At 12:05 pm +0200 5/10/02, Jari Williamsson wrote:
So do you suggest that we should move from the flexible
any-page-can-have-any-size to an only-one-page-size-per-document
approach?
Of course not. It's just the wisdom of requiring the user, especially
the new user, to select the orientation
d. collins writes:
Johannes Gebauer wrote (in his tutorial):
In your default file, set the Top System Margin to 0. Make up for this
change by adding an appropriate amount to the Bottom System Margin. The
reason for this is that the two are dealt with differently in relation to
the
d. collins writes:
Thanks, Jari. But what about the very first system, which needs to start
further down on the page, to leave room for the title, etc.? How do you
place it correctly if you don't use the top system margin?
Edit the Space between System value for the first staff system.
, the staff
margins determine how high or low artics and expressions can go before being
forced on to another staff, right??
Jim
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On 11.05.2002 13:17 Uhr, Eden - Lawrence D. wrote
I have a plug-in request:
I want a plug in that tells Finale how many Systems per Page to put on the
paper.
Not a bad idea, though in recent versions (I think 2k1 up) there is a New
Page command, one of the most useful additions in recent
On Thursday, May 9, 2002, at 03:25 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
Also, I personally haven't had a problem with text block
placement using page reduction since I started putting page
text blocks (i.e. headers and footers) OUTSIDE the margins.
'Nother thing is that I get better results with
From: Johannes Gebauer
There is one problem I can see with fixed point sizes: It will no
longer be possible to convert A4 scores to A3 and vice versa.
euh... was meinst du eigentlich? in which way[s]?
jef
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on 10.05.02 21:36, shirling neueweise at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Johannes Gebauer
There is one problem I can see with fixed point sizes: It will no
longer be possible to convert A4 scores to A3 and vice versa.
euh... was meinst du eigentlich? in which way[s]?
jef
I do not
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Matthew,
Thank-you very much for the well-thought feedback.
Thanks for your time,
Allen
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in that direction, personally.
Randy
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all title page text blocks should be set to *fixed* point sizes
On 10.05.2002 0:25 Uhr, Chuck Israels wrote
At 10:47 AM -0700 5/9/02, Philip Aker wrote:
I've already sent over my request for Finale Macintosh Defaults not
to come setup with alien fonts like Ariel and Times New Roman.
WRT to page reductions though, I've used page reduction with fixed
On 10.05.2002 0:29 Uhr, shirling neueweise wrote
all comments relate to F2001...
Johannes:
You should consider using System reduction instead of page
reduction. Page reduction will always change the position of
textblocks on the page depending on the reduction value.
not when the page
On 05.05.2002 22:13 Uhr, Giz Bowe wrote
I'm not sure if this is the best way to make these suggestions, but here
they are nonetheless:
1) I'd like to have more field options in File Info, and they should be
capable of being user-defined. For example, I'd like to have fields called
Album
Not exactly responding to your query, but why Coda does not add Spanish,
Italian and French instrument names to the wizard?
I am willing to share my Spanish list...
Javie Ruiz.
Hello List,
My name is Allen Fisher and I am a Coda employee and occasional lurker on
this list. During the time
Matthew Hindson writes
For other markings, e.g. crescendo, I like 12 point italic, though some
publishers prefer 14 point italic. I like 14 point italic for bar numbers.
I don't agree, one reason is that having the same font/style for both
playing instructions and measure numbers will not
John Howell writes:
And by the way, our music department started with Mosaic, switched to
Finale about 4 years ago, and will probably make a decision to switch to
Sibelius within the next month because starting this summer we are moving
to Mac OS X and must have a product that is compatible
Robert Patterson wrote:
If this is really the only reason you are switching, it is a silly one.
From the
rest of your post, it seems you have many other grievances, and I won't try to
argue with them. But if you really are only switching because you don't
yet have
a carbonized Finale, that is
Hello Allen,
here are a few things I would suggest changing in the default settings:
1. Beaming style
None of the beaming styles will give perfect results in all
situations, but the style flatten beams based on extreme note comes
closer than the standard note style that is used at present. I
on 5/1/02 11:51 AM, John Howell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And no, that isn't the only reason my department head is considering
switching, although it's the proximate one. Too many students are making
too many complaints about not being able to figure out how to use Finale.
That's a fairly
Hi Allen,
This is just to add a voice to what Phil Shaw wrote below. After the
fact global style changes which could be applied to existing files
would be a great boon.
Chuck
At 10:41 AM -0700 5/1/02, Phil Shaw wrote:
Hi Allen,
Your request for suggestions on defaults gives me a chance
At 12:51 PM -0500 5/1/02, Don Hart wrote:
on 5/1/02 11:51 AM, John Howell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And no, that isn't the only reason my department head is considering
switching, although it's the proximate one. Too many students are making
too many complaints about not being able to
You seem to be thinking in terms of improving the
hard-wired defaults. What I'd like is a style
mechanism that lets a user develop a set of defaults.
Finale's libraries are supposed to do this. The problem is that there are
so many different library types, that you must load seven or eight
Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
You seem to be thinking in terms of improving the
hard-wired defaults. What I'd like is a style
mechanism that lets a user develop a set of defaults.
Finale's libraries are supposed to do this. The problem is that there are
so many different library types, that
I would like to learn more specifically about what difficulties your
students are experiencing. I have recently done a series of composition
workshops with students (aged 12 to 17) here in Budapest at American and
German schools. All of them use Finale on one platform or the other,
all are
On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 10:14 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote:
John Howell writes:
And by the way, our music department started with Mosaic, switched to
Finale about 4 years ago, and will probably make a decision to switch
to
Sibelius within the next month because starting this summer
Fisher, Allen writes:
My name is Allen Fisher and I am a Coda employee and occasional lurker on
this list. During the time I've been on the list, I've noticed some
complaints about Finale's default settings. Specific suggestions on what
could be done to improve this area of Finale are often
For the most part I agree with Jari. See below.
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Fisher, Allen writes:
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