks appear in the new file, but not on a >> blank page, which requires ra

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Éric Dussault
> Still another addition to my list: the ability to embed a carriage return / > linefeed in a text expression, and to have the expression assignment dialogue > turn the > capability of implementing the carriage return or not. For example, I'd like > to be able > to > create a text expression >

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Still another addition to my list: the ability to embed a carriage return / linefeed in a text expression, and to have the expression assignment dialogue turn the capability of implementing the carriage return or not. For example, I'd like to be able to create a text expression "In strict rhyt

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Éric Dussault
> While we are on about it, did I mention this? > When erxtracting parts, keep Title pages (ie blank pages at the beginning) > intact. > > (Currently the title page text blocks appear in the new file, but not on a > blank page, which requires rather a lot of work to get fixed.) > > Johannes G

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:38 PM 7/15/02 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >Anyone got a better solution? In this situation, I create a set of lyrics in the music font, and adjust the baseline. Dennis ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailma

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
>At 10:29 AM 07/14/02, Don Hart wrote: > >>Related to my last post is the lack of a cancel button in the "There are too >>many beats in this measure" dialog. It'd be nice to have it back. >> >>I guess it's more in the "fixing what's not broke" category, because I don't > >recall ever not having t

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
>On 14 Jul 2002, at 11:52, Andrew Stiller wrote: > >> "Unnecessary" means unnecessary. To *anyone*, *ever*, not just me. A >> prompt to save is unnecessary if it occurs when one attempts to close >> after having made *no changes to the file*. I should have thought >> that blindingly obvious. >

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 15.07.2002 16:23 Uhr, Andrew Stiller wrote > I keep thinking of new ones. Here's another: > > The ability to copy a text block (including the frame) from one > location to another. This would not enable a block to appear on two > discontinuous pages, but would also allow you to make a dupe a

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 15.07.2002 15:41 Uhr, Johannes Gebauer wrote > On 15.07.2002 15:08 Uhr, Barbara Touburg wrote > >>> Then use the >>> measure tool to make the barline dashed. >> >> Then the other barlines in the group get changed, too, at least, over here >> (FinWin2002b). > > Aha, that's what I didn't get:

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
I keep thinking of new ones. Here's another: The ability to copy a text block (including the frame) from one location to another. This would not enable a block to appear on two discontinuous pages, but would also allow you to make a dupe and then edit the copy separately.

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 15.07.2002 15:08 Uhr, Barbara Touburg wrote >> Then use the >> measure tool to make the barline dashed. > > Then the other barlines in the group get changed, too, at least, over here > (FinWin2002b). Aha, that's what I didn't get: you want the dashed barline only in the part with the longer

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Barbara Touburg
Johannes Gebauer schreef: > Perhaps you picked a bad example, but what you are asking is already > possible: Just enter the notes as you say with "Check for Extra Notes" off. Ofcourse, that is how I do this. > (Naturally you will have to adjust the meter so it displays C but is in fact > 4/2)

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Philip Aker
On Sunday, July 14, 2002, at 09:26 PM, Mark D. Lew wrote: > At 4:22 PM 07/14/02, Michael Cook wrote: >> And maybe they could fix those multiple redraws on Mac? > There's a way to turn that off. It's one of the automatic > something-or-other options. I don't remember which one, since > it's s

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-15 Thread David H. Bailey
Not being much of a programmer, isn't OLE designed to do just this very thing? Making the parts linked to the score via OLE (or a similar programming procedure) would be a possible solution, wouldn't it? Or is OLE dead and buried as un-implementable in any working situation? I know that Word

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-15 Thread David H. Bailey
David W. Fenton wrote: > On 14 Jul 2002, at 7:16, David H. Bailey wrote: > > >>Here is a situation that might throw a monkey-wrench into the concept of >>parts-anchored-to-score-file -- What would happen to the parts if you >>write out a full score only to get all the parts just as you wish

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread David H. Bailey
Finale doesn't save printer settings. I can print a file to my non-default inkjet printer, selecting a single page, printing multiple copies, save upon exit and when the file is opened the next time and I enter the print dialog it again lists my default printer, 1 copy and the range is set to

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-15 Thread David H. Bailey
And having the parts included in the "project" file would certainly simplify the sharing of Finale files! And with the option to save part as external file (working as it does now) people who want to publish to PDF files would be able to. I can see having the parts included in the same projec

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 15.07.2002 6:26 Uhr, Mark D. Lew wrote > At 11:44 PM 07/14/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >> I think one can be pretty sure that switching from one tool to another does >> not change anything in the document. If indeed this does change something in >> the file this is fact alone is more concern t

