Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Chuck Israels
On Aug 5, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I was thinking of the 9-flip enharmonic problem in Fin07 and 08. I haven't done any kind of rigorous testing, but my impression is that it's worse on staves set to Chromatic Transposition. In fact, I'm not even sure if I've run into th

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 05 Aug 2007, at 5:22 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: On Aug 5, 2007, at 12:21 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Yes, but Finale's Chromatic Transposition is seriously flawed compared to Sibelius's, which allows one-click enabling of the option ("Atonal/Open Key" is a key signature, a separate ke

Re: [Finale] can't open online help

2007-08-05 Thread Chuck Israels
Ah! Hal, I had already put this bookmark in for this reason, but I had forgotten it was there. Showing my age. Thank you. Chuck On Aug 5, 2007, at 6:32 PM, Harold Owen wrote: Dear Chuck, MakeMusic has owned up to the fact that the help files don't come up with some browsers, and the

Re: [Finale] can't open online help

2007-08-05 Thread Eric Dannewitz
So, when Finale 2009 come out then? ;-) Harold Owen wrote: Dear Chuck, MakeMusic has owned up to the fact that the help files don't come up with some browsers, and they are working to fix that. There is a work-around. You open your browser, go to the file menu and select OPEN. Then you find

RE: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Steve Schow
Thanks for the scolding. I rest my case. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of David W. Fenton > Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 5:35 PM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: RE: [Finale] Goodbye Finale > > On 5 Aug 2007 at 11:29, Steve Schow wr

Re: [Finale] can't open online help

2007-08-05 Thread Harold Owen
Dear Chuck, MakeMusic has owned up to the fact that the help files don't come up with some browsers, and they are working to fix that. There is a work-around. You open your browser, go to the file menu and select OPEN. Then you find Applications/Finale 2008/Help Files/Finale.htm. When the fil

Re: [Finale] OT: choir+piano layout

2007-08-05 Thread Christopher Smith
On 30-Jul-07, at 8:40 AM, shirling & neueweise wrote: am i correct in thinking the vocal lines should not be op^timized out of piano solo passsages? That is what I like, but according to the overwhelming majority of music I see, the vocal staffs are optimised out. Christopher

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Aug 2007 at 17:16, Christopher Smith wrote: > On Aug 5, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Bob Morabito wrote: > > > On Fri Aug 3 at 14:29:42 , David W. Fenton wrote: > > > >> It will be interesting to see if the same stubbornness that caused > >> you to refuse to do the Finale tutorials in full will cause y

RE: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Aug 2007 at 11:29, Steve Schow wrote: > I haven't been lurking on this list very long, Take that thought and meditate on its implications for a while. > but the impression I That's the keyword in everything you've said... > have so far is that a large majority of the chatter on here is >

[Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Bob Morabito
On Sun Aug 5 16:16:39 Christopher Smith wrote: * Previous message: [Finale] Goodbye Finale * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] On Aug 5, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Bob Morabito wrote: > On Fri Aug 3 at 14:29:42 , David W. Fenton wrote: > >> It will be interesting

Re: [Finale] Kanji in Finale Mac

2007-08-05 Thread Robert Patterson
Without in any way excusing Finale's lack of Unicode support, I should clarify that my solution is text-based. That is, I did not have to import the kanji characters as graphics, and their positioning is as consistent as any text block in Finale. Christopher Smith wrote: Hey, Robert (and oth

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 5, 2007, at 6:07 AM, dhbailey wrote: You don't need to use the mouse to do everything in Sibelius any more than you need to use the mouse to do everything in Finale. Unless you're on a Mac, where you need the mouse a lot more than on Windows for Finale. I have long envied Windo

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 4, 2007, at 8:38 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 08:19 PM 8/4/2007, Bruce E. Clausen wrote: > Also, call it petty, >as a composer, I resent having to work around having to use key signatures. >Though my work is tonal, it is highly chromatic and sigs are annoying. >Further, as a horn play

Re: [Finale] Kanji in Finale Mac

2007-08-05 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 4, 2007, at 6:46 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: Bruce K H Kau wrote: I don't know about Mac, but on the PC platform, the limitation is that Finale doesn't support Unicode. Thanks, Bruce. I figured out what to do. My mistake was trying to copy/paste the characters from a Unicode progra

