Re: [Finale] Size of Orchestra Score

2008-08-25 Thread John Howell
At 6:40 PM -0600 8/24/08, Jane Frasier wrote: I am engraving a composition for full orchestra plus SATB. The customer has asked for the score on 8.5 x 11 paper. At that size everything is so tiny I can't imagine it would be readable. What size of page do you use? In the past I have printed on

Re: [Finale] resend: FinWin 09 printing problem

2008-08-25 Thread Christopher Smith
Hi Cecil, I have had problems printing booklets on my 5100 (Mac OS10.4), even with feeding the paper twice (that is, no duplexer). Despite several attempts at fixing it from people on this list and calls to tech support, I still haven't been able to do it. Tech support is unable to

Re: [Finale] Size of Orchestra Score

2008-08-25 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
John Howell wrote: I've NEVER used octavo, but it might be because the choral folders she's using only hold that size. Again, give the customer what she wants, although you'll have to futz with paper and maybe cutting down since that is NOT a standard office size, nor a size that copy shops

Re: [Finale] Size of Orchestra Score

2008-08-25 Thread Adam Taylor
Jane Frasier wrote: I am engraving a composition for full orchestra plus SATB. The customer has asked for the score on 8.5 x 11 paper. At that size everything is so tiny I can't imagine it would be readable. What size of page do you use? In the past I have printed on 10 x 14 and that looked

Re: [Finale] resend: FinWin 09 printing problem

2008-08-25 Thread Cecil Rigby
Well, that's just not going to cut it, obviously. I'll try the 2-up option- I just didn't think that was a logical solution. (That begs a great response from someone!) Thanks for the background info, Christopher- maybe it'll help in my quest -Cecil Rigby - Original Message -

[Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-25 Thread Johnson, Mark
Greetings SHSU list subscribers, I'm Mark Johnson, and I am responsible for all of MakeMusic's notation documentation resources including the User Manual, Installation and Tutorials guide, QuickStart Videos, and other materials. We are currently conducting a review of all of these materials to

Re: [Finale] multi-measure rests in 1st and 2nd endings

2008-08-25 Thread Chuck Israels
On Aug 24, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: On Aug 24, 2008, at 6:04 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Hi Christopher, Adjusting repeat brackets over mm rests is often problematic. I find that if I have made changes to the default positioning of the bracket ends in the score, I

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-25 Thread Giz Bowe
At 11:14 AM 8/25/2008, you wrote: I encourage any comments you have, but especially appreciate a description of your most negative experiences with the Finale help resources and perhaps any ideas regarding its improvement. I don't like having to use Internet Explorer to access help. In fact,

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-25 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:48 PM 8/25/2008, Giz Bowe wrote: I don't like having to use Internet Explorer to access help. In fact, I don't like to go online at all for help. You do need IE (or some other browser) to access the new help files, but you don't need to be online. The help files all reside on your hard

[Finale] Unable to launch Finale

2008-08-25 Thread Haroldo Mauro Jr.
Macbook Intel, Core 2 Duo OS 10.5.4 Finale 2008 Finale was running fine on my machine until now. This is what just happened: It quits unexpectedly every time I try to launch it. If I click on the relaunch button I get this: The application Finale 2008 quit unexpectedly after it was relaunched.

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-25 Thread dhbailey
Johnson, Mark wrote: Greetings SHSU list subscribers, I'm Mark Johnson, and I am responsible for all of MakeMusic's notation documentation resources including the User Manual, Installation and Tutorials guide, QuickStart Videos, and other materials. We are currently conducting a review of all

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-25 Thread Robert Patterson
Hello, Mark. This is not a specific comment about Finale's online help, but if MM wants to hit a homerun with online documentation they'll have to get a whole lot better than they are now, or indeed that any program I know of is now. The only truly successful online help I've ever used was the

