Re: [Finale] Score reduction.

2004-06-05 Thread Keith Helgesen
Thanks as ever. I'll spend a couple of hours experimenting with a defunct score- fingers crossed! Cheers K - Original Message - From: dhbailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [Finale] Score reduction. Keith Helgesen wrote:

Re: [Finale] A bug in Tuplet Mover

2004-06-05 Thread Wiz-of-Oz
TM metric settings work only for extending brackets to full metric value, though what I want is metric position of tuplet *number*. TM centers a number horizontaly acording to a graphic center of tuplet bracket, not to its metric center. Please refer to Read p.212, Ross p.161 should you need

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius - Review in Macworld July 2004 Issue

2004-06-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Jun 2004 at 0:11, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: At 7:50 PM -0400 6/04/04, David W. Fenton wrote: On 4 Jun 2004 at 18:55, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: I suppose this amounts to a different philosophy about what I want my notation program to do. You seem to assume a number of things:

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius - Review in Macworld July 2004 Issue

2004-06-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Jun 2004 at 22:17, Mark D Lew wrote: On Jun 4, 2004, at 9:29 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Lyric tool works well. Really? Lyric tool works well if you know what you're doing, or if you never do anything complicated, but it has lots of pit-traps that the unwray can fall into. And

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius - Review in Macworld July 2004 Issue

2004-06-05 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 2:49 PM -0400 6/05/04, David W. Fenton wrote: On 5 Jun 2004 at 0:17, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: Well, I have a couple of macros to accomplish it. Mostly I want to keep control. I re-extract when I see the need, and use the routine I outlined when it would create less work. But why do you

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius - Review in Macworld July 2004 Issue

2004-06-05 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Thank you! That is what I have been hinting at. David W. Fenton wrote: The key distinction between data stored in a spreadsheet and data stored in a relational database is that the latter separates data storage from data presentation, whereas in a spreadsheet, the place where you store the data

Re: [Finale] Score/Part linkages

2004-06-05 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 1:04 PM -0700 6/05/04, Chuck Israels wrote: (Dave is still working with pencils - sometimes faster than we can, and will probably not make the jump to this particular laborious relationship with screens and mice. I find it almost impossible to imagine going back.) Cheers, Chuck Oh, pencil

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius - Review in Macworld July 2004 Issue

2004-06-05 Thread musicminister
For example, I HATE the way Microsoft Word makes assumptions about what I want done with my typing, like correcting my spelling without telling me, or putting bullets or numbers when I hit carriage return. You know you can turn all of that off, right? Aaron. Hey, Aaron, I

[Finale] Chromatic Transposition

2004-06-05 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 05 Jun 2004, at 03:22 PM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: Chromatic Transposition (for transposing instruments without key signatures) was an excellent and badly-needed innovation, but it didn't treat accidentals properly for a couple of versions, A couple of versions? It's STILL not fixed!

[Finale] Pessimistic?

2004-06-05 Thread Richard Yates
I realized that we are into June now - the usual time of year that speculation begins about the release and anticipated new features of the next version of Finale. Unlike other years, however, a maintenance updater to fix the most glaring bugs and steps-backward of the last version is nowhere to

Lyrics (was Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius ...)

2004-06-05 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jun 5, 2004, at 12:22 PM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: Auto word extensions slow down the Mac version of 2004 something awful. Taking lyrics into account for music spacing (this has been part of Finale for a long time, I admit) sometimes gives really odd results, like if you have a long

[Finale] Re: Special Part Extraction

2004-06-05 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 5:27 PM -0700 6/05/04, Brian Williams wrote: FWIW, here are the drawbacks and benefits of my Special Part Extraction method over Express Music's Extract Parts/copy-and-paste method: (snip) One more note: Christopher BJ Smith mentioned the fact that when you change a part in SPE it doesn't

Re: Lyrics (was Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius ...)

2004-06-05 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 7:21 PM -0700 6/05/04, Mark D Lew wrote: On Jun 5, 2004, at 12:22 PM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: And how do you shift syllables for the second verse without messing up the first verse? It's true that it is better than it was, but one still has to be careful, or major screw-ups can occur.

Re: [Finale] Re: Special Part Extraction

2004-06-05 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Chris, I don't think you're getting what Brian is talking about here. I haven't actually tried his method yet -- frankly, it never occurred to me -- but boy does it ever look like a time-saver! Anyhow, what he is doing is making one copy of the score for printing purposes, and then one