Re: [Finale] Page size

2005-01-22 Thread Jón Kristinn Cortez
The pagesizes.txt file gives A4 = 20.99c, 29.69c; 1.27c, 1.27c, 2c, 1.27c, 1.9c What are the other values after the ; ? (Correct values in cm are, according to my own (Excel) calculations: 21.02 x 29.73) Dennis Page margins in cm? ; top, bottom, left, right,- and that leaves

[Finale] Re: Finale Digest, Vol 18, Issue 28

2005-01-22 Thread RegoR
What would be the best way to do two time signatures in the same staff? Say you had a triple meter that could be triple-duple or triple-triple (3/4 or 9/8), Try this... create TWO empty measures at the beginning of the piece, filing them in with actual rests and HIDE the rests... In the

Re: [Finale] Chord Tool Question

2005-01-22 Thread John Bell
On 22 Jan 2005, at 04:04, A-NO-NE Music wrote: John Bell / 05.1.22 / 08:25 PM wrote: With every version of MacFin I have used, including 2005a, the 4-triangle box appears alongside whatever staff you click on in the Chord Tool, whether in Midi or Manual or any other mode, and whether in Page or

Re: [Finale] Multiple Time Sigs

2005-01-22 Thread Jari Williamsson
Horace Brock wrote: What would be the best way to do two time signatures in the same staff? Say you had a triple meter that could be triple-duple or triple-triple (3/4 or 9/8), what would be the best way to put the two side by side at the beginning of the piece? The source has the second sig in

Re: [Finale] Finale 2003a sudden problem

2005-01-22 Thread Jari Williamsson
JD wrote: This evening, when trying to launch Finale 2003a and get back to work, I encountered a dialog box stating: The MiBAC Jazz Rhythm Section Generator plug-in is missing the chordmap.txt file...etc. It's telling me to place this file in the Component Files folder etc., but it's already

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-22 Thread Jari Williamsson
Darcy James Argue wrote: I have no idea if that's a workable solution, but I would like Coda to at least *try* it. Since the problem with the corrupted pointers is proving elusive, maybe it's time to address the root of the problem -- shared temp files. If the same temp files weren't shared

Re: [Finale] Multiple Time Sigs

2005-01-22 Thread dhbailey
Horace Brock wrote: What would be the best way to do two time signatures in the same staff? Say you had a triple meter that could be triple-duple or triple-triple (3/4 or 9/8), what would be the best way to put the two side by side at the beginning of the piece? The source has the second sig in

Re: [Finale] Garritan Jazz Band Library Announced

2005-01-22 Thread dhbailey
Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Chuck, I think the official announcement at NAMM means sooner, rather than later. We can always hope. [snip] The official announcement at NAMM was because there is no other industry-wide event until the middle of the summer, and I wouldn't take it as an indication

Re: [Finale] Multiple Time Sigs

2005-01-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:37 AM 01/22/2005, dhbailey wrote: I would only add that you can configure the default appearance of triplets before you begin to enter the notes and set things so that no bracket and no number shows up, to make life easier. Or, after inserting your double time sig, you can then define the

Re: [Finale] EPS and fonts

2005-01-22 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 07:07 AM 1/22/05 +0100, d. collins wrote: By the way, I think Finale recommends the PS fonts for laser printers, and the TT version for inkjet printers. Does anyone know why? Does anyone follow this recommendation? I use PS fonts for everything (and can avoid Windows-specific fonts) because

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
Darcy James Argue wrote: I have no idea if that's a workable solution, but I would like Coda to at least *try* it. Since the problem with the corrupted pointers is proving elusive, maybe it's time to address the root of the problem -- shared temp files. If the same temp files weren't shared

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 22 Jan 2005, at 7:07 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: (Of course, they could also just fix the problem where the window handle/ID starts to map to the wrong Enigma Doc ID, but apparently that's easier said than done.) But that's _exactly_ what they have to do!!! Moving the

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
- Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 22 Jan 2005, at 9:13 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: I have no idea if that's a workable solution, but I would like Coda to at least *try* it. Since the problem with the corrupted pointers is proving elusive, maybe it's time

