Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
A quick GOOGLE of Nextstep can yield all the answers you want. Here are some examples: http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/ and especially this one http://lowendmac.com/orchard/05/0705.html It's down around the NeXTstep Interface for people who don't want to read the whole thing

Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Well, it would help if you READ things all the way. Snarking is good too ;-) David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Mar 2006 at 17:35, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Yeah, well, the world according to Fenton suggests otherwise... I asked questions in my last post in reply to your message. You could

Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Mar 2006 at 17:35, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > Yeah, well, the world according to Fenton suggests otherwise... I asked questions in my last post in reply to your message. You could choose to answer them. Or, you could just contribute some more snark. That's a really helpful contribution t

Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Mar 2006 at 17:15, Stephen Peters wrote: > Eric Dannewitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Er, no. I believe NeXTStep OS, which Mac OS X is based upon, had a > > dock way back in 1992. Maybe earlier. > > Earlier. The dock was part of the first release of NeXTSTEP in 1989. > > http://en.w

Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Yeah, well, the world according to Fenton suggests otherwise... Stephen Peters wrote: Eric Dannewitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Er, no. I believe NeXTStep OS, which Mac OS X is based upon, had a dock way back in 1992. Maybe earlier. Earlier. The dock was part of the first rele

Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-08 Thread Stephen Peters
Eric Dannewitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Er, no. I believe NeXTStep OS, which Mac OS X is based upon, had a > dock way back in 1992. Maybe earlier. Earlier. The dock was part of the first release of NeXTSTEP in 1989. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP -- Stephen L. Peters

Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Mar 2006 at 11:54, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > Er, no. I believe NeXTStep OS, which Mac OS X is based upon, had a > dock way back in 1992. Maybe earlier. > > http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/oshistory/7.html I don't see your basis for that claim from skimming the article. The only thing that lo

Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Er, no. I believe NeXTStep OS, which Mac OS X is based upon, had a dock way back in 1992. Maybe earlier. http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/oshistory/7.html There are a lot of things to like about the Dock, and Task bar. I'd like to see some of the things Apple places in the upper right, like Air

Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-08 Thread Phil Daley
At 3/8/2006 02:46 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: > >On Mar 8, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Phil Daley wrote: > >> At 3/8/2006 12:57 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: >> >> >How does Mac handle that on multiple screens? Does it stretch the menu >> >across them both? Or do you have to move back to the main screen

Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-08 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 8, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Phil Daley wrote: At 3/8/2006 12:57 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: >How does Mac handle that on multiple screens? Does it stretch the menu >across them both? Or do you have to move back to the main screen when >accessing the menu for an app you're using on a second

Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Mar 2006 at 11:42, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > Come to think of this, is it not weird IE/Win doesn't do this? It's > like Mac apps. You can't have child windows within parent one, like > you do in Finale and Office. Windows offers the MDI (multiple document interface), what you'd described in

Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 7 Mar 2006 at 15:39, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > > At 11:31 AM 3/7/06 -0800, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > > > >> Windows developers "sometimes afflict"? Thanks for the laugh. > >> Really > > > > Yeah, I know, I know. > > > > Seriously, though, there's one thing I

Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-08 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 08 Mar 2006, at 12:57 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: How does Mac handle that on multiple screens? Does it stretch the menu across them both? No. But in the "Displays" preference pane, you can drag the menubar onto whichever display you want (i.e., make any display the "main" display,

Re: [Finale] Re: "Open With" Issues 2.0

2006-03-08 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hmm.You're right -- "Change All" *doesn't* work! My apologies!Multiple item info does work, though -- selecting all the Finale files in a folder, choosing "Get Info," and changing the default application for those items *without* clicking "Change All". Very strange.As others have mentioned, you wil

Re: [Finale] 2 monitors (Was OT: PC vs MAC?)

2006-03-08 Thread Randolph Peters
On topic: Finale's glissandi shapes only appear on the main monitor (in 2K5). Any glissandi that should be showing in the second monitor are overlain on the main monitor. Anybody else have a setup with 2 monitor that's seen this? Glissandi aren't that commonplace, but on a score I was doing a few

Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-08 Thread Phil Daley
At 3/8/2006 12:57 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: >How does Mac handle that on multiple screens? Does it stretch the menu >across them both? Or do you have to move back to the main screen when >accessing the menu for an app you're using on a second screen? Or does it >have two menus, or move the

Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-08 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 11:42 AM 3/8/06 -0500, A-NO-NE Music wrote: >Unfortunately, no. Windows app contains windows within an application >instance even though actual process instances are independent (both are >backward each other between Mac and Win), which makes Mac user envy. >Mac OS doesn't have this function b

Re: [Finale] Re: "Open With" Issues 2.0

2006-03-08 Thread A-NO-NE Music
ER @ HOME / 2006/03/08 / 06:52 AM wrote: > Still, the file won't "remember" the "Open With" association after I >close it! As soon as I close it and double click the file icon, FinMac >2006 Demo launches instead of 2005b. This is admittedly a very minor >annoyance, however I guess the Type-A compo

Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-08 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Karen / 2006/03/07 / 08:46 PM wrote: >> The second was that the iPod lost its FireWire connector because >> the PC world was the new target audience. > >Not really a new target audience per se...but it allowed Apple to >sell to a wider audience. In other words, I see this as a smart >busines

[Finale] Mozart "Choral" Symphony

2006-03-08 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
I am hoping that the collective wisdom of the list can help me. When Christopher Hogwood recorded his Complete Mozart Symphonies project for Decca, there was a "choral" symphony included with the boxed album set. This was an early symphony from the Italian opera tours.   For reasons I'm not sure,

Re: [Finale] Re: "Open With" Issues 2.0

2006-03-08 Thread John Bell
Hi EricYes, the Get Info .> Open With > Change All routine doesn't work with Finale and never has. It is particularly galling because if you inadvertently open the wrong version of Finale you can lose all your preferences. You simply have to remember always to open Finale first, then open the docum

[Finale] Re: "Open With" Issues 2.0

2006-03-08 Thread ER @ HOME
Hi all, While I hesitate to perpetuate (hmm...maybe there's a lyric in there...) the thread I started with my "Open With" question, FYI I had already done all the steps everyone has kindly suggested before posting my original question: - Trying "Open With/Other" from within both the Get Info wind

Re: [Finale] Expression marks

2006-03-08 Thread bill
Title: Re: [Finale] Expression marks Jonathan, I agree.  To expand on that, I follow these rules: 1) Things that apply to *all* parts, i.e. stuff that a conducter needs to know (letter "A", tempo markings, accl., rit., rall., etc), should *always* be places above the staff.  They are structura