[Finale] Measure widths ...manually setting them versus letting Finale do it.

2006-05-03 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On the current piece, I decided that I wanted to determine to determine the measure widths. Now I am not so sure that was a good choice.. I gavethe measuresall a uniform width; but I think it makes the layout a bit artificial. So now, whenever I unlock the systems, all the measures seem to

Re: [Finale] Width from the system staff brace on the left and instruments on the right.

2006-05-03 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
They're all optimized and locked. On 5/3/06, dc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kim Patrick Clow écrit:I am increasing the distance between the brace and the music on the right. Staff Tool Staff Edit Group Attributes will do that for each staff, but there has to be a easierway where I can make this a

Re: [Finale] Width from the system staff brace on the left and instruments on the right.

2006-05-03 Thread dhbailey
Kim Patrick Clow wrote: They're all optimized and locked. Then you're stuck doing it 70 times. Or you can leave them locked and unoptimize them, adjust the brace position, then reoptimize the score and things should return to how they are now. At least they have when I've had to do such

Re: [Finale] Measure widths ...manually setting them versus letting Finale do it.

2006-05-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 03.05.2006 Kim Patrick Clow wrote: On the current piece, I decided that I wanted to determine to determine the measure widths. Now I am not so sure that was a good choice.. I gave the measures all a uniform width; but I think it makes the layout a bit artificial. So now, whenever I

Re: [Finale] Adjusting Rests

2006-05-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
If you are looking for a global setting, look at the layer options. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Width from the system staff brace on the left and instruments on the right.

2006-05-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 03.05.2006 dhbailey wrote: Kim Patrick Clow wrote: They're all optimized and locked. Then you're stuck doing it 70 times. Actually, you can use TGTools. There are several indispensible tools for the kind of thing you want to do with optimized scores. This alone is well worth the price

[Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question [lengthy Bailey reply] (cross-posted from OrchestraList)

2006-05-03 Thread Owain Sutton
Off the top of my head, this is the start of my wishlist for improvements and extensions to Finale's capabilities, in no particular order (if any of them can be done in a way I'm not realising, please tell me!): A better implementation of microtones (or even just a simple preset that enables

Re: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question [lengthy Bailey reply] (cross-posted from OrchestraList)

2006-05-03 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
Figured bass. With a decent font. That's not too much to ask for, is it :-) On 5/3/06, Owain Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Off the top of my head, this is the start of my wishlist forimprovements and extensions to Finale's capabilities, in no particular order (if any of them can be done in a

[Finale] Sibelius/Finale question

2006-05-03 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 03 May 2006, at 3:52 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: Duration-linked geometric shapes. The example I've got in mind is where they were used to indicate the compass to be used in an improvised section, with the compass expanding and contracting at various points. Can easily be done with custom

Re: [Finale] Sibelius/Finale question

2006-05-03 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:03 PM 5/3/2006 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 03 May 2006, at 3:52 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: 'Beat-attached' expressions. Already supported (since at least Fin2004, if not earlier... ). Please tell how this is done. I see only note measure, not beat. I can attach to an existing rest,

[Finale] Re: Sibelius/Finale question

2006-05-03 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
I posted this over at O-List during a discussion that moved over here with Owain's post. Some of you may recall the problem of the interwoven tuplets that I described a few weeks ago, and I was wondering if anybody knew how to get this to play back directly from the score, or enter it in an

Re: [Finale] Sibelius/Finale question

2006-05-03 Thread Darcy James Argue
Measure-attached expressions can be attached to a beat. Open the Finale Default File and create a measure-attached mark -- the very first box in the Measure Expression Alignment dialog is the horizontal distance from the alignment point, and the default unit is beats. - Darcy -

Re: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question [lengthy Bailey reply] (cross-posted from OrchestraList)

2006-05-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 03.05.2006 Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Figured bass. With a decent font. Personally I wouldn't care about the font, if it was implemented in a way where it can utilize both fonts and the shape designer. I would prefer it to be a sub-mode of the chord tool, including basic playback

Re: [Finale] Sibelius/Finale question

2006-05-03 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:50 PM 5/3/2006 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote: Measure-attached expressions can be attached to a beat. Open the Finale Default File and create a measure-attached mark -- the very first box in the Measure Expression Alignment dialog is the horizontal distance from the alignment

