[Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
For whatever reason, I am experiencing a dearth, if not total lack of Finale postings. Did something occur of which I'm not aware, e.g., a nuclear winter, or hopefully, a slightly less severe phenomenon? Dean ___ Finale mailing list

RE: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Williams, Jim
Nobody's been mad at anyone else for the past few days. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dean M. Estabrook Sent: Tue 24-Jan-06 12:44 To: Finale@shsu.edu Subject: [Finale] Traffic For whatever reason, I am experiencing a dearth, if not total lack of Finale

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Don Hart
I think it was Raymond's joke. You were the first to blink. DH on 1/24/06 11:44 AM, Dean M. Estabrook at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For whatever reason, I am experiencing a dearth, if not total lack of Finale postings. Did something occur of which I'm not aware, e.g., a nuclear winter, or

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Now that is funny! Williams, Jim wrote: Nobody's been mad at anyone else for the past few days. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dean M. Estabrook Sent: Tue 24-Jan-06 12:44 To: Finale@shsu.edu Subject: [Finale] Traffic For whatever reason, I am

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread richard.bartkus
Everybody went to Sibelius and forgot to tell you grin Actually, a friend of mine suggested that I take another look at Sibelius v4. I don't know that I want to start that thread all over again, but Richard ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Font face/size for Triplets MM rests?

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jan 22, 2006, at 4:26 PM, Éric Dussault wrote: I'm not sure I remember ever seeing a Sans Serif font for tuplet in pre-computerized music publications, but I may be wrong. You often see it in contemporary music. See, e.g., Xenakis: Eonta (Boosey and Hawkes No. 799) Andrew Stiller On

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Christopher Smith
BHAA! Yes, it was not unlike that stunned silence that follows a really bad joke. 8-) But that wasn't a BAD joke, not at all! Christopher On Jan 24, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Don Hart wrote: I think it was Raymond's joke. You were the first to blink. DH on 1/24/06 11:44 AM, Dean M. Estabrook

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Fisher, Allen
You wanna fight? g On 1/24/06 12:10 PM, Williams, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] said this: Nobody's been mad at anyone else for the past few days. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dean M. Estabrook Sent: Tue 24-Jan-06 12:44 To: Finale@shsu.edu Subject: [Finale] Traffic For whatever

[Finale] Oboe Joke

2006-01-24 Thread keith helgesen
I told the oboe joke – (received from Finale earlier this week) to my concert band. Absolute deadpan _expression_, told as tho reporting a real occurrence. Shock horror on faces- (especially my oboe player’s) till- punchline- “Use muted trumpet” caused such hilarity I had to call an

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Don Hart
Of course, when I saw Musical Emergency I was licking my chops, and then got a joke! It' not like the nfc and afc championships were worth a darn that day. But I was amused. Don on 1/24/06 12:39 PM, Christopher Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BHAA! Yes, it was not unlike that stunned

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Eric Dannewitz
No no, you need to go back to the Finale Labs and conjure up some new Finale wonders Fisher, Allen wrote: You wanna fight? g ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Font face/size for Triplets MM rests?

2006-01-24 Thread Owain Sutton
Andrew Stiller wrote: On Jan 23, 2006, at 12:37 PM, bill wrote: Composers can be total idiots. Don't rely on their example as they have other issues on their mind besides notation. Bill Hello? Boosey and Hawkes? Xenakis did not choose this font. Ferneyhough uses sans serif fonts

Re: [Finale] Oboe Joke

2006-01-24 Thread Phil Daley
At 1/24/2006 03:06 PM, keith helgesen wrote: More instrument specific humour please- or even a source thereof! http://www.mit.edu/people/jcb/jokes/ My personal favorite is: What does a drummer get on his SAT? Drool . . . Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Raymond Horton
Williams, Jim wrote: Nobody's been mad at anyone else for the past few days. If you'd just read the manual you wouldn't have to say that. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Ah ... story of my life. Dean On Jan 24, 2006, at 10:12 AM, Don Hart wrote: I think it was Raymond's joke. You were the first to blink. DH on 1/24/06 11:44 AM, Dean M. Estabrook at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For whatever reason, I am experiencing a dearth, if not total lack of Finale

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Well, I'm grateful that I wasn't yelling into an empty forest, and that life goes on, even if it's sans issues. I'm sure a major conflagration will out in due time. Dean On Jan 24, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Don Hart wrote: Of course, when I saw Musical Emergency I was licking my chops, and then

RE: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Williams, Jim
Allen, We euphonium players are lovers, not fighters. Jim From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Eric Dannewitz Sent: Tue 24-Jan-06 15:10 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] Traffic Fisher, Allen wrote: You wanna fight? g

Re: [Finale] FinMac2006c bug

2006-01-24 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I don't see this running 10.4.4, but I do get strange things every now and then. Your new articulation font sometimes doesn't show up after placing it upon a note. And sometimes it does. Perhaps there is some sort of screen draw thing happening? If I have finale redraw the screen, the font

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:06 PM 1/24/06 -0800, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Well, I'm grateful that I wasn't yelling into an empty forest, and that life goes on, even if it's sans issues. I'm sure a major conflagration will out in due time. This won't start one, but I do have a general question. :) I've almost

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jan 24, 2006, at 4:42 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: I've almost never been asked for Finale files, but tend to provide them anyway, just so there's a record in more than one place. But last week, I was asked for the files by a composer who wanted to tweak the results. I thought nothing

Re: [Finale] Font face/size for Triplets MM rests?

