[Finale] Eyeglasses?

2006-09-13 Thread Jonathan Smith
There's also a great pair of 'specs' in the Golden Age font (plus a whole lot of other really useful symbols) and now Don Rice has updated it for new OS's it runs fine. I've had many a comment from the band/orch about how useful this is. Jonathan

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread A-NO-NE Music
David W. Fenton / 2006/09/13 / 08:30 PM wrote: >Would a driver written for the PowerPC version of OS X work if run on >a MacIntel? Can drivers work on top of the compatibility layer (whose >name I've forgotten)? > >Would a driver written for Mac OS9 work on the current version of OS >X? You ar

[Finale] Re: Finale Digest, Vol 38, Issue 14

2006-09-13 Thread VivianAR
Dear person, I recieve Finale as a file.  How can I get it as posts? Vivian ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread David W. Fenton
On 13 Sep 2006 at 18:44, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > Noel Stoutenburg / 2006/09/13 / 05:15 PM wrote: > > >but the company manufacturing the chipset on the > >sound card no longer does so, and no longer supports it; I had the > >most recent driver available. > > Tell me about it. > I have two soft sa

[Finale] Files and Printing

2006-09-13 Thread Bruce E. Clausen
Novice question:  I'm working in FinWin06 and getting ready to print score and parts for a quartet, four movement work.  Each movement is a separate file.  Am I better off printing files separately or creating one super file with all movements included?  Which would make printing easier?   T

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Noel Stoutenburg / 2006/09/13 / 05:15 PM wrote: >but the company manufacturing the chipset on the >sound card no longer does so, and no longer supports it; I had the most >recent driver available. Tell me about it. I have two soft samplers no longer runs on my PC because its video driver isn't

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Phil Daley wrote: But in Windows, you might only have to load an updated driver. I would have done so, but the company manufacturing the chipset on the sound card no longer does so, and no longer supports it; I had the most recent driver available. ns

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Eric Dannewitz wrote: No no, everything runs perfect on his circa 1996 PC running Windows. Oh, and no viruses either. Or blue screens of death. To be fair, it was a ca. 2000 PC running WIN 98 SE, until earlier this spring when the machine experienced catastrophic mechanical failure, and I could

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Friends: Phil Daley's comment, in part wrote: It continues to amaze me of the steps Mac users must make to update to new software/machines, especially being forced to upgrade their software when upgrading machines. In Windows, everything just works. reminds me that I was remiss. The problem

Re: [Finale] Eyeglasses?

2006-09-13 Thread John Howell
Title: Re: [Finale] Eyeglasses? At 11:35 AM -0400 9/13/06, Andrew Stiller wrote: BTW, this symbol is amazingly old. I've seen it in an early-15th c. MS. No conductors back then! Do you happen to remember what ms. that was?  I wouldn't have thought that eyeglasses were all that common back then,

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread Eric Dannewitz
No no no. Windows users are always right. Always. ALWAYS. Noel is not using Windows, he's using a Mac that looks a lot like Windows. In fact, it has all the great features of Windows, like drivers that need updating, software from 1990 that still runs in DOS mode, etc. But it's a Mac. Really.

Re: [Finale] Eyeglasses?

2006-09-13 Thread Skip Lombardi
Hello, Phil,To address your last point first; you can't assume the musicians will be watching--particularly if they're sightreading. Should they be watching? Of course. One eye on the part, and one on the conductor. As for the eyeglass symbol, it's common in jazz writing, and I encountered it regul

Re: [Finale] Eyeglasses?

2006-09-13 Thread Chuck Israels
On Sep 13, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: Skip Lombardi wrote: as a student, I used to make a graphic of eyeglasses on the parts, to indicate that the musicians should look up to get the new tempo from the conductor. Interesting. To me, the glasses always indicated that the spo

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:13 PM 9/13/2006, Phil Daley wrote: >But in Windows, you might only have to load an updated driver. > >No cost. Phil, please go back and take a look at this thread: Noel *is using Windows*. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://li

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/13/2006 11:58 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: >At 11:47 AM 9/13/2006, Andrew Stiller wrote: > >Nobody seems to be interested in answering the original query, which > >struck me as fairly urgent. To my highly inexpert mind, it sounds to me > >as if the guy's hard-drive is on the verge of failure, an

Re: [Finale] Eyeglasses?

