[Finale] Multimeasure rests with undefined length

2009-01-07 Thread Dan Tillberg
Hi all, I have a "free" drum solo in a chart. Free meaning no specific length or over any well defined multiple of a period. If I had written the parts (both other parts and the drum part) by hand I would have drawn a multimeasure rest in one measure and write "Drum solo open" or something like

Re: [Finale] Multimeasure rests with undefined length

2009-01-07 Thread Christopher Smith
The way I usually indicate something like this is to put an entered whole rest in the other parts with a fermata and "(Drum solo)" (no quotes) over it. In the drum part it would be a whole note, changed to Rhythmic Notation staff style, also with a fermata over it and the indication "Open s

[Finale] International Phonetic Alphabet

2009-01-07 Thread David Froom
I'm trying to enter some International Phonetic Alphabet. Nothing fancy, just a couple of pronunciations for some particular words (unusual words) in a song I'm writing. I want to put these in a text box footnote. Mac OSX 10.5.6 I've tried a bunch of things. I can get the IPA symbols in

Re: [Finale] International Phonetic Alphabet

2009-01-07 Thread Allen Fisher
David-- Finale is not unicode compliant. What font are you trying to use? Allen On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:35 PM, David Froom wrote: I'm trying to enter some International Phonetic Alphabet. Nothing fancy, just a couple of pronunciations for some particular words (unusual words) in a song I'm wr

Re: [Finale] International Phonetic Alphabet

2009-01-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
Finale doesn't support Unicode. You need an old-fashioned non-Unicode IPA font. - Darcy - djar...@mac.com Brooklyn, NY On 7 Jan 2009, at 2:35 PM, David Froom wrote: I'm trying to enter some International Phonetic Alphabet. Nothing fancy, just a couple of pronunciations for some part

RE: [Finale] International Phonetic Alphabet

2009-01-07 Thread Richard Yates
Look here: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/fonts.htm >Finale doesn't support Unicode. You need an old-fashioned >non-Unicode IPA font. > >- Darcy >- >djar...@mac.com >Brooklyn, NY > > > > >On 7 Jan 2009, at 2:35 PM, David Froom wrote: > >> I'm trying to enter some International Phoneti

[Finale] Show Active Layer gone in 2K9?

2009-01-07 Thread Colin Broom
Am I just being blind or is the option "Show Active Layer" that used to be located in the view menu now gone from finale 2009? If so, is there an equivalent function now in place? I found it to be really useful when copying notes from a single layer without overwriting other layers in the des

RE: [Finale] Show Active Layer gone in 2K9?

2009-01-07 Thread Colin Broom
Nevermind, I found it, in the documents menu. I could have sworn it wasn't there a minute ago! ;) C. > From: colin_br...@hotmail.com > To: finale@shsu.edu > Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:07:30 + > Subject: [Finale] Show Active Layer gone in 2K9? > > > Am I just being blind or is the option "S

Re: [Finale] Show Active Layer gone in 2K9?

2009-01-07 Thread Ray Horton
Colin Broom wrote: Am I just being blind or is the option "Show Active Layer" that used to be located in the view menu now gone from finale 2009? If so, is there an equivalent function now in place? I found it to be really useful when copying notes from a single layer without overwriting oth

Re: [Finale] Show Active Layer gone in 2K9?

2009-01-07 Thread Ray Horton
"View" makes _much_ more sense, doesn't it? I see no reason to have it under "Document" RBH Colin Broom wrote: Nevermind, I found it, in the documents menu. I could have sworn it wasn't there a minute ago! ;) C. From: colin_br...@hotmail.com To: finale@shsu.edu Date: Thu, 8 Jan 200

RE: [Finale] International Phonetic Alphabet

2009-01-07 Thread kaub001
*sigh* unicode - wouldn't that be loverly? and yes, I already submitted my request to MakeMusic quite some time ago. Richard Yates wrote: > Look here: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/fonts.htm > > > >Finale doesn't support Unicode. You need an old-fashioned > >non-Unicode IPA f

Re: [Finale] Show Active Layer gone in 2K9?

2009-01-07 Thread Allen Fisher
It effects printout, at least that's the justification I was given. On Jan 7, 2009, at 8:38 PM, Ray Horton wrote: "View