RE: [Finale] WinFin 2007 & PDF

2006-08-28 Thread Lee Actor
> Lee Actor écrit: > >http://www.leeactor.com/pdf/PrelTrag_2.pdf. Depending on the viewing > >magnification, some bar lines and ledger lines may be too thick, > but it is > >legible, if not ideal. > > I agree that the staff lines don't look bad, but the slurs and ties, with > all due respect, look

Re: [Finale] Linked parts

2006-08-28 Thread Tyler Turner
--- Chuck Israels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Johannes, > > I found "Create MM Rests" in Manage Parts/Parts > Creation Preferences, > but turning it on and off does nothing. There's no > change. I still > have an incorrect MM rest at the beginning and no > more MM rests later > in t

Re: [Finale] Linked parts

2006-08-28 Thread Tyler Turner
In case there's any confusion about this Update Automatically setting for multimeasure rests - The feature is intended to let Finale break multimeasure rests where notes have been added. It is not intended to automatically create them in measures that weren't previously grouped into multimeasure

Re: [Finale] Articulation Selection Problem

2006-08-28 Thread Tyler Turner
--- Dejan Badnjar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure if this issue is isolated with my > installation of Finale 2007 or it's a bug. > Since I had problems with loading my articulation > libraries last night and not being able to see half > of the symbols I started creating a new library.

Re: [Finale] Linked parts

2006-08-28 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 28.08.2006 Chuck Israels wrote: Respectfully, I am finding all kinds of anomalies in linked parts, and checking automatic update in both the template from which I am working and in the default file does not cure them. Perhaps there is something else I have done incorrectly. There are stil

Re: [Finale] Linked parts

2006-08-28 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 28.08.2006 Tyler Turner wrote: The definition of any existing multimeasure rest will I believe be reset to default if this option is checked. Really? That seems like a really major design problem. I will test this eventually, just haven't got time for it now. Johannes -- http://www.musikm

Re: [Finale] WinFin 2007 & PDF

2006-08-28 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Lee Actor wrote: So the question remains: how to produce a high quality pdf from Finale inWindows? My preferred method is to print to file using a Postscript driver, and use Ghostscript and Ghostview (cf: ) to create the ~.pdf. This can also be a workaround for

Re: [Finale] OT: The or not The?

2006-08-28 Thread dhbailey
Chuck Israels wrote: Hiro, I am trying to get the "feel" of this, and I keep coming up with and "The." as sounding right in English. But we do say "Boston University", for whatever reason, as in, "The faculty and students of Boston University" But we would say "The Boston Univers

Re: [Finale] OT: The or not The?

2006-08-28 Thread dhbailey
keith helgesen wrote: I know nothing of the legalities, grammar, or semantics of using "The" or not using it, but surely a publisher should not be able to dictate to anyone about the name of their combo. It's your outfit- your language- and I presume you are footing the bill-so put your foot down

[Finale] More on linked parts and WinFin2007

2006-08-28 Thread dhbailey
I was just working on a score (flute quintet) and was looking at the Manage Parts dialog and investigated two things, neither of which I recall having seen mentioned in the various discussions of potential failures of this linked score/parts feature and just thought I would bring them up. One

Re: [Finale] layer 2 to voice 2

2006-08-28 Thread dhbailey
dc wrote: I entered 2 layers on one staff, and wonder if I could convert the layer 2 to voice 2 instead (without changing anything in layer 1/voice 1). Is there some kind of plug-in that will do this? There's a plug-in to convert voice 2 to layer 2, but not one which works in reverse, at le

Re: [Finale] layer 2 to voice 2

2006-08-28 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 28.08.2006 dhbailey wrote: There's a plug-in to convert voice 2 to layer 2, but not one which works in reverse, at least not in the plug-ins which come by default with Fin2007. This plugin would have to be pretty clever to do this properly. Remember that layers and voices are very differen

Re: [Finale] OT: The or not The?

2006-08-28 Thread John Howell
At 6:31 AM -0400 8/28/06, dhbailey wrote: Chuck Israels wrote: Hiro, I am trying to get the "feel" of this, and I keep coming up with and "The." as sounding right in English. But we do say "Boston University", for whatever reason, as in, "The faculty and students of Boston University...

Re: [Finale] OT: The or not The?

2006-08-28 Thread dhbailey
John Howell wrote: At 6:31 AM -0400 8/28/06, dhbailey wrote: Chuck Israels wrote: Hiro, I am trying to get the "feel" of this, and I keep coming up with and "The." as sounding right in English. But we do say "Boston University", for whatever reason, as in, "The faculty and students of

Re: [Finale] OT: The or not The?

2006-08-28 Thread Raymond Horton
dhbailey wrote: Wow, whenever I tune in to a football game, I never hear "the" in front of "Ohio State University" -- It's always "The buckeyes of Ohio State" or "Ohio State University takes on Purdue in today's NCAA Game of the Week." But I agree that tradition and not grammar rules the d

Re: [Finale] More on linked parts and WinFin2007

2006-08-28 Thread Chuck Israels
On Aug 28, 2006, at 4:28 AM, dhbailey wrote: One has to do with Chuck Israels' problem regarding part names -- in the Manage Parts dialog there is an option to Edit Part Name. I don't recall if you tried that to resolve your trumpet part labels, but if not, perhaps that's what you're l

Re: [Finale] Linked parts

2006-08-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
That's a great relief :-) Thanks! On Aug 27, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 02:50 PM 8/27/2006, Éric Dussault wrote: >Tell me if I am wrong, but If you have a 2k4 file, chances are that >the parts are already done (as you said), and as they are seperate >files, they will likely open

[Finale] Linked parts - troubles and solutions

2006-08-28 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi all,Here's what I (think I) learned from MM support this morning:The update MM rest option in Document Options does nothing about creating the MM rests in linked parts in the first place.  If I understand this new system correctly, MM rests do not exist in the score automatically; they are not

Re: [Finale] Linked parts - troubles and solutions

2006-08-28 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
As a sympathetic lurker, you learned a hell of a lot in one day ... congrats. Dean On Aug 28, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Chuck Israels wrote: Hi all, Here's what I (think I) learned from MM support this morning: The update MM rest option in Document Options does nothing about creating the MM re

Re: [Finale] OT: The or not The?

2006-08-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
Natural languages (unlike, say, Esperanto) are not artificial creations, and are not required to be internally consistent. in fact, none of them is. In English, the question of where to use "the" before proper names and when not to fluctuates over time and from one place to another. Bodies of

Re: [Finale] Linked parts - troubles and solutions

2006-08-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:20 PM 8/28/2006, Chuck Israels wrote: >The update MM rest option in Document Options does nothing about >creating the MM rests in linked parts in the first place. If I >understand this new system correctly, MM rests do not exist in the >score automatically; they are not created "behind the

Re: [Finale] OT: The or not The?

2006-08-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Aug 27, 2006, at 7:08 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 06:51 PM 8/27/2006, Christopher Smith wrote: >stands for.) Harvard is a proper name, so would not include "the",  Sorry, I couldn't resist. I agree with you that Hiro should use 'the', but: The Johns Hopkins University The Juilliard Sch

Re: [Finale] OT: The or not The?

2006-08-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Aug 27, 2006, at 8:53 PM, John Howell wrote: The use or non-use of definite or indefinite articles varies with language. My understanding is that Russian omits them quite often, Russian doesn't even *have* them! Normal usage in English (if there is such a thing!) would be to use the

Re: [Finale] Linked parts - troubles and solutions

2006-08-28 Thread Chuck Israels
On Aug 28, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 01:20 PM 8/28/2006, Chuck Israels wrote: >The update MM rest option in Document Options does nothing about >creating the MM rests in linked parts in the first place. If I >understand this new system correctly, MM rests do not exist in the >

Re: [Finale] Linked parts - troubles and solutions

2006-08-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:29 PM 8/28/2006, Chuck Israels wrote: > >On Aug 28, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: >> This last part is not entirely correct. If you generate parts from >> an existing score, what controls the *creation* of MM rests is >> Document | Manage Parts | Part Creation Preferences | Create

Re: [Finale] Linked parts - troubles and solutions

2006-08-28 Thread Chuck Israels
On Aug 28, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: Just for kicks, can you try this: 1. File | New | Document with Setup Wizard 2. Add Piccolo, Flute, *uncheck* Generate LInked Parts, finish with defaults. 3. Document | Manage Parts | Part Creation Preferences, check Create MM Rests 4. G

Re: [Finale] Linked parts - troubles and solutions

2006-08-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:02 PM 8/28/2006, Chuck Israels wrote: >When I looked at the part view (I did this before entering notes in >the score, just to see how they'd look), I saw the same thing - a big >MM rest, and when looking at the parts view after entering all the >information in the score, that original MM re

Re: [Finale] OT: The or not The?

2006-08-28 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 02:18 PM 8/28/06 -0400, Andrew Stiller wrote: >American usage seems to have decided that all >collective nouns are singular. As in "them fish sure is bitin' today" :) Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/

Re: [Finale] Linked parts - troubles and solutions

2006-08-28 Thread Chuck Israels
On Aug 28, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 03:02 PM 8/28/2006, Chuck Israels wrote: >When I looked at the part view (I did this before entering notes in >the score, just to see how they'd look), I saw the same thing - a big >MM rest, and when looking at the parts view after entering

Re: [Finale] Linked parts - troubles and solutions

2006-08-28 Thread Chuck Israels
The only thing wrong with the drum part was the same thing I was encountering in the other parts, and this was true for both the linked part view and the extracted part. Staff styles were not applied from about the 9th measure through to 3 measures before the end, and then the last 3 measu

Re: [Finale] Linked parts - troubles and solutions

2006-08-28 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 28, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Hi all,Here's what I (think I) learned from MM support this morning:The update MM rest option in Document Options does nothing about creating the MM rests in linked parts in the first place.  If I understand this new system correctly, MM rests do no

[Finale] Igor: What's the scoop?

2006-08-28 Thread Stephen Onwood
Hi Finaleists, A few years ago there was a lot of excitement and anticipation for the release of Igor engraving program by Noteheads. I am wondering if any of the list members have tried out the program and, if so, what are your impressions and how does it compare with Finale? Is it all it

RE: [Finale] OT: The or not The?

2006-08-28 Thread keith helgesen
Well there you go! As ever, David explains it! Thanks, Cheers K in OZ Keith Helgesen. Director of Music, Canberra City Band. Ph: (02) 62910787. Mob 0417-042171 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dhbailey Sent: Monday, 28 August 2006 8:38

RE: [Finale] Igor: What's the scoop?

2006-08-28 Thread Williams, Jim
Well... When they started with Igor, they swore up & down that it would be freeware forever and that they'd make their money via commissions on sales of user pieces and ABBA scores. Shortly thereafter, the price went to $295 and development virtually stopped. They have been on version 1.7 foreve

[Finale] [Fwd: [Igor-talk] I've been blessed!]

2006-08-28 Thread Barbara Touburg
Original Message Subject: [Igor-talk] I've been blessed! Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:18:09 -0400 From: "Copaja Felipe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Discussions about Igor Engraver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussions about Igor Engraver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Just received an A

RE: [Finale] [Fwd: [Igor-talk] I've been blessed!]

2006-08-28 Thread Williams, Jim
Interesting, Barbara! This differs from what I heard a while back. Maybe some investor has given them more cash. Jim From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Barbara Touburg Sent: Mon 28-Aug-06 18:36 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: [Finale] [Fwd: [Igor-talk] I've been bl

Re: [Finale] [Fwd: [Igor-talk] I've been blessed!]

2006-08-28 Thread Barbara Touburg
Proof's in the pudding... Williams, Jim wrote: Interesting, Barbara! This differs from what I heard a while back. Maybe some investor has given them more cash. Jim From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Barbara Touburg Sent: Mon 28-Aug-06 18:36 To: finale@shsu.ed

RE: [Finale] Igor: What's the scoop?

2006-08-28 Thread Tyler Turner
--- "Williams, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Along the same lines, has anyone used TURANDOT? > www.turandot.hu , another program that appeared and > then stalled in development. > It's going to sound strange, but I think anyone who is interested in purchasing Turandot should write to Si

Re: [Finale] slur question

2006-08-28 Thread John Howell
At 5:33 PM +0200 8/28/06, dc wrote: How does one get a decent looking slur between, say, A and B in eighth notes in G clef (i.e. when the first note has its stem upwards and the second downwards)? Reverse the stem on the B? John -- John & Susie Howell Virginia Tech Department of Music Black

Re: [Finale] Igor: What's the scoop?

2006-08-28 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 28.08.2006 Stephen Onwood wrote: A few years ago there was a lot of excitement and anticipation for the release of Igor engraving program by Noteheads. I am wondering if any of the list members have tried out the program and, if so, what are your impressions and how does it compare with Fi

Re: [Finale] Igor: What's the scoop?

2006-08-28 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 29.08.2006 dc wrote: Johannes Gebauer écrit: The last time I looked the main problem was that the output was simply unacceptably bad. The font was terrible, slurs looked dreadful, beams were placed terribly. Agreed. The clefs are horrible! Not to mention the dreadful text underlay, simpl