Re: [Finale] Wishlist

2006-05-03 Thread Scot Hanna-Weir
On 5/3/06 3:26 PM, dc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - the possibility to merge several files into one without losing anything. I'd love to see this in the way of a master document / subdocument form so that you could set document options for each individual file, (and retain them as you import them

Re: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question [lengthy Bailey reply] (cross-posted from OrchestraList)

2006-05-03 Thread Robert Patterson
Many of these have pretty good solutions now. Duration-linked geometric shapes. Custom Lines cover a large number of scenarios, quite likely including an indicator for improvised sections. More flexibility and ease of application of custom noteheads, and 'smart' stem connections which

Re: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question [lengthy Bailey reply] (cross-posted from OrchestraList)

2006-05-03 Thread Christopher Smith
On May 3, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: Off the top of my head, this is the start of my wishlist for improvements and extensions to Finale's capabilities, in no particular order (if any of them can be done in a way I'm not realising, please tell me!): Less global document settings.

Re: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question [lengthy Bailey reply] (cross-posted from OrchestraList)

2006-05-03 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-05-03 à 17:06, Johannes Gebauer a écrit : On 03.05.2006 Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Figured bass. With a decent font. Personally I wouldn't care about the font, if it was implemented in a way where it can utilize both fonts and the shape designer. I would prefer it to be a sub-mode of

RE: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question (Eek, I opened a can of worms)

2006-05-03 Thread Owain Sutton
A number of responses, in no order at all Duration-linked geometric shapes. Custom Lines cover a large number of scenarios, quite likely including an indicator for improvised sections. Not with anything like the flexibility I'd have liked. I'll immediately admit that this is

Re: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question (Eek, I opened a can of worms)

2006-05-03 Thread Robert Patterson
Owain Sutton wrote: (a) building expressions for such things counts as a workaround to me (and if we're picky, 2/8 and 2/10 have different spacing requirements, and I think that's a global setting ;) ). (b) If it's not necessary to implement, how about playback?! When they're part of

Re: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question [lengthy Bailey reply] (cross-posted from OrchestraList)

2006-05-03 Thread Eric Dannewitz
The ability to use EPS, Adobe pictures, or whatever as expressions. Like the graphics tool, except 20 times better and more flexible. That would be very cool. Éric Dussault wrote: Personally, the thing I would like the most is having the expression designer completely redesigned. It is so

[Finale] Distance *between* staves: how to make for a tighter fit.

2006-05-03 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
Hi everyone:I am trying to do two things:I want to keep the current size of my staffs/staves. BUT I want to decrease the distance between them, in the hope of getting three systems per page versus the two I have now. I have used the system reduction tool, but that ends up reducing the size of

Re: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question [lengthy Bailey reply] (cross-posted from OrchestraList)

2006-05-03 Thread Éric Dussault
I am not against the idea, if some people find it useful, but I want Finale to have modern drawing tools within the Shape Designer. Right now I feel like entering the Paint software that was part of Windows 95 (maybe earlier). I don't like the «Commodore 64» feel to it! Anyway I would not

Re: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question [lengthy Bailey reply] (cross-posted from OrchestraList)

2006-05-03 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Oh, but Paint is one of those great bundled Apps that comes with Windows http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/ Éric Dussault wrote: I am not against the idea, if some people find it useful, but I want Finale to have modern drawing tools within the Shape Designer. Right now I feel like entering

Re: [Finale] Distance *between* staves: how to make for a tighter fit.

2006-05-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
On Wed, May 3, 2006 9:19 pm, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: I want to keep the current size of my staffs/staves. BUT I want to decrease the distance between them, in the hope of getting three systems per page versus the two I have now. Select the Staff tool, select all of your staves, and do Staff |

Re: [Finale] Distance *between* staves: how to make for a tighter fit.

2006-05-03 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Hi everyone: I am trying to do two things: I want to keep the current size of my staffs/staves. BUT I want to decrease the distance between them, in the hope of getting three systems per page versus the two I have now. You can change the spacing between staves a

Re: [Finale] Distance *between* staves: how to make for a tighter fit.

2006-05-03 Thread Dick Hauser
On May 3, 2006, at 7:02 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: On Wed, May 3, 2006 9:19 pm, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: I want to keep the current size of my staffs/staves. BUT I want to decrease the distance between them, in the hope of getting three systems per page versus the two I have now. Select the