Re: [Finale] Unable to launch Finale

2008-08-25 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Try trashing your Finale Preferences, which are in USERNAME/Library/Preferences/Finale 2008 Preferences If that doesn't clear it up, you might want to check the logs, which you can get to by the Apple Menu, About this Mac, More Info..Then go down to Software-system.log and see what it

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-25 Thread Allen Fisher
What about the help button that's right in dialogs? F1 is there on windows. On Aug 25, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: There should be a Help key (in VB it is F1). Pressing the help key should pop useful information about the exact dbx and exact field within the dbx where my cursor

Re: [Finale] Unable to launch Finale

2008-08-25 Thread Haroldo Mauro Jr.
Trashing the preferences did it. Thanks a lot! Harold At 13:33 -0700 25/8/08, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Try trashing your Finale Preferences, which are in USERNAME/Library/Preferences/Finale 2008 Preferences If that doesn't clear it up, you might want to check the logs, which you can get to by

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-25 Thread Robert Patterson
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Allen Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the help button that's right in dialogs? If I click the help button, it no longer knows which field I was in. I want help specific to exactly where I am, not just to the dbx where I am. And it needs to make a

Re: [Finale] Unable to launch Finale

2008-08-25 Thread Chuck Israels
Harold, The first thing to try is to delete your Finale Preference file (on a Mac, this resides in User/Library/Preferences - don't know about PCs). This sounds suspiciously like a corrupted preference file is the culprit. You will have to re-build your preferences after Finale

Re: [Finale] TAN: building a database for a music library

2008-08-25 Thread Patrick Sheehan
Wow, look at the argument. tsk tsk tsk Be a lot shorter if Danneblitz was merely deleted off of the list, ...because this sort of behavior has been exhibited before, sadly. -- From: Eric Dannewitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-25 Thread David W. Fenton
On 25 Aug 2008 at 15:38, Allen Fisher wrote: What about the help button that's right in dialogs? It should be mapped to the F1 key on Windows, and the appropriate key on a Mac. And *everything* in the window has to be covered if it's a single help document for an entire dialog box. And the

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-25 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:35 PM 8/25/2008, David W. Fenton wrote: On 25 Aug 2008 at 15:38, Allen Fisher wrote: What about the help button that's right in dialogs? It should be mapped to the F1 key on Windows, and the appropriate key on a Mac. F1 works for me on Win -- does it not work for you? Aaron.

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-25 Thread David W. Fenton
On 25 Aug 2008 at 17:47, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 05:35 PM 8/25/2008, David W. Fenton wrote: On 25 Aug 2008 at 15:38, Allen Fisher wrote: What about the help button that's right in dialogs? It should be mapped to the F1 key on Windows, and the appropriate key on a Mac. F1 works

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-25 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Johnson, Mark wrote: We are currently conducting a review of all of these materials to determine where gaps exist between user need in understanding and using the software and existing help resources. Our goal is to determine which users do not find the help they need, why, and how these

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-25 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:55 PM 8/25/2008, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: very often. But one thing that I would suggest would be an invaluable aid is to incorporate an expanded version of The Visual Index, now found in the Quick Reference Guide, into the full user documentation. This is already there. When you start up

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-25 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
To my suggestion: incorporate an expanded version of The Visual Index, now found in the Quick Reference Guide, into the full user documentation. Aaron Sherber wrote This is already there. When you start up the help files, Visual Index is the third link down on the right. to which I can

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-25 Thread Carl Dershem
Giz Bowe wrote: At 11:14 AM 8/25/2008, you wrote: I encourage any comments you have, but especially appreciate a description of your most negative experiences with the Finale help resources and perhaps any ideas regarding its improvement. I don't like having to use Internet Explorer to

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-25 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:39 PM 8/25/2008, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: To my suggestion: incorporate an expanded version of The Visual Index, now found in the Quick Reference Guide, into the full user documentation. Aaron Sherber wrote This is already there. When you start up the help files, Visual Index is the