Re: [Finale] should we expect another upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread Mark D Lew
On Apr 26, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: On the Mac, that is not strictly true. FinMac 2002 was an almost perfect program, and I would still be using it today were it not for the fact that it will not run under Mac OSX. OSX required me to "upgrade" to Finale 2K4--which was in fact

Re: [Finale] System Margins dialog gone missing

2007-04-26 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 27.04.2007 Brennon Bortz wrote: I thought I had done so by deleting the file "Finale 2006 Preferences" in my User > Library > Preferences folder. I confirmed that this took place by noting a brand new creation date on the new file Finale created when I started the program next... It didn't

[Finale] Create coda systems

2007-04-26 Thread Giz Bowe
Anybody tried this plug-in yet? The "Horizonal Space before Coda" box is grayed out, and my system isn't indented. This would be very handy if it worked as advertised! Giz -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.463 / Virus Database: 269.6.1/776

Re: [Finale] Beam Angle

2007-04-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
George, If you are on a Mac, get iKey. You can program your own shortcuts for any tool or menu item. Similar programs exist for Windows. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 26 Apr 2007, at 1:46 PM, George Ports wrote: Is there a short cut key to get to the beam an

Re: [Finale] should we expect another upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread Martin Banner
I know Tom Johnson, and this was not him. On Apr 26, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: I don't know if the person at the Choral Directors Assn. meeting is the same one I see yearly at the Jazz Educators Convention. The one I know is Tom Johnson, and I like him enormously. He will often

Re: [Finale] should we expect another upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread Chuck Israels
I don't know if the person at the Choral Directors Assn. meeting is the same one I see yearly at the Jazz Educators Convention. The one I know is Tom Johnson, and I like him enormously. He will often let me know what is up at MM, and he has yet to mislead me. Nonetheless, that does nothi

Re: [Finale] should we expect another upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread Martin Banner
unfortunately, I do not... On Apr 26, 2007, at 8:20 PM, shirling & neueweise wrote: martin, do you have a name for this rep? i don't think claims of this sort should be taken lightly. I attended the national convention of the American Choral Directors Association in Miami back in March.

Re: [Finale] should we expect another upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread shirling & neueweise
martin, do you have a name for this rep? i don't think claims of this sort should be taken lightly. I attended the national convention of the American Choral Directors Association in Miami back in March. Make Music had an exhibit booth there, and I spent some time chatting with the MM rep t

Re: [Finale] Beam Angle

2007-04-26 Thread shirling & neueweise
Is there a short cut key to get to the beam angle in special tools? george, this is no shortcut for any special tool. please make your disappointment known to makemusic (not that i don't care, but we need to address discontentment to the proper channels if we hope for any changes...) --

RE: [Finale] should we expect another upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread Richard Yates
>MakeMusic really owes us a version that fixes the most >annoying of Finale's bugs. Whether we'll get one is doubtful. >I'm willing to be surprised however. For me the sign of a change will be when bugs are fixed that may be insignificant to production but should be an embarrassment to the comp

Re: [Finale] System Margins dialog gone missing

2007-04-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
com.makemusic.Finale.plist Also keep in mind that Finale looks in the Finale application folder first for preferences. If you have a set of preferences in your Finale 2006 folder, it doesn't matter if you trash the set in your User/Library folder, Finale will ignore that and use the one loc

Re: [Finale] System Margins dialog gone missing

2007-04-26 Thread Brennon Bortz
I thought I had done so by deleting the file "Finale 2006 Preferences" in my User > Library > Preferences folder. I confirmed that this took place by noting a brand new creation date on the new file Finale created when I started the program next... It didn't fix the problem. Is there a d

Re: [Finale] System Margins dialog gone missing

2007-04-26 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 26.04.2007 Brennon Bortz wrote: As I said, they were, in fact, off screen. Trashing my preferences was not the fix after all. Since the position is in fact saved within the preferences, it would have fixed it, had you trashed the correct file. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com

Re: [Finale] System Margins dialog gone missing

2007-04-26 Thread Brennon Bortz
As I said, they were, in fact, off screen. Trashing my preferences was not the fix after all. --BB On Apr 24, 2007, at 7:49 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 24.04.2007 Brennon Bortz wrote: Well, trashing my preferences didn't work. So, I decided I would try and plug in my external display

Re: [Finale] should we expect another upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread dhbailey
Martin Banner wrote: I attended the national convention of the American Choral Directors Association in Miami back in March. Make Music had an exhibit booth there, and I spent some time chatting with the MM rep then, who informed me that there was going to be another upgrade to Finale 2007 in t

Re: [Finale] should we expect another upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread Randolph Peters
Andrew Stiller wrote: FinMac 2002 was an almost perfect program, and I would still be using it today were it not for the fact that it will not run under Mac OSX. OSX required me to "upgrade" to Finale 2K4--which was in fact no upgrade at all, but a buggy step backward. I think Finale 2003 was

[Finale] Beam Angle

2007-04-26 Thread George Ports
Is there a short cut key to get to the beam angle in special tools? Can't seem to find anything like that in the Keyboard Shortcuts help section. Thanks for any help. George Ports ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mail

Re: [Finale] should we expect another upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Well, when you consider they said SmartMusic 10 was "coming soon" for almost 9 months. Martin Banner wrote: I attended the national convention of the American Choral Directors Association in Miami back in March. Make Music had an exhibit booth there, and I spent some time chatting with

Re: [Finale] should we expect another upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Andrew Stiller / 2007/04/26 / 12:44 PM wrote: >Only half of this problem is MakeMusic's fault. The other half is >Apple's. I am not too sure about that. Luck does work here in a great deal to my eyes. I have seen quite a few heavy applications suffered/still- suffering OSX move over, while ot

Re: [Finale] should we expect another upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread Martin Banner
I attended the national convention of the American Choral Directors Association in Miami back in March. Make Music had an exhibit booth there, and I spent some time chatting with the MM rep then, who informed me that there was going to be another upgrade to Finale 2007 in the near future. That

[Finale] possible plugin

2007-04-26 Thread Chuck Israels
Robert, Tobias et al, Is it possible/practical to write a plugin that would switch settings in one stroke from score to parts in linked 2k7 - changing those things that are consistently different (text blocks - show//hide, page # offset, printer page setup, etc.). Maybe this is something

Re: [Finale] should we expect another upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Apr 26, 2007, at 5:27 AM, dhbailey wrote: With Finale, any of us are free to jump off the "pay-for-features-you-probably-won't-use-along-with-a-couple-of-bug- fixes" annual upgrade merry-go-round and to continue to use our most recently purchased version (and any/all previous versions)

Re: [Finale] should we expect another upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread dhbailey
Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 26.04.2007 Randolph Peters wrote: Should we expect another upgrade to Finale 2007 before Finale 2008 comes at us? No. Johannes While I agree with Johannes on this answer, I would phrase it differently: *Should* we expect another upgrade? Yes, because as end-