Re: [Finale] My first orchestral commission

2004-11-22 Thread laloba2
I must tell you that it was not an accident. He killed himself. I knew his intentions but I could not help him enough. (I guess I am not the right person to that kind of job). Oh Javier I am so sorry...this is a very difficult thing to get through. The loss of a friend is painful enough...and

[Finale] woodwind fingering font

2004-11-22 Thread shirling neueweise
a few years ago i checked out a font for indicating fingerings (for sax i believe), but can't find it anymore or recall the name of it. does anyone have or know of a font for oboe fingerings? thanks, jef -- shirling neueweise \/ new music notation specialists mailto:[EMAIL

[Finale] MacFin2005a save bug?

2004-11-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, I dunno if anyone else sees this behavior, but in MacFin2005a, it seems like the files are always flagged as dirty, i.e., unsaved. In OS X, when a file has unsaved changes, the red widget in the title bar gets a small black circle in the center, and and the icon in the title bar fades

Re: [Finale] MacFin2005a save bug?

2004-11-22 Thread Johannes Gebauer
I don't see the same behaviour. I agree that occasionally Finale thinks that a file as changes when it doesn't. Selecting the page format tool is one action which will trigger this. I also see the red widget misbehaving both ways, it doesn't always show when it should and it also does show

Re: [Finale] MacFin2005a save bug?

2004-11-22 Thread Jari Williamsson
Johannes Gebauer wrote: I don't see the same behaviour. I agree that occasionally Finale thinks that a file as changes when it doesn't. Selecting the page format tool is one action which will trigger this. If this is related to how the Windows version behaves, AUL is also a factor. Best regards,

Re: [Finale] MacFin2005a save bug?

2004-11-22 Thread Jari Williamsson
d. collins wrote: What's strange is that some viewing options (grid) are saved with the file (and hence considered as changes), and some aren't (page view/scroll view, zoom, etc.). View/zoom when the document opens is controlled by the Program Options, since it's not considered to be related to

Re: [Finale] Request for help with handbell chart of bells

2004-11-22 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Ken Wilson wrote: Anyone with handbell score experience? I havent worked with a Finale bell score for a some time, until tonight. But I thought I remembered that earlier when you chose handbells in the setup wizard, an editable (of course) default Chart of Bells Used would appear at the top of

Re: [Finale] Re: Finale 2005 CD Doesn't work in Mac Titanium G4 Powerbooks!!!

2004-11-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 22 Nov 2004, at 07:07 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: Suggesting you replace your laptop's perfectly good optical drive because they screwed up the manufacturing/duplication is offensive in the extreme. Can you give examples of some other dual platform (Win/OSX combo) CDs

Re: [Finale] Re: Finale 2005 CD Doesn't work in Mac Titanium G4 Powerbooks!!!

2004-11-22 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Jari Williamsson / 04.11.22 / 7:07AM wrote: Can you give examples of some other dual platform (Win/OSX combo) CDs that this can drive _can_ handle? TiBook800 ComboDrive most definitely reads hybrid CDR. If Finale hybrid installer has problem with certain Mac, they probably didn't create the

Re: [Finale] Re: Finale 2005 CD Doesn't work in Mac Titanium G4 Powerbooks!!!

2004-11-22 Thread Jari Williamsson
A-NO-NE Music wrote: Now Finale has hybrid install? Do you still have to pay double? http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/features/new/ Click on Mac/Win Hybrid CD Best regards, Jari Williamsson ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Hyphen problem

2004-11-22 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Dennis provided a valuable solution for the problem about which Ryan Beard wrote. I'm having a heck of a time getting rid of an errant hyphen in lyrics. I can re-type the syllables into the score, but the hyphen just seems to move around at will. I've tried going into the EDIT LYRICS dialogue,

Re: [Finale] woodwind fingering font

2004-11-22 Thread Javier Ruiz
I think it was made by Matthew Hindson. Check his website... Javier. a few years ago i checked out a font for indicating fingerings (for sax i believe), but can't find it anymore or recall the name of it. does anyone have or know of a font for oboe fingerings? thanks, jef

Re: [Finale] woodwind fingering font

2004-11-22 Thread Brad Beyenhof
Yes, his recorder and sax fingering fonts are on his site at: http://hindson.com.au/ Unfortunately I don't know of any font-type solutions to oboe fingerings, but Matthew's fonts (particularly if you use the text bits for the sidekeys instead of the full sax diagram) might be adaptable to this

Re: [Finale] Hyphen problem

2004-11-22 Thread Harold Owen
Ryan Beard writes: I'm having a heck of a time getting rid of an errant hyphen in lyrics. I can re-type the syllables into the score, but the hyphen just seems to move around at will. I've tried going into the EDIT LYRICS dialogue, but as luck would have it, this portion of lyrics somehow doesn't

[Finale] Internal Playback/Instruments

2004-11-22 Thread Neal Gittleman
FinMac 2004c.r1, System 10.3.6, PowerBook G4, using Internal Speaker Playback... Yesterday I noticed some odd playback behavior. I was doing some arranging and wanted to aurally proof stuff as I was going along. If I try to isolate several staves and play only them playback doesn't always

Re: [Finale] Re: Finale 2005 CD Doesn't work in Mac Titanium G4 Powerbooks!!!

