Re: [Finale] Help with numbering hymn stanzas

2007-02-09 Thread dhbailey
Greg Scheer wrote: You need to insert a hard space. Mac: Opt-Spacebar Win: Hold down alt and type 0160 on the numpad, not the number row across the top of the keyboard. The problem with this method is that if you create it on a Mac, export it as an EPS file, and it's opened on a PC (which I

Re: [Finale] binding parts: electrical tape

2007-02-09 Thread dhbailey
Bruce K H Kau wrote: Nowdays, you can get electrical tape in a variety of colors. Not that I know why. However, I've found that they're great for tagging microphone cables going into a mixer. I just put the same combination of colors on each end of the cable, and I then know which mic is

Re: [Finale] Help with numbering hymn stanzas

2007-02-09 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 09.02.2007 dhbailey wrote: Really? I have never heard that -- I always thought that an EPS was a vector graphics format and as such everything was described digitally, leaving no room for differing interpretations. As far as graphics are concerned, yes, but it includes fonts. This has

Re: [Finale] Help with numbering hymn stanzas

2007-02-09 Thread dhbailey
Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 09.02.2007 dhbailey wrote: Really? I have never heard that -- I always thought that an EPS was a vector graphics format and as such everything was described digitally, leaving no room for differing interpretations. As far as graphics are concerned, yes, but it

Re: [Finale] binding parts: electrical tape

2007-02-09 Thread shirling neueweise
The only electrical tape I know about is black and sticky: hardly a candidate for taping parts. What you are using is obviously different. no really, it's electrical tape, protection up to 6000V. like bruce said, it isn't as sticky as it used to be.

Re: [Finale] binding parts: electrical tape

2007-02-09 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 09.02.2007 shirling neueweise wrote: no really, it's electrical tape, protection up to 6000V. like bruce said, it isn't as sticky as it used to be. I'd really like to know, how you bind your music with it. Do you only stick two pages together, or do you make real booklets with more

Re: [Finale] binding parts: electrical tape

2007-02-09 Thread verngraham
Well, I must be the cheapest guy on the taping issue, but a big band leader who I have been supplying parts to for over 10 years has said that everything is still good. I use the cheap painter's 1 inch masking tape (preferably 3M). Years ago I found masking tape to be useless as it dried out,

Re: [Finale] binding parts: electrical tape

2007-02-09 Thread shirling neueweise
I'd really like to know, how you bind your music with it. Do you only stick two pages together, or do you make real booklets with more pages? How? i print to 9.5x12.5 2-sided, then prepare as a booklet, one piece of tape per pair of pages. tiny bit of space between the pages varies

Re: [Finale] binding parts: electrical tape

2007-02-09 Thread shirling neueweise
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I do when I finish the stack of parts, is apply some talc powder to the exposed (right hand) edge where the tape peeks through the seam great idea! i'm not sure i get where you mean, right edge... are you taping in accordion or in booklet form? i

Re: [Finale] binding parts: electrical tape

2007-02-09 Thread verngraham
ACCORDIAN method described. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I do when I finish the stack of parts, is apply some talc powder to the exposed (right hand) edge where the tape peeks through the seam great idea! i'm not sure i get where you mean, right edge... are you taping in accordion

Re: [Finale] binding parts: electrical tape

2007-02-09 Thread John Howell
At 2:50 PM +0100 2/9/07, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 09.02.2007 shirling neueweise wrote: no really, it's electrical tape, protection up to 6000V. like bruce said, it isn't as sticky as it used to be. I'd really like to know, how you bind your music with it. Do you only stick two pages

RE: [Finale] binding parts: electrical tape

2007-02-09 Thread keith helgesen
I'm totally with you- even to the talcum and the scent thereof! After 30 years as DOM of a community band, (retired Jan 30th!) we were still using charts arranged and 'taped' (no staples) by me in the 'early years'. About ten years ago I tried a 'cheaper than 3M' tape- bad move- two summers