[Finale] Minimum measure width (was: partial measures)

2005-07-26 Thread Michael Cook
I just leave the minimum measure width at zero: works fine. I think it's set that way anyway in recent versions of the default file. You never actually get zero-width measures, because Finale always makes space for the rests. Michael Cook On 26 Jul 2005, at 22:45, David W. Fenton wrote: Afte

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

2005-07-26 Thread A-NO-NE Music
David W. Fenton / 2005/07/26 / 02:18 PM wrote: >I see this a lot here on the list. Is there any explanation anywhere >of why this is the case? Is it caused by improperly designed >applications, or some problem in the way the OS handles file access >requests from applications? > >It just defies

[Finale] arriving Friday

2005-07-26 Thread Jim Mays
MakeMusic just emailed to tell me that my Finale 2006 upgrade will arrive Friday. Standing by... Jim Mays Maine ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] Font = data or program [was: notation program comparison]

2005-07-26 Thread Ken Moore
Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well, even though it isn't an executable program (which is the >definition that, of course, first springs to mind when the word >"program" is used), a font is still "programmed" in terms of >determining the font characters' relationships to the baseline,

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Jul 2005 at 17:25, dhbailey wrote: > Ken Durling wrote: > > At 01:45 PM 7/26/2005, you wrote: > > > >> > Well, the default minimum measure width is 1 inch, which is > >> > definitely too wide for the pickup measures. I always set it to > >> > .5 inches, so that when you respace your music,

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread Ken Durling
OK, got it, thanks. it's in Options>Document Settings>Music Spacing Options. Lots of other interesting settings to explore here, too. Ken At 02:12 PM 7/26/2005, you wrote: On 26 Jul 2005 at 13:57, Ken Durling wrote: > At 01:45 PM 7/26/2005, you wrote: > > > > Well, the default minimum m

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread dhbailey
Ken Durling wrote: At 01:45 PM 7/26/2005, you wrote: > Well, the default minimum measure width is 1 inch, which is > definitely too wide for the pickup measures. I always set it to .5 > inches, so that when you respace your music, it should get suitably > narrower. Where is this setting? I

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Jul 2005 at 13:57, Ken Durling wrote: > At 01:45 PM 7/26/2005, you wrote: > > > > Well, the default minimum measure width is 1 inch, which is > > > definitely too wide for the pickup measures. I always set it to .5 > > > inches, so that when you respace your music, it should get > > > suit

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread Ken Durling
At 01:45 PM 7/26/2005, you wrote: > Well, the default minimum measure width is 1 inch, which is > definitely too wide for the pickup measures. I always set it to .5 > inches, so that when you respace your music, it should get suitably > narrower. Where is this setting? I'm not finding it in

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Jul 2005 at 16:29, David W. Fenton wrote: > On 26 Jul 2005 at 13:24, Ken Durling wrote: > > > OK, got it, thanks. Then drag the measure handles to resize. Or > > is there an automation for that? > > Well, the default minimum measure width is 1 inch, which is > definitely too wide for

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread Ken Durling
Ah, ok. Thanks much. Ken At 01:29 PM 7/26/2005, you wrote: On 26 Jul 2005 at 13:24, Ken Durling wrote: > OK, got it, thanks. Then drag the measure handles to resize. Or is > there an automation for that? Well, the default minimum measure width is 1 inch, which is definitely too wide for

Re: [Finale] Copy Everything (was Jari's review of Fin 2006)

2005-07-26 Thread Robert Patterson
David Fenton: > And the problem to me seems to not be replacing COPY EVERYTHING with > RESET TO DEFAULTS (if you use the keyboard shortcut to pop the dialog > before copying, then you won't have any extra steps), but the > apparent loss of state. You lose state, *and* you are required to acces

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Jul 2005 at 13:24, Ken Durling wrote: > OK, got it, thanks. Then drag the measure handles to resize. Or is > there an automation for that? Well, the default minimum measure width is 1 inch, which is definitely too wide for the pickup measures. I always set it to .5 inches, so that whe