2004-11-22 Thread Allen Fisher
I just tried on a bunch of TiBooks scattered around the office, and they all installed fine... One of our marketing gurus uses a TiBook of this vintage (800MHz) and he's had no problems installing or running the program. Do other hybrid disks work? On 21 Nov 2004, at 11:57 PM, Brian

Re: [Finale] Internal Playback/Instruments

2004-11-22 Thread Javier Ruiz
This is a known problem. At least you have to click stop, and playback from the beginning for a couple of measures. Then you can jump to the bar you are interested in. P.S. I have roughly the same system but with a PowerMac G4. Javito. FinMac 2004c.r1, System 10.3.6, PowerBook G4, using

Re: [Finale] Hyphen problem

2004-11-22 Thread Linda Worsley
Ryan Beard writes: I'm having a heck of a time getting rid of an errant hyphen in lyrics. ... Harold Owen wries This problem appears when you type in a word with more than one syllable and abandon it before the whole word is entered. When this happens, I open edit lyrics and find the hyphen

[Finale] OT: Trying to find some music (Boccherini)

2004-11-22 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Sorry about this off-topic post once again, but this list has helped me on similar quests in the past. I am having a pretty hard time trying to find an edition of a set of string quintets (2Vl, Vla, 2 Vlc) by Luigi Boccherini. I am looking for Work Numbers (after the Gerard catalogue) 340-345,

Re: [Finale] Request for help with handbell chart of bells

2004-11-22 Thread Godofredo Romero
For whatever it's worth, there is an extense take on writing music for bells in Cecil Forsyth's book on orchestration, published by The Macmillan Company in NY; I'm checking the second edition, which I own, and I think it answers many of the questions one my have on the subject. ding-ding-dong

Re: [Finale] FW: EPS-WinXP

2004-11-22 Thread Kurt Gnos
I don't understand all the people who don't think they need Finale's EPS output. 1. First of all, it's freely scalable, without quality loss. You find out that your TIFF has not the right size. If you had used an EPS that wouldn't be a problem. half size? double size? 800%? 2. It's smaller

Re: [Finale] FW: EPS-WinXP

2004-11-22 Thread Christopher Smith
On Monday, November 22, 2004, at 03:20 PM, Kurt Gnos wrote: I don't understand all the people who don't think they need Finale's EPS output. Well, to be fair, you and I need it; maybe they don't because they only print sheet music directly from inside Finale. I don't need guitar fretboards,

Re: [Finale] Hyphen problem

2004-11-22 Thread Mark D Lew
On Nov 21, 2004, at 9:09 PM, Ryan Beard wrote: I'm having a heck of a time getting rid of an errant hyphen in lyrics. I can re-type the syllables into the score, but the hyphen just seems to move around at will. I've tried going into the EDIT LYRICS dialogue, but as luck would have it, this

Re: [Finale] Just suppose,,,

2004-11-22 Thread Mark D Lew
On Nov 21, 2004, at 12:46 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote: So you are allowed to make changes to copyrighted material without the permission from the copyright holder? If you have a legally owned copy of the original, and your altered copy is for personal use only and neither publicly displayed nor

[Finale] Parts Extraction Methodology

2004-11-22 Thread A-NO-NE Music
I have been trying to search MailMan2 dB but I am getting too many hits on this subject. Please forgive me if this subject was covered before. My long time gripe: Finale offers 3 ways of creating parts, but none of which is convenient as dead MOTU Mosaic was. Finale encourages to create

Re: [Finale] Parts Extraction Methodology

2004-11-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:26 PM 11/22/2004, A-NO-NE Music wrote: as dead MOTU Mosaic was. Finale encourages to create separate extracted part files for best results, but it does not offer dynamic file link for future editing. My first question is that if there is a feature I am missing here. No, you are not missing

Re: [Finale] Parts Extraction Methodology

2004-11-22 Thread laloba2
Hello Hiro, I have a one measure blank template that I use for each new score/cue/composition that I do parts for. I use the clip file feature to bring the score's form into the first part which will become my score/cue/composition template for that particular song. I can then add anything

Re: [Finale] Parts Extraction Methodology

2004-11-22 Thread Johannes Gebauer
I agree that linked parts and score files would be desirable. However, since we don't have this feature (and I doubt that we will see this before Finale2k8), here is what I do: Part Extraction is the very last thing I do. Before I do this, I duplicate my score file, and prepare the duplicate

[Finale] Re: Finale 2005 CD Doesn't work in Mac Titanium G4 Powerbooks!!!

2004-11-22 Thread Brian Williams
Allen Fisher wrote: I just tried on a bunch of TiBooks scattered around the office, and they all installed fine... One of our marketing gurus uses a TiBook of this vintage (800MHz) and he's had no problems installing or running the program. Do other hybrid disks work? As far as I know,

Re: [Finale] Parts Extraction Methodology

2004-11-22 Thread Owain Sutton
The only way I ever work is to get my score 100% correct in all ways, from basic layout to nitty-gritty proofreading to final tweaking. Only when it's in a state I'd be happy to make it public do I extract parts. Each one individually needs a lot of subsequent tweaking, but in the whole

Re: [Finale] Parts Extraction Methodology

2004-11-22 Thread Giz Bowe
At 05:43 PM 11/22/04, you wrote: Personally, I create extracted parts files, and then I go through each part to neaten things up, make sure page turns are in the right place, etc. When I need to correct a mistake, I change it both in the source score and in the part. If I have to make