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-22 Thread Jari Williamsson
David W. Fenton wrote: But it *has* happened to *me* on Windows -- I've never lost data, but as I've said many times, I've seen the wrong data displayed for the window titles (i.e., document names). And I also saw this occasionally in FinWin2003, but I believe it was fixed in FinWin2004. Or are

Re: [Finale] Garritan Jazz Band Library Announced

2005-01-22 Thread Raymond Horton
There are definitely other improvements GPO can use. More mutes for the brass, more extended ranges for many of the instruments, improved section string sounds. I'm sure the ranges (the bass clarinet not having a low concert Bb was mentioned) depend mostly on the players and instruments that

Re: [Finale] PDF disaster

2005-01-22 Thread Jari Williamsson
Daniel Wolf wrote: What PS Language Level have you set? Have you also set it to Portability? It's set for Level 2 and optimized for portability. Try with another PS language level - for example test level 1. I've noticed in other apps that when the PDF export/distiller process gives error about

Re: [Finale] Multiple Time Sigs

2005-01-22 Thread Don Hart
Thanks, Scott - that's helpful to know. When I first tried it I didn't like how close the two signatures were to each other (looked like a time sig. of 93/84), but I enlarged the font size of the space to make it look right. Gardner Read refers to this and similar situations as combined meters

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-22 Thread David W. Fenton
On 21 Jan 2005 at 18:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21 Jan 2005 at 15:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 05.1.21 / 00:52 PM wrote: [] But I think that if the problem was solely due to an address bug, it would happen more often. And problems with addressing is

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-22 Thread David W. Fenton
On 21 Jan 2005 at 23:00, A-NO-NE Music wrote: David W. Fenton / 05.1.21 / 06:10 PM wrote: The programmers of OS X, you mean -- Finale knows nothing about virtual memory, which is entirely handled by the operating system's virtual memory subsystem. Well, Finale might or might not, we won't

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-22 Thread David W. Fenton
On 22 Jan 2005 at 16:18, Jari Williamsson wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: But it *has* happened to *me* on Windows -- I've never lost data, but as I've said many times, I've seen the wrong data displayed for the window titles (i.e., document names). And I also saw this occasionally in

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-22 Thread laloba2
On 21 Jan 2005 at 18:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21 Jan 2005 at 15:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 05.1.21 / 00:52 PM wrote: [] But I think that if the problem was solely due to an address bug, it would happen more often. And problems with addressing is

Re: [Finale] Page size

2005-01-22 Thread Allen Fisher
From the Appendix of the user manual: [Page Sizes] This section contains the page size name, Width and Height (followed by a semicolon), Top Margin, Bottom Margin, Left Margin, Right Margin, and a Left Margin for single-instrument documents. The Top and Bottom margins are assumed to be negative;

[Finale] non standard key sigs list problems

2005-01-22 Thread Ryan Beard
Hey, I'm trying to use a non standard key signature. A client wrote a piece in what is essentiall c harmonic minor. He wants Eb and Ab in the signature and a natural sign for the B. It can be displayed in the traditional order, though (B-E-A). I've spent an hour trying to make things work, but

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-22 Thread A-NO-NE Music
David W. Fenton / 05.1.22 / 07:37 PM wrote: Mac users are probably confused about virtual memory because of the way it was bolted onto Mac OS as an extension that often conflicted with applications. You're now living in a completely different world, one where the apps don't know anything

Re: [Finale] Chord Tool Question

2005-01-22 Thread A-NO-NE Music
John Bell / 05.1.22 / 05:21 AM wrote: Click either on a note or an empty space on the staff Sorry, but I am still having trouble with this. I was working in Scroll view. Chord Tool is in Manual mode. If I click on the note, I get Chord Dialog, while I just want to get the Triangle Box down

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-22 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jan 20, 2005, at 7:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my machine, I got to the paging stage with no other files open (pictures, PDF's etc.) in the other applicationsjust files open in Finale. Add PDF's pics etc in and I'll bet you are getting low on free memory. Additionally, if there

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-22 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jan 21, 2005, at 1:39 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: You might want to consider rebooting OSX time to time because the number of swapfile will not go away less than 4 or 5 until you reboot. OSX needs about 1GB free space for vm stack, which can be eaten up quickly when swapfile() accumulates 6-7 of