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread Ken Durling
OK, got it, thanks. Then drag the measure handles to resize. Or is there an automation for that? Ken ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread Michael Cook
In Finale 2006 there's a "Mid Measure Repeat" plug-in which does the job automatically. Michael Cook On 26 Jul 2005, at 21:53, David W. Fenton wrote: On 26 Jul 2005 at 12:38, Ken Durling wrote: Another newbie question: How do you create partial measures with repeats, like on repeats to a

[Finale] Re: partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Jul 2005 at 12:38, Ken Durling wrote: > Another newbie question: How do you create partial measures with > repeats, like on repeats to a pick up such as are typical in Menuet & > Trios? I'm not finding it in the tutorial or user's manual. In some > cases I would simply want to place an e

Re: [Finale] partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:38 PM 07/26/2005, Ken Durling wrote: >Another newbie question: How do you create partial measures with repeats, >like on repeats to a pick up such as are typical in Menuet & Trios? In Finale, you actually create *two* bars to accomplish this. The first bar has beats one and two of the mea

Re: [Finale] partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread Ken Durling
Sorry, I should add that I'm still using Fin2K2. Ken At 12:38 PM 7/26/2005, you wrote: Hi all - Another newbie question: How do you create partial measures with repeats, like on repeats to a pick up such as are typical in Menuet & Trios? I'm not finding it in the tutorial or user's manua

RE: [Finale] Copy Everything (was Jari's review of Fin 2006)

2005-07-26 Thread Fiskum, Steve
Title: RE: [Finale] Copy Everything (was Jari's review of Fin 2006) Hello again Robert, I think I do fully understand how "backwards" this decision is but I was trying to make a point about the basic logical aspects of this decision and not some of the more in-depth issues because frankly

[Finale] partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread Ken Durling
Hi all - Another newbie question: How do you create partial measures with repeats, like on repeats to a pick up such as are typical in Menuet & Trios? I'm not finding it in the tutorial or user's manual. In some cases I would simply want to place an end repeat between say the 2nd and 3rd be

Re: [Finale] Copy Everything (was Jari's review of Fin 2006)

2005-07-26 Thread Michael Cook
Yes, when you hit "Reset to Default", you loose the saved state. I can't see any way to toggle, as you can in Finale 2005, between a certain set of items to copy and the "copy everything" state. On 26 Jul 2005, at 20:20, David W. Fenton wrote: On 26 Jul 2005 at 18:10, Michael Cook wrote: O

RE: [Finale] Copy Everything (was Jari's review of Fin 2006)

2005-07-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Jul 2005 at 13:21, Fiskum, Steve wrote: > I think it would be great if that is what "Reset to Defaults" means. I > thought it meant that you could setup a default copy action somewhere > and that you could click the "Reset To Defaults" button that to get > back to that desired way of copying

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

2005-07-26 Thread Simon Troup
> > And you should be repairing permissions regularly in OS X, especially > > when you have permissions problems (like with the OS 9 files). > > I see this a lot here on the list. Is there any explanation anywhere > of why this is the case? Is it caused by improperly designed > applications, or

Re: [Finale] Copy Everything (was Jari's review of Fin 2006)

2005-07-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Jul 2005 at 18:10, Michael Cook wrote: > On 26 Jul 2005, at 16:32, Fiskum, Steve wrote: > > What's even more frustrating is that they take the basic > > functionality away from just selecting "Copy Everything" and do not > > include something remotely similar in this new and improved dialog

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

2005-07-26 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Jul 2005 at 11:25, Darcy James Argue wrote: > And you should be repairing permissions regularly in OS X, especially > when you have permissions problems (like with the OS 9 files). I see this a lot here on the list. Is there any explanation anywhere of why this is the case? Is it caused by

RE: [Finale] Copy Everything (was Jari's review of Fin 2006)

2005-07-26 Thread Fiskum, Steve
Title: RE: [Finale] Copy Everything (was Jari's review of Fin 2006) Hello Michael, I think it would be great if that is what "Reset to Defaults" means. I thought it meant that you could setup a default copy action somewhere and that you could click the "Reset To Defaults" button that to get

[Finale] OT - rehearsal veneus UK

2005-07-26 Thread Gary Griffiths
Does anyone on here know any good rehearsal venues in or near Nottingham, UK? I need space for a choir of 200, a piano, disabled access preferably, and parking. In other areas we have used churches and schools, but as we are based in Leeds, we don't know the Nottingham area very well. Many thanks

