[Finale] [OT] international pitch nomenclature

2004-07-28 Thread Ken Moore
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Traditionally, all the parts in a standard British-style Brass Band (of which there are representative examples all over the world, including mainland Europe and North America) are in transposed Treble Clef, even the Tenor

[Finale] [OT] international pitch nomenclature

2004-07-28 Thread Jonathan Smith
Traditionally, all the parts in a standard British-style Brass Band (of which there are representative examples all over the world, including mainland Europe and North America) are in transposed Treble Clef, even the Tenor Trombones and EEb BBb Tubas, which we refer to as Basses. The only

Re: [Finale] Re: No more OS9!

2004-07-28 Thread Javier Ruiz
You are right. But I would not keep working with a 10 Gb hard disk that is probably 4 years old. I´d replace the internal one with a new one _and_ would buy an external firewire equal or greater than the internal. And well, the hassle of the jumpers is not that big when you consider what you

[Finale] Chord size frustration

2004-07-28 Thread Crystal Premo
Okay, what am I doing wrong? I stripped the chords out of my file and copied everything else into a new one. I changed the chord font size, but when I need to create a new chord, I have to fiddle with the sizes. I just want to change all my chord symbols to a larger size. Crystal Premo

Re: [Finale] Hard Drives [was Re: No more OS9!]

2004-07-28 Thread dhbailey
Darcy James Argue wrote: I don't actually recommend installing a second internal HD if you intend to use it primarily as a backup drive (to replace those infernal ZIP disks). Internal ATA drives are slightly cheaper than an external FireWire drive, but *much* less convenient for transferring

Re: [Finale] Unbeamed Hidden Notes

2004-07-28 Thread dhbailey
Giovanni Andreani wrote: On 28.07.2004 7:58 Uhr, Giovanni Andreani wrote I've got a series of rhythmic patterns (each pattern is made of two 16th notes and four 32nd notes all beamed together). When I hide the notes (H key in speedy entry tool) they get unbeamed. This, I understand, while

Re: [Finale] Chord size frustration

2004-07-28 Thread Klaas de Jong
Hi, Change the root font in options/document options/fonts for the suffices: Chord Tool Chord Menu Change Chord Suffix Fonts, works for me in macfin2k3 in PantherClassic Cheers, Klaas de Jong. Op 28-jul-04 om 12:46 heeft Crystal Premo het volgende geschreven: Okay, what am I doing wrong? I

Re: [Finale] Hard Drives [was Re: No more OS9!]

2004-07-28 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 28.07.2004 12:54 Uhr, dhbailey wrote I don't actually recommend installing a second internal HD if you intend to use it primarily as a backup drive (to replace those infernal ZIP disks). Internal ATA drives are slightly cheaper than an external FireWire drive, but *much* less convenient

[Finale] Forcing clef to display

2004-07-28 Thread Giz Bowe
I want to display a clef on a particular measure, which is not the first in the staff. I can't find anything in the documentation about forcing a display without a previous clef change. There's a reference in an old post about 2001 allowing a clef to be displayed on each measure, but no

Re: [Finale] Forcing clef to display

2004-07-28 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 28.07.2004 18:26 Uhr, Giz Bowe wrote I want to display a clef on a particular measure, which is not the first in the staff. I can't find anything in the documentation about forcing a display without a previous clef change. There's a reference in an old post about 2001 allowing a clef to be

Re: [Finale] feature request for Finale 2006

2004-07-28 Thread Éric Dussault
I was thinking of 2 ways of achieving it in Finale : 1- Simply add a new tool in the smart shape toolbar 2- Add an option to the existing dashed slur to make it tapered of not The first solution would be more flexible since for whatever reason both tapered and non-tapered dashed slurs could be

[Finale] 64 channels/sounds with internal playback

2004-07-28 Thread Javier Ruiz
Dear all, I don´t know if this has worked before (and if it did I am a perfect donkey!) but now the internal softsynth in Finale 2004 allows you to play 64 different channels with 64 different internal sounds. I can´t recall if that was possible in Mac OS 9, but since it is a fantastic feature

Re: [Finale] Using shapes to make ritardandos

2004-07-28 Thread CummingsDL
Noel reported that it has been supposedly fixed in the more recent updates to 2004. I don't know because I haven't tried it since it didn't work well for me before, BUT one of the workarounds that somebody reported was that after you defined the shape and set the time and level scales you