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 15.07.2002 0:59 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote > On 14 Jul 2002, at 11:52, Andrew Stiller wrote: > >> "Unnecessary" means unnecessary. To *anyone*, *ever*, not just me. A >> prompt to save is unnecessary if it occurs when one attempts to close >> after having made *no changes to the file*. I shou

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 15.07.2002 0:59 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote >> My guess is that Finale is simply looking into some Windows generic >> buffer to see if any keypresses or mouse-clicks/drags have been made >> since the previous save command was issued, and if it sees any such >> activity, it prompts you as to whe

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 15.07.2002 0:59 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote > Are your last settings for these operations saved? That is, does Finale > remember your print settings or your page layout settings? No, because none of them have changed. > > I can't see any reason why the latter two could possibly change the fil

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 15.07.2002 0:59 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote > Any program I'm aware of will prompt you to save upon close if there is a > change to the file open in memory that has not been saved to disk. If you > SAVE and the CLOSE and are prompted to save again, it means that, for > whatever reason, the file

Re: Lyric spacing (was Re: [Finale] Finale wish list)

2002-07-14 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 3:58 PM 07/14/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote: [answering me] >>(a plan which is now in limbo, since I've >> discovered that for my main client I'll actually need v2002 for >> Windows...). > >Why? The two are file compatible now, and even the text coding should >automatically get fixed, so there sh

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 11:44 PM 07/14/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >I think one can be pretty sure that switching from one tool to another does >not change anything in the document. If indeed this does change something in >the file this is fact alone is more concern than whether this unwanted >change is actually saved

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 4:22 PM 07/14/02, Michael Cook wrote: >- the possibility of putting more space between the first note of a >system and whatever comes just before it (clef, key signature or time >signature). You do know that you can set most of these values under Options-> Document Settings-> Music Options, r

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 10:29 AM 07/14/02, Don Hart wrote: >Related to my last post is the lack of a cancel button in the "There are too >many beats in this measure" dialog. It'd be nice to have it back. > >I guess it's more in the "fixing what's not broke" category, because I don't >recall ever not having the option

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-14 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 06:59 PM 7/14/02 -0400, you wrote: >I think the idea of separate files connected back to the score file is a >complete non-starter. I don't. The database can be the master file, and all the other files draw from it or add to it to produce their "reports". Putting everything in one file is a r

Re: Score and parts Linkage (was [Finale] Wish List )

2002-07-14 Thread John Howell
Colin Broom wrote: > >[Dreamy unrealistic musing that's never going to happen follows:] The idea >of score and parts being linked is interesting and I've thought about this a >lot (doesn't Igor have an interesting way of dealing with this? Anyone know >how it works?) One could have a separate par

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Jul 2002, at 7:16, David H. Bailey wrote: > Here is a situation that might throw a monkey-wrench into the concept of > parts-anchored-to-score-file -- What would happen to the parts if you > write out a full score only to get all the parts just as you wish, but > then you don't want a fu

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Jul 2002, at 11:52, Andrew Stiller wrote: > "Unnecessary" means unnecessary. To *anyone*, *ever*, not just me. A > prompt to save is unnecessary if it occurs when one attempts to close > after having made *no changes to the file*. I should have thought > that blindingly obvious. >From w

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Jul 2002, at 9:31, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 14.07.2002 5:12 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote > > > This is the kind of request that makes computer programmers scream. > > > > How the hell could Coda know what you consider to be "unnecessary prompts > > to save"? I don't have any clue what y

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 13 Jul 2002, at 23:32, Don Hart wrote: > on 7/13/02 10:12 PM, David W. Fenton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> --Eliminate unnecessary prompts to save. > > > > This is the kind of request that makes computer programmers scream. > > > > How the hell could Coda know what you consider to be

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Jul 2002, at 3:37, Jón Kristinn Cortez wrote: > On 14.7.2002 03:12, "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 13 Jul 2002, at 10:58, Andrew Stiller wrote: > > > >> Meanwhile, here are my requests: > >> > >> --Eliminate unnecessary prompts to save. > > > > This is the kind of

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Jul 2002, at 7:38, David H. Bailey wrote: > For some reason (which I don't understand, since it isn't saved as part > of the file), when you change any of the default settings in the Print > window, Finale feels as if you have entered some new data into the file > itself, and therefore a

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Jul 2002, at 18:43, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > Here are some examples: > -print > -change to the layout tool and back to any other tool > -open a speedy entry box and close it again without doing anything (still no > undo) > -in the articulation tool click a note and cancel > > Any of these