2006-01-24 Thread Jim Gardner
He did for a short while. Mostly he uses what looks like Times italic. Jim Ferneyhough uses sans serif fonts for tuplets in his own (Finale-based) scores. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale --

Re: [Finale] Oboe Joke

2006-01-24 Thread Lon Price
A tenor sax player dies and finds himself in Hell. He meets Satan, who tells him to report to the equipment room to pick out a horn. The tenor player spends a few hundred years (he's got eternity, right?) picking out the perfect Selmer Mark VI tenor, the perfect mouthpiece and reed.

RE: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Williams, Jim
;-) ;-) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Raymond Horton Sent: Tue 24-Jan-06 16:00 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] Traffic Williams, Jim wrote: Nobody's been mad at anyone else for the past few days. If you'd just read the manual you wouldn't

Re: [Finale] Oboe Joke

2006-01-24 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
In a message dated 24/01/2006 22:36:00 GMT Standard Time,somebody writes: I told the oboe joke – (received from Finale earlier this week) to my concert band.Absolute deadpan _expression_, told as tho reporting a real occurrence. I did the same thing to a group of oboe players last

Re: [Finale] Font face/size for Triplets MM rests?

2006-01-24 Thread Owain Sutton
Fair enough, on checking a few scores, he's inconsistent. But I stand by the observation that *some* of his scores, explicitly identified as being his own, use sans serif fonts. Jim Gardner wrote: He did for a short while. Mostly he uses what looks like Times italic. Jim Ferneyhough

Re Finale file distribution [was Re: [Finale] Traffic]

2006-01-24 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: This won't start one, but I do have a general question. :) I've almost never been asked for Finale files, but tend to provide them anyway, just so there's a record in more than one place. ...snippage... What do folks normally do? Because I do exclusively new

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Richard Yates
For whatever reason, I am experiencing a dearth, if not total lack of Finale postings. Nobody's been mad at anyone else for the past few days. Well, I am (if that's what it takes to have someone respond to my twice posted question): In FinWin2006 has the staff percentage bug been fixed? This

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Raymond Horton
Can't reproduce that problem in FinWin 2006c. RBH Richard Yates wrote: In FinWin2006 has the staff percentage bug been fixed? This occurs when a staff is reduced from 100%. When expressions are dragged they do not stay with the cursor but lag behind in proportion to the amount of reduction.

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Richard Yates
Thank you, Raymond. Can't reproduce that problem in FinWin 2006c. RBH Richard Yates wrote: In FinWin2006 has the staff percentage bug been fixed? This occurs when a staff is reduced from 100%. When expressions are dragged they do not stay with the cursor but lag behind in proportion to

RE: [Finale] Oboe Joke

2006-01-24 Thread keith helgesen
It seems this conductor rang the local hospital and told the emergency room that his oboe player, who habitually sucked on her reed, had sucked too hard, swallowed it and was choking on it. What should he do? Response came;- “use a muted trumpet” Cheers K Keith Helgesen.

Re: [Finale] Oboe Joke

2006-01-24 Thread James Sodke
Keith My high school band director told me that joke too, over 30 years ago! Everything old is new again... Jim On 1/24/06, keith helgesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I told the oboe joke – (received from Finale earlier this week) to my concert band. Absolute deadpan expression, told as tho

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: For whatever reason, I am experiencing a dearth, if not total lack of Finale postings. Did something occur of which I'm not aware, e.g., a nuclear winter, or hopefully, a slightly less severe phenomenon? I've been behind on reading this

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jan 24, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Williams, Jim wrote: We euphonium players are lovers, not fighters. In observance of the joke thread, this reminds me of a somewhat off-color joke that was told to me several years ago when I was (briefly) dating a horn player. She was a great kisser ... if

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jan 24, 2006, at 1:42 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: What do folks normally do? Because I do exclusively new music, it's not like I'm a jealous guardian of the original files. I feel like they belong with the composer. On the other hand, I'm not enthused about offering ongoing help in

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Simon Troup
In observance of the joke thread, this reminds me of a somewhat off-color joke that was told to me several years ago when I was (briefly) dating a horn player. She was a great kisser ... if only she didn't keep trying to put her fist up my ass. Took me a while to realise this was a joke, I

Re: [Finale] Traffic

2006-01-24 Thread Karen
Hi Dennis, I don't let my original files go to anyone. Not because I don't want to let any of my secrets out (I'm happy to help when I can if I have the time) but because ultimately I'm responsible for the end product. There's just too much that can go wrong when the original files are