Re: [Finale] feature request for Finale 2006

2004-07-28 Thread dhbailey
Andrew Stiller wrote: WR: Tapered dotted slurs : FWIW, Sibelius does these really nicely --Unless you want to adjust them, in which case they're prone to disappear altogether! Furthermore, putting one in is considerably more effortful than a normal slur: normal slur: Select a note. Type

Re: [Finale] feature request for Finale 2006

2004-07-28 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 28.07.2004 20:40 Uhr, dhbailey wrote Is the Mac version that much different from the Windows version? Nope, exactly the same in every respect. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] feature request for Finale 2006

2004-07-28 Thread dhbailey
Brad Beyenhof wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:40:28 -0400, dhbailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With WinFin2004b (and as far back as I can remember) dotted slur is in the smartshape palette immediately under the normal slur. The point of this thread, though, is to request *tapered* dotted slurs; i.e.

Re: [Finale] feature request for Finale 2006

2004-07-28 Thread Éric Dussault
We were talking about tapered dashed slurs, which are not supported in both Windows and Mac versions of Finale. Dashed slurs in Finale do not have the shape of a normal slur, it is only a dashed LINE. Éric Le 28 juil. 2004, à 14:40, dhbailey a écrit : With WinFin2004b (and as far back as I can

{Spam} [Finale] Super-Mini USB Controller

2004-07-28 Thread Henry E. Howey
I saw this with the FINALE troup that goes around to conventions. It's a super small MIDI keyboard that is about half the width of a standard 105-key computer keyboard. It's black around what look like an octave-plus set of full-size piano keys. I do a lot of traveling, and this looks to be a

Re: [Finale] feature request for Finale 2006

2004-07-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 28 Jul 2004, at 02:40 PM, dhbailey wrote: Andrew Stiller wrote: --Unless you want to adjust them, in which case they're prone to disappear altogether! Furthermore, putting one in is considerably more effortful than a normal slur: normal slur: Select a note. Type S. Extend it one note at a

RE: [Finale] Forcing clef to display

2004-07-28 Thread Burt Fenner
Giz, Make a small bar with a clef (after the bar line, and make sure it is at 100%) before the bar with the key signature, then make the bar line before the key signature invisible. BF -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Giz Bowe Sent:

Re: [Finale] Forcing clef to display

2004-07-28 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 28.07.2004 21:49 Uhr, Giz Bowe wrote I wish I could say this worked, but it didn't. I can get a clef to appear with some kludging, but it's placed AFTER the key signature. Can anybody duplicate this and tell if it's a bug, or is it just me? Now I don't understand. I thought you said it

Re: [Finale] Forcing clef to display

2004-07-28 Thread James E. Bailey
Which version of Finale are you using? I'm on 2k4, and it works just fine. Am 28.07.2004 14:00 Uhr, schrieb: Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 28.07.2004 21:49 Uhr, Giz Bowe wrote I wish I could say this worked, but it didn't. I can get a clef to appear with some kludging, but it's

[Finale] Finale and SMART Quotes/Apostrophe

2004-07-28 Thread Ted Horman
Greetings, kindof a newbe. Does Fin04 (PC) have a method to use smart quotes etc in lyrics? Ted __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Re: [Finale] Finale and SMART Quotes/Apostrophe

2004-07-28 Thread James E. Bailey
If it doesn't, you can always use the keyboard map to learn what the key command is to force correct quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes, etc. 2k4 for Mac doesn't (to my knowledge), but I memorised the character combinations years ago. Am 28.07.2004 14:30 Uhr, schrieb: Ted Horman [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] Forcing clef to display

2004-07-28 Thread Giz Bowe
At 05:00 PM 7/28/04, you wrote: Now I don't understand. I thought you said it wasn't the first measure in the staff. Why is there a key sig? Did you click Display clef after barline? Switch it off. I wrote that this measure follows an invisible measure, which I'm using to indent the staff, making

Re: [Finale] Forcing clef to display

2004-07-28 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:50:59 -0400, Giz Bowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote that this measure follows an invisible measure, which I'm using to indent the staff, making this measure the first visible measure in the staff. That's why I want a key sig clef. Well, if that is all you want, you

Re: [Finale] feature request for Finale 2006

2004-07-28 Thread dhbailey
Darcy James Argue wrote: On 28 Jul 2004, at 02:40 PM, dhbailey wrote: Andrew Stiller wrote: --Unless you want to adjust them, in which case they're prone to disappear altogether! Furthermore, putting one in is considerably more effortful than a normal slur: normal slur: Select a note. Type S.