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

2005-07-26 Thread Simon Troup
> > You should not be manually changing permissions in OS X. > > If I did not do so, I would be totally unable to edit any file or > folder ported from System 9, all of which come into OSX with > permissions that lock me out. It has been a royal pain in the ass > changing all those permissions

Re: [Finale] Copy Everything (was Jari's review of Fin 2006)

2005-07-26 Thread Robert Patterson
Steve Fiskum: >I just do not see the benefit of removing it. Is it because it > seems redundant? You would have to address that question to MM. (I hope you will, and if they provide an answer please share it.) They removed it consciously, purposefully, and stubbornly, but what their reasoning

Re: [Finale] Copy Everything (was Jari's review of Fin 2006)

2005-07-26 Thread Michael Cook
On 26 Jul 2005, at 16:32, Fiskum, Steve wrote: What's even more frustrating is that they take the basic functionality away from just selecting "Copy Everything" and do not include something remotely similar in this new and improved dialog box! What gives! They obviously thought that users would

[Finale] Re: chord playback problems

2005-07-26 Thread Ryan Beard
Darcy wrote: >[Also, I hate to ask "why would you want to do that," but I'm not sure >why anyone would want chords to play back in Finale. Chord >playback in Finale is incredibly clunky because Finale makes no >attempt to account for voice-leading. If you want "chord" playback, >you should creat

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

2005-07-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 26 Jul 2005, at 11:13 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: On Jul 26, 2005, at 10:44 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: You should not be manually changing permissions in OS X. If I did not do so, I would be totally unable to edit any file or folder ported from System 9, all of which come into OSX with

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

2005-07-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jul 26, 2005, at 10:44 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: You should not be manually changing permissions in OS X. If I did not do so, I would be totally unable to edit any file or folder ported from System 9, all of which come into OSX with permissions that lock me out. It has been a royal p

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

2005-07-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 26 Jul 2005, at 10:35 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: I downloaded Flash Player 7, necessary to view some web content, but when I go to install it, I keep getting told I don't have the necessary permissions. I tried changing the permissions on everything I could think of, That's a bad idea. Y

[Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

2005-07-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
I downloaded Flash Player 7, necessary to view some web content, but when I go to install it, I keep getting told I don't have the necessary permissions. I tried changing the permissions on everything I could think of, but no luck. Any advice? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.

RE: [Finale] Copy Everything (was Jari's review of Fin 2006)

2005-07-26 Thread Fiskum, Steve
Title: RE: [Finale] Copy Everything (was Jari's review of Fin 2006) Hello Robert, I am with you on this one. I think it is a bad idea to remove "Copy Everything." Since before Jari's review I have been very conscious on how much I use this feature and it is so ingrained in my workflow it is

Re: [Finale] Installing fonts?

2005-07-26 Thread Godofredo Romero
have you tried to e-mail yourself the fonts archives, downloading them using the second computer and then dragging the font file to its corresponding place in the finale folders of the second computer? godofredo Allen Fisher wrote: The finale 2003 installer installs fonts that are incompati

Re: [Finale] Another GPO/Finale HP Question

2005-07-26 Thread dhbailey
A-NO-NE Music wrote: David W. Fenton / 2005/07/25 / 09:12 PM wrote: It shows, I guess, that people intereted in gamba (and there are thousands in the world) are not cross-interested in synthesized music sounds. Perhaps it's because no one is writing new music for gamba (except me, of course

Re: [Finale] Another GPO/Finale HP Question

2005-07-26 Thread dhbailey
Tyler Turner wrote: [snip]> Regarding using different sound sources simultaneously, this can not be done currently between VST devices and MIDI Setup Output devices. You have to go with one or the other. You can choose any combination of VST devices - meaning you could mix Finale GPO with the f

Re: [Finale] Another GPO/Finale HP Question

2005-07-26 Thread dhbailey
A-NO-NE Music wrote: dhbailey / 2005/07/25 / 06:45 PM wrote: Read the finale web-site -- there's a list of NI sample sets which are compatible with Finale2006's integrated VST (Native Instruments only, apparently) sample player. I think you are misunderstanding. You must pay extra to use