[Finale] SmartMusic Sheet Music

2004-08-17 Thread Giovanni Andreani
I see one can purchase music sheets from the SmartMusic Sheet Music page in Finale's website. Are these sheets bound for publication and delivered at home or are they just downloadable .mus files? Thanks Giovanni Andreani ___ Finale mailing list

[Finale] Music Engraving Book

2004-08-17 Thread Giovanni Andreani
I've got to shop trough amazon for a friend and want to add a good book about music engraving, eventually oriented versus modern techniques for creating graphical layouts with music softwares (finale would be appreciated) Thank you Giovanni Andreani

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Giovanni Andreani
When I purchased the upgrade to Finale 2004 I phoned Finale's customer service and they told me I could not buy the software from them and should have to contact a local dealer. Result: products ships a little later (it's ok for me, using Finale in English; the translated version, in any case,

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Rocky Road
Title: Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced * New Fit Width Command. That will be nice for viewing. I always use Fit Width in MS Word. Great way to quickly choose and define the size you want. -- Rocky Road - in Oz Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread dhbailey
Craig Parmerlee wrote: Maybe there's some fluff, maybe not. But they hit the two biggest product defects, IMHO: tuplets and repeats. If they even got those halfway right, 90 bucks for that is a no-brainer. I'll make that up in productivity savings on the very first project. And if, by some

Re: [Finale] SmartMusic Sheet Music

2004-08-17 Thread dhbailey
Giovanni Andreani wrote: I see one can purchase music sheets from the SmartMusic Sheet Music page in Finale's website. Are these sheets bound for publication and delivered at home or are they just downloadable .mus files? Thanks Giovanni Andreani ___

Re: [Finale] Music Engraving Book

2004-08-17 Thread dhbailey
Giovanni Andreani wrote: I've got to shop trough amazon for a friend and want to add a good book about music engraving, eventually oriented versus modern techniques for creating graphical layouts with music softwares (finale would be appreciated) Thank you Giovanni Andreani It's a couple of

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Javier Ruiz
In Canary Islands I pay the shipping, the special kind of VAT we have (5%) and then the customs processing costs, normally 30 euros. (I guess than in your case the VAT is something like 20%). At the end is almost the same than buying it from a dealer, but at least you have it sooner. Javier

Re: [Finale] SmartMusic Sheet Music

2004-08-17 Thread Allen Fisher
Giovanni-- These are the published books/charts for the SmartMusic repertoire. For example, we could enter into a deal with Hal Leonard to create the SmartMusic accompaniment for their edition of the Haydn Trumpet Concerto. We sell that edition so that rehearsal marks in SmartMusic match the

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Éric Dussault
And what about speed on the mac side? Éric Le 17 août 2004, à 10:21, Darcy James Argue a écrit : Well, in the reliability dept., they *did* fix the autosave/text block bug. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL

[Finale] Finale 2005: bugs?

2004-08-17 Thread K. Kastning
I sent an e-mail to MM this morning, asking if a nasty bug from 2k4 was fixed. Below is my e-mail and their reply. Sounds like the bug is still not fixed. Also, in a move which underscores the no-bug-fix sound of the reply, the "click here to comment" link is broken. = Dear

Re: [Finale] OT - ITunes and Josh Groban

2004-08-17 Thread Mark D Lew
On Aug 17, 2004, at 2:36 AM, dhbailey wrote: Rather than being a throwback to Sammy Davis Jr and Robert Goulet, he's more of a throwback to Andrea Bocelli, very similar in his rise to fame in the U.S. but with an American accent rather than Italian. In terms of marketing, Groban certainly

[Finale] Re. Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Patrick Crosley
FWIW I just had a brief talk with MM Customer Support. The upgrade will be shipping within the next week or so depending on the CD manufacturer. The upgrade price of $89 will be effect until the release date and will remain in effect longer only for those upgrading from Fin2004 -- 2005. Users

Re: [Finale] OT - ITunes and Josh Groban

2004-08-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Aug 2004 at 5:36, dhbailey wrote: What's lifting Josh Groban to his popularity is the fact that he is on PBS every begathon, which at least around my area seems to be happening every weekend. If that were his only exposure, I'd never have seen him, because I won't watch PBS during

RE: [Finale] Finale 2005: bugs?

2004-08-17 Thread Lee Actor
At least you got a response. I sent a similar email yesterday morning about the cross-layer accidental positioningbug introduced in 2004b (accidentals in hidden layers incorrectly affect accidental positioning in visible layers), and have not yet received a reply. The "click here to

[Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Jari Williamsson
Hello! I've now put a review (with a few tips) of Finale 2005 on the tips site. http://www.finaletips.nu/ Please let me know if anything in the review is unclear. Best regards, Jari Williamsson ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
Thanks, Jari -- very useful, as always. In previous years, your reviews have pointed out nice features that Coda's marketing missed which convinced me to buy the product. This year, it seems from your write-up that Coda's advertising is unfortunately accurate. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] OT - ITunes and Josh Groban

2004-08-17 Thread Mark D Lew
On Aug 17, 2004, at 10:51 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: If that were his only exposure, I'd never have seen him, because I won't watch PBS during pledge drives (I watch it hardly at all, anyway -- the TiVo hardly ever finds anything worth watching, and when it does, the local station often doesn't

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
Jari, with regard to the scroll view shortcuts (Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn): There is currently (Fin2004) a bug in scroll view. If the rightmost measure is only partially visible (which is usually true) and you scroll one screen to the right by clicking in the scroll bar, sometimes that last measure

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
Hello! I've now put a review (with a few tips) of Finale 2005 on the tips site. http://www.finaletips.nu/ Please let me know if anything in the review is unclear. Best regards, Jari Williamsson Thanks muchly for that. Q: how does 2K5 handle grace notes at the end of a measure (nachschlag)? --

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Wiz-of-Oz
Jari, with great surprise and disappointment have I read in your review: The only options I really miss here is that there is no way to automatically specify extra spaces at the beginning/end of each staff system. however at http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/features/new/engraver.asp I find:

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Jari Williamsson
Wiz-of-Oz writes: Jari, with great surprise and disappointment have I read in your review: The only options I really miss here is that there is no way to automatically specify extra spaces at the beginning/end of each staff system. however at

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Jari Williamsson
Aaron Sherber writes: Jari, with regard to the scroll view shortcuts (Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn): There is currently (Fin2004) a bug in scroll view. If the rightmost measure is only partially visible (which is usually true) and you scroll one screen to the right by clicking in the scroll bar,

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Jari Williamsson
Aaron Sherber writes: In previous years, your reviews have pointed out nice features that Coda's marketing missed which convinced me to buy the product. This year, it seems from your write-up that Coda's advertising is unfortunately accurate. I think they missed a couple of things, like the

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Jari Williamsson
Andrew Stiller Q: how does 2K5 handle grace notes at the end of a measure (nachschlag)? MUCH better than Fin2004. In Fin2004, Finale doesn't add any extra space at the end of the measure even if the nachschlag notes are that many that they will collide with the main note before it. In

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:14 PM 08/17/2004, Jari Williamsson wrote: I think they missed a couple of things, like the additions to the Setup Wizard, didn't they? Yes, I suppose that's true -- but that feature doesn't seem useful to me personally. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Lee Dengler
Jari, You wrote: Also in the Documents Options dialog box, there are two options (called Gutters) to globally control how extra space at the beginning of measures should be treated if the first note of the measure has a tie or accidental. Does the above allow for better control when lyrics are