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Jul 2002, at 4:31, John Bell wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > > > --Eliminate unnecessary prompts to save. > > > >This is the kind of request that makes computer programmers scream. > > Actually Andrew Stiller (who you're quoting) has a point. Most > computer programs are satisfied w

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Jul 2002, at 8:23, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > The option to show stuff in parts > is presently poorly implemented. I know each of these options starts to > create file bloat, but every item in a score could have along with it > information about whether it's to appear in a part. These wo

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 15.07.2002 0:17 Uhr, Robert Patterson wrote > Johannes Gebauer wrote: >> switching from one tool to another does >> not change anything in the document. > > It changes something, though, because Finale remembers which tool you > were on the next time you launch it. > No, it saves the tool in

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.07.2002 23:51 Uhr, Barbara Touburg wrote > 2. The possibility to have group-independent different barlines at any place I > wish. I would use this heavily in transcriptions of Renaissance music. For > example, I would like to notate: C whole - half - whole - dashed barline - > empty > space

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Robert Patterson
Johannes Gebauer wrote: > switching from one tool to another does > not change anything in the document. It changes something, though, because Finale remembers which tool you were on the next time you launch it. I think we are having a heated agreement. I agree that the example you gave should n

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Barbara Touburg
Here are my two wishes. I leave it to the wiser listers to decide whether they are utopic or realistic. 1. Real independent time signatures with independent (meaning not lining up vertically) barlines, for example 9/8 against 5/4, while in both time signatures the eighth note has the fixed durati

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.07.2002 22:42 Uhr, Robert Patterson wrote > You've missed my point, which is that there clearly *are* some doc > changes that are not recorded in the undo list (e.g. Page Setup), > therefore to tie the prompt to the undo log (as it should), Coda must > include everything that is not curren

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Robert Patterson
Johannes Gebauer wrote: > > If you found that changes to the page setup do not get recorded in the undo > log then that's another problem. Indeed. > > Here is what I wrote: Believe it or not, I can read and did so the first time. You've missed my point, which is that there clearly *are* some

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.07.2002 21:15 Uhr, Robert Patterson wrote > Johannes Gebauer wrote: >> >> No for the first part, because that's already what happens. > > Not true. Changes to the Page Setup certainly change the document, but > they do not appear in the Undo/Redo lists. If you found that changes to the p

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Robert Patterson
Johannes Gebauer wrote: > > No for the first part, because that's already what happens. Not true. Changes to the Page Setup certainly change the document, but they do not appear in the Undo/Redo lists. > only > an entry in the undo list (assuming that this already logs everything) > should cause

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.07.2002 19:35 Uhr, Robert Patterson wrote > Johannes Gebauer wrote: >> None of these creates an undo entry. >> > > So the real enhancement request should be: anything that changes the > document should create an undo entry, and the prompt for saves should > only occur if there are unsaved

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Robert Patterson
Johannes Gebauer wrote: > None of these creates an undo entry. > So the real enhancement request should be: anything that changes the document should create an undo entry, and the prompt for saves should only occur if there are unsaved undo entries. This eliminates the vagueness in the request

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.07.2002 18:11 Uhr, Robert Patterson wrote > Andrew Stiller wrote: >> A >> prompt to save is unnecessary if it occurs when one attempts to close >> after having made *no changes to the file*. > > I, too, remember the bad old days when this happened universally. And if > Andrew says it has b

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Robert Patterson
Andrew Stiller wrote: > A > prompt to save is unnecessary if it occurs when one attempts to close > after having made *no changes to the file*. I, too, remember the bad old days when this happened universally. And if Andrew says it has begun to creep back into Finale, I will accept his word, alth

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Andrew Stiller
Fenton: > >This is the kind of request that makes computer programmers scream. > >How the hell could Coda know what you consider to be "unnecessary prompts >to save"? I don't have any clue what you mean here. > Coda never had problems understanding me in the past, as I nagged them with that req

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Don Hart
Related to my last post is the lack of a cancel button in the "There are too many beats in this measure" dialog. It'd be nice to have it back. I guess it's more in the "fixing what's not broke" category, because I don't recall ever not having the option before. Don Hart

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Don Hart
on 7/14/02 9:20 AM, Mark D. Lew at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 7:37 PM 07/13/02, Jón Kristinn Cortez wrote: > >> You work, you save, you print, you close - >> and you are asked if you want to save! Why? > > I always assumed this had something to do with the Text->Inserts->Time. > Maybe it was

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Michael Cook
At 23:33 +0200 12/07/2002, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >Bugs and problems to be fixed: > >- Fix grace note spacing to work (it never worked, so it's not really a bug) > >- Fix independent time sig spacing I'm certainly going to send (again!) a request to Coda about these two issues. I might add feat

Re: Lyric spacing (was Re: [Finale] Finale wish list)

2002-07-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.07.2002 14:55 Uhr, Mark D. Lew wrote > Probably it's a lot more useful for someone who is less perfectionist about > spacing. I can see that running all the New Spacing tools could very well > mean the difference between "not quite right, but close enough" as opposed > to unacceptably bad.