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale - now a tunnel-vision Finale 2008 review

2007-08-05 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 4, 2007, at 5:32 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Hi Ray, Linked parts takes some getting used to, but it does work pretty well for me. I find TG Tools (the full deal) particularly useful in transferring all or part of a part layout from one part to another (TG Tool menu/modify/transfer)

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 5, 2007, at 12:21 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Yes, but Finale's Chromatic Transposition is seriously flawed compared to Sibelius's, which allows one-click enabling of the option ("Atonal/Open Key" is a key signature, a separate key signature choice from "C major") But in Sibelius

[Finale] can't open online help

2007-08-05 Thread Chuck Israels
Thanks jef, I will set the tone to even lighter than I now have it set, and maybe that will help me to deal with this. Now - another problem: I am trying to find out how to re-size measure reduction using the selection tool (as you used to be able to do with mass edit), and I find I canno

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 5, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Bob Morabito wrote: On Fri Aug 3 at 14:29:42 , David W. Fenton wrote: It will be interesting to see if the same stubbornness that caused you to refuse to do the Finale tutorials in full will cause you problems learning Sibelius, too. I think comments like the abo

Re: [Finale] whatever works

2007-08-05 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 5, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: My daughter and I are playing in the pit orchestra for a production of Peter Pan. The books are distributed by Samuel French Warehouse out of Hurleyville, NY. In my 40 years of show playing, I have never seen parts so poorly prepare

RE: [Finale] whatever works

2007-08-05 Thread Williams, Jim
Anyone for Laser Music Processor From: Steve Schow Sent: Sun 05-Aug-07 14:32 To: 'finale@shsu.edu' Subject: RE: [Finale] whatever works Deluxe Music Construction set. Now there is a blast from the past. > -Original Message- > Of Lawrence David Eden > > I can only hope that the b

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale - now a tunnel-vision Finale 2008 review

2007-08-05 Thread shirling & neueweise
chuck, you can change the colour and tone of the hidden elements so they aren't as obtrusive. in fact i have set mine to a light brown colour, so i can better visualize how some elements will appear (in B&W) in the parts (that are hidden in the score) without looking at the parts, but ligh

RE: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:29 PM 8/5/2007, Steve Schow wrote: >I haven't been lurking on this list very long, but the impression I >have so far is that a large majority of the chatter on here is >opinionated conjecture about how bad the bugs in Finale are and why >they would so much rather be using Sibelius. I can se

RE: [Finale] whatever works

2007-08-05 Thread Steve Schow
Deluxe Music Construction set. Now there is a blast from the past. > -Original Message- > Of Lawrence David Eden > > I can only hope that the boys at Samuel French will hire someone to > clean up the books! Whether they choose Finale, Sibelius or Deluxe > Music Construction Set makes

RE: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Steve Schow
> Would it be such a drain on MM's resources to allow their employees to > maintain a presence here officially, instead of making them do it on > their own time and unofficially? > First of all, MM does have its own forum and some of their employees do actively monitor it. I have gotten answer

[Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Bob Morabito
On Fri Aug 3 at 14:29:42 , David W. Fenton wrote: It will be interesting to see if the same stubbornness that caused you to refuse to do the Finale tutorials in full will cause you problems learning Sibelius, too. I think comments like the above are best left unsaid--thanks. Im just back

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Darcy James Argue
Not so easy, actually -- see my followup post. Unlike Sibelius, in Finale you must switch each staff to Chromatic Transposition one at a time. There is no way to take a score template that is set for Key Sig Transposition (or a file generated by the Setup Wizard, which always uses Key Sig T

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I dunno. Sounds like work. MakeMusic doesn't seem to like to do that. And the Trolls they have lurking in their Forums.I think it would be best if MakeMusic just went to like US Postal support ;-) dhbailey wrote: The Sibelius-list at yahoogroups isn't owned by Sibelius, yet they offici

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Robert Patterson
On 8/5/07, Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However I have grown tired of Sibelius users charging Finale with being > clumsy and Finale users saying Sibelius is not capable of serious work. I have at many times grown so fed up with Makemusic as to seriously consider switching. But ever