Re: [Finale] Forcing clef to display

2004-07-28 Thread Giz Bowe
At 05:21 PM 7/28/04, you wrote: Which version of Finale are you using? I'm on 2k4, and it works just fine. Here's a copy of my original post - the measure I'm working with is the second measure in the staff, after an invisible measure which has been forced to begin a new staff system. I'm

Re: [Finale] Forcing clef to display

2004-07-28 Thread James E. Bailey
Why not get rid of the invisible measure and simply force the measure in question onto a new system and indent it. Am 28.07.2004 14:50 Uhr, schrieb: Giz Bowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 05:00 PM 7/28/04, you wrote: Now I don't understand. I thought you said it wasn't the first measure in the staff.

[Finale] Upgrade to 24k

2004-07-28 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Yesterday I went to the Finale Site and downloaded 24k c (about 3 hours). Anyway, I tried to open a new file in Wizard today, and got the message: Finale cannot start the Wizard because a necessary data file (pagesizes.txt) couldn't be found in the Component files folder. What do I do? Dean

Re: [Finale] [OT] international pitch nomenclature

2004-07-28 Thread John Howell
At 10:56 AM +0200 7/28/04, Jonathan Smith wrote: That is why any publisher worth his salt will provide parts for ALL clefs and instruments, that way assuring sales to any country, surely a good thing and so easy to accomplish in new publications when using Finale and other music notation

Re: [Finale] Forcing clef to display

2004-07-28 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 28.07.2004 23:50 Uhr, Giz Bowe wrote At 05:00 PM 7/28/04, you wrote: Now I don't understand. I thought you said it wasn't the first measure in the staff. Why is there a key sig? Did you click Display clef after barline? Switch it off. I wrote that this measure follows an invisible

Re: [Finale] Forcing clef to display

2004-07-28 Thread Giz Bowe
I'm trying to adjust this in the score so I don't have to do it for each individual part, which is what I have to do if I indent the system using the Layout tool. At 05:58 PM 7/28/04, you wrote: Why not get rid of the invisible measure and simply force the measure in question onto a new system

Re: [Finale] Upgrade to 24k

2004-07-28 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
On Jul 28, 2004, at 3:26 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 29.07.2004 0:12 Uhr, Dean M. Estabrook wrote Yesterday I went to the Finale Site and downloaded 24k c (about 3 hours). Anyway, I tried to open a new file in Wizard today, and got the message: Finale cannot start the Wizard because a

Re: [Finale] Forcing clef to display

2004-07-28 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:26:26 -0400, Giz Bowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:58 PM 7/28/04, you wrote: Why not get rid of the invisible measure and simply force the measure in question onto a new system and indent it. I'm trying to adjust this in the score so I don't have to do it for each

Re: [Finale] Hard Drives [was Re: No more OS9!]

2004-07-28 Thread Paul Hayden
It certainly _is_ a good idea to backup your internal hard drive and keep a copy off-site. I back up (using Dantz's Retrospect Desktop) to two different sets of DVD-RAM disks (2.6 GB per side) and keep one set in a safe deposit box (which costs maybe $25 per year). I also backup to an external

Re: [Finale] Forcing clef to display

2004-07-28 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Don't bother, it's more hassle than it's worth. Just my 2 cents. Johannes On 29.07.2004 0:26 Uhr, Giz Bowe wrote I'm trying to adjust this in the score so I don't have to do it for each individual part, which is what I have to do if I indent the system using the Layout tool. At 05:58 PM

Re: [Finale] Upgrade to 24k

2004-07-28 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
On Jul 28, 2004, at 3:26 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 29.07.2004 0:12 Uhr, Dean M. Estabrook wrote Yesterday I went to the Finale Site and downloaded 24k c (about 3 hours). Anyway, I tried to open a new file in Wizard today, and got the message: Finale cannot start the Wizard because a

Re: [Finale] Upgrade to 24k

2004-07-28 Thread Richard Yates
Ok. after much fumbling about (I'm really technologically challanged, I got the file moved to the correct folder (called 2004b), and it opens ok. Then when I tried to use the User's Manual, I got the same kind of message, so I repeated the process, and got it to work also. I wonder