Re: Lyric spacing (was Re: [Finale] Finale wish list)

2002-07-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.07.2002 14:55 Uhr, Mark D. Lew wrote > Yes and no. I don't have TG Tools operational, because I ran into a system > conflict with my old machine (I do have system 8.0, but some add-on library > is missing). It's possible I might be able to fix this, but since I'm > weaning from the Mac to

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-14 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 6:49 AM 07/13/02, David H. Bailey wrote: >THAT is one feature that I think most Finale users would love -- the >ability to use tools "invisibly" -- the program would know which tool to >use so that we could work without having to use the tool palettes >unless/until we wanted to. > >So that WE

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-14 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 11:55 PM 07/13/02, Peter Castine wrote: [answering me] >>I too dabbled in Mosaic once, > >When? Not very long ago, actually, in the course of a show I was in earlier this year. The composer (and artistic director of the company) was a long-time user of the sequencer which is associated with

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 7:37 PM 07/13/02, Jón Kristinn Cortez wrote: >You work, you save, you print, you close - >and you are asked if you want to save! Why? I always assumed this had something to do with the Text->Inserts->Time. Maybe it was just a coincidence, but it seems like the "unnecessary" save request was i

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-14 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 11:55 PM 07/13/02, Peter Castine wrote: >Think WordStar... I guess it wouldn't surprise you, then, to learn that I did indeed used to use Wordstar, many long years ago. >(Incidentally, that's why I'm not particularly fond of the idea, although >the extension to typed-in list selection can be

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-14 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 08:42 AM 7/14/02 -0400, you wrote: >I'm not quite sure what you mean by "journalled undo" but Finale has the >capability to "allow undo past save" and I believe it also allows you to >set the number of undo levels, so that you can conceivably undo >everything back to a blank staff that you b

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-14 Thread David H. Bailey
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: [snip] >>What would happen to the UNDO function if you initiate some killer >>change and later decide it wasn't so great after all? Would it be able >>to Undo all the changes to the parts as well? >> > > There has not been a kind of journalling undo available, at

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-14 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 07:16 AM 7/14/02 -0400, David H. Bailey wrote: >Here is a situation that might throw a monkey-wrench into the concept of >parts-anchored-to-score-file -- What would happen to the parts if you >write out a full score only to get all the parts just as you wish, but >then you don't want a full

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
An addition to my earlier wish list suggestions: The ability to edit the text-box attributes of an arbitrary text box.. At present, it is possible in Finale to "lose" a text box, by shifting it out of the bounds of a page. If you find that you have done this in a current session, one can undo b

Lyric spacing (was Re: [Finale] Finale wish list)

2002-07-14 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 12:17 PM 07/13/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >I don't deal very much with lyrics, but doesn't TGTools already deal with >this? >I think it is called "New Spacing" Yes and no. I don't have TG Tools operational, because I ran into a system conflict with my old machine (I do have system 8.0, but

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 6:57 AM 07/13/02, David H. Bailey wrote: >I have found that it is easiest (at least to my convoluted mind) to >simply enter as many occurances of the word as I want in the score. > [...] >I know it may seem to be more work initially, but when I edit things >later on my life is so much easier!

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread David H. Bailey
For some reason (which I don't understand, since it isn't saved as part of the file), when you change any of the default settings in the Print window, Finale feels as if you have entered some new data into the file itself, and therefore asks if you want to save the file. My guess is that Final

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.07.2002 13:16 Uhr, David H. Bailey wrote > Here is a situation that might throw a monkey-wrench into the concept of > parts-anchored-to-score-file -- What would happen to the parts if you > write out a full score only to get all the parts just as you wish, but > then you don't want a full s

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-14 Thread David H. Bailey
Here is a situation that might throw a monkey-wrench into the concept of parts-anchored-to-score-file -- What would happen to the parts if you write out a full score only to get all the parts just as you wish, but then you don't want a full score anymore so you collaps it into a condensed scor

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.07.2002 5:12 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote > This is the kind of request that makes computer programmers scream. > > How the hell could Coda know what you consider to be "unnecessary prompts > to save"? I don't have any clue what you mean here. Fortunately Coda does know what Andrew means. I

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