Re: [Finale] whatever works

2007-08-05 Thread dhbailey
Lawrence David Eden wrote: My daughter and I are playing in the pit orchestra for a production of Peter Pan. The books are distributed by Samuel French Warehouse out of Hurleyville, NY. In my 40 years of show playing, I have never seen parts so poorly prepared. The books are photocopies of

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale - now a tunnel-vision Finale 2008 review

2007-08-05 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi jef, Yes, that's essentially what I do in extracted parts but, with those, you never see the unused symbol (at least not in page view). I readily admit to personal, emotional irrationality on this issue, but I simply don't like those half tone symbols lurking on the screen in my scor

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 06:07 AM 8/5/2007 -0400, dhbailey wrote: >The only way to determine that would be to find 20 or 30 >super-power-users of each product and have a shootout involving 3 or 4 >different scores from musical history, including recent scores such as >the kind Dennis Bathory-Kitsz works on. >I'm cert

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Richard Smith
On the contrary, I work with both Finale and Sibelius and I learn useful things on this list. My first Finale was version 2 and I have used 3.5, 97, 2003, and 2005. I haven't decided about 2008 yet but it's probably about time to upgrade. My first Sibelius was 1.0 and I have had every version s

[Finale] whatever works

2007-08-05 Thread Lawrence David Eden
My daughter and I are playing in the pit orchestra for a production of Peter Pan. The books are distributed by Samuel French Warehouse out of Hurleyville, NY. In my 40 years of show playing, I have never seen parts so poorly prepared. The books are photocopies of the old velum, and the oils

Re: [Finale] Converting 2007 to 2006

2007-08-05 Thread dhbailey
Brian Williams wrote: Hello List, I was almost done working on an orchestral film music cue file in Finale 2006 when the program crashed. I immediately double-clicked on the file icon and after Finale had re-launched all my data was saved - except for the last five minutes of work, so I immediat

Re: [Finale] Re: Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread dhbailey
Richard Smith wrote: Henry E. Howey wrote: Also, I really need SMARTMUSIC, and it only works with 5inale. So does MM. That's why SmartMusic is only compatible with Finale. By the way, why should I pay for a SmartMusic subscription, ostensibly to be able to use licensed content, and not be

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale - now a tunnel-vision Finale 2008 review

2007-08-05 Thread shirling & neueweise
Now, will someone please explain to me how this linked parts stuff works? Raymond Horton read the manual, pp 37-5 onwards, everything is explained clearly, as i repeat every 2-3 weeks when this question comes up. -- shirling & neueweise ... new music publishers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :..

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread dhbailey
Steve Schow wrote: For people who have grown up with Finale and used it for many versions, it will remain easier to use until an equal amount of time is put into learning Sibelius. But for people just starting out with one notation program or the other, it's what they learn first which will seem

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread dhbailey
Aaron Sherber wrote: At 08:25 PM 8/4/2007, Leigh Daniels wrote: >And that's another problem with Finale support--we are extremely >unlikely to see *any* reply from MM on this list. This is not an MM list, and MM does not officially monitor it. This has always been true. The Sibelius-list

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale - now a tunnel-vision Finale 2008 review

2007-08-05 Thread shirling & neueweise
As I have often said, the one thing I can't figure out how to do in the linked parts is to place a "To Coda" symbol in the middle of a MM rest without breaking out one individual measure (5 - 1- 2 for instance, instead of 6 - 2). assign it in the part to the first measure in the MM rest, hid

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread shirling & neueweise
Though my work is tonal, it is highly chromatic and sigs are annoying. Further, as a horn player, I find it disconcerting to put things into a C score to work around. Is it so difficult for MM to add "no key/atonal" to the choices? huh? leave the score in C (key sig) and uncheck "display in

[Finale] Converting 2007 to 2006

2007-08-05 Thread Brian Williams
Hello List, I was almost done working on an orchestral film music cue file in Finale 2006 when the program crashed. I immediately double-clicked on the file icon and after Finale had re-launched all my data was saved - except for the last five minutes of work, so I immediately resaved the file. Ho

RE: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Steve Schow
Richard it sounds like you are wasting your time on this mail-list. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Richard Smith > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 11:08 PM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale > > If you li