2006-09-13 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/13/2006 11:35 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: >Is this a jazz vs. classical distinction, or just a matter of personal >interpretation? > >BTW, this symbol is amazingly old. I've seen it in an early-15th c. MS. >No conductors back then! I have never seen (in 40 years) that symbol in any music I ha

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:47 AM 9/13/2006, Andrew Stiller wrote: >Nobody seems to be interested in answering the original query, which >struck me as fairly urgent. To my highly inexpert mind, it sounds to me >as if the guy's hard-drive is on the verge of failure, and requires >immediate attention! Andrew, he solved

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
Nobody seems to be interested in answering the original query, which struck me as fairly urgent. To my highly inexpert mind, it sounds to me as if the guy's hard-drive is on the verge of failure, and requires immediate attention! --Andrew ___ Finale

[Finale] Composer productivity survey

2006-09-13 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Hello everyone, Some of you participated in my composer productivity survey in June. The results are now available on New Music Box: http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=4789 Thanks to everyone for this -- detailed results and quotes will be available on my website shortly. I'll announce

Re: [Finale] Eyeglasses?

2006-09-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
Skip Lombardi wrote: as a student, I used to make a graphic of eyeglasses on the parts, to indicate that the musicians should look up to get the new tempo from the conductor. Interesting. To me, the glasses always indicated that the spot indicated required special attention, e.g. for a tri

Re: [Finale] Default file

2006-09-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
Not as terrible as having a file with an inaccurate name! Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ On Sep 12, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Aaron, Hmm... I'd never noticed that possibility in Program Options. That's a *terrible* and totally nonstand

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread Eric Dannewitz
No no, everything runs perfect on his circa 1996 PC running Windows. Oh, and no viruses either. Or blue screens of death. dhbailey wrote: Phil Daley wrote: It continues to amaze me of the steps Mac users must make to update to new software/machines, especially being forced to upgrade their so

Re: [Finale] OT: Harmonic Rhythm

2006-09-13 Thread Michael L. Meyer
On 9/12/06 10:45 PM, "A-NO-NE Music" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Meyer responded off list, which helped me a lot. I am not sure > why he didn't respond to the list and I certainly hope he doesn't mind I > am mentioning here. Sorry -- I wasn't sure if what I had to say would have been o

Re: [Finale] Eyeglasses?

2006-09-13 Thread tim-cates
I see your point - I always taught students that any tempo alteration basically means the same to them - look up. I do use the eyeglasses from time to time in Finale if I'm doing a leadsheet and need to do something unusual to keep the number of pages at a minimum for my guitar players or w

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:16 AM 9/13/2006, Phil Daley wrote: >At 9/13/2006 09:05 AM, dc wrote: > > >Phil Daley écrit: > >>It continues to amaze me of the steps Mac users must make to update to new > >>software/machines, especially being forced to upgrade their software when > >>upgrading machines. > > > >And forced t

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Phil Daley / 06.9.13 / 8:57 AM wrote: >It continues to amaze me of the steps Mac users must make to update to new >software/machines, especially being forced to upgrade their software when >upgrading machines. > >In Windows, everything just works. The problem report was on Windows, not Mac, in

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/13/2006 09:05 AM, dc wrote: >Phil Daley écrit: >>It continues to amaze me of the steps Mac users must make to update to new >>software/machines, especially being forced to upgrade their software when >>upgrading machines. > >And forced to use Windows software for their email, to boot. Eudor

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/13/2006 09:01 AM, dhbailey wrote: >Phil Daley wrote: >> >> In Windows, everything just works. > > >You are being sarcastic with that remark, I hope. Either that or you >and I inhabit vastly different Windows Universes. :-) I am running Finale V3.7 It works perfectly for me. Windows is v

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread dhbailey
Phil Daley wrote: At 9/13/2006 08:45 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: >Monday I finally got to installing Fin 2k7 on my machine. Installation >went well, including authorization. However, when I first attempted to >use the 2k7, I found I was getting a clicking noise (think a business >card attac

Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/13/2006 08:45 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: >Monday I finally got to installing Fin 2k7 on my machine. Installation >went well, including authorization. However, when I first attempted to >use the 2k7, I found I was getting a clicking noise (think a business >card attached to the fork of a bi

[Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

2006-09-13 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Friends: Monday I finally got to installing Fin 2k7 on my machine. Installation went well, including authorization. However, when I first attempted to use the 2k7, I found I was getting a clicking noise (think a business card attached to the fork of a bicycle, so that it clicks as the spokes

Re: [Finale] registration

2006-09-13 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Lora Crighton wrote: Can you not have finale on two computers? My understanding is that from 2004 or 2005, you can have official authorizations for each version on two separate computers. If you want to use the hard drive that way, and had copies of 2k5, 2k6, and 2k7, you could obtain an auth

Re: [Finale] registration

2006-09-13 Thread dhbailey
Lora Crighton wrote: Can you not have finale on two computers? I have it registered on a desktop, and I'm here at the university library trying to register it on my laptop (no internet at home) but I got some message about registration refused. I have 2006, which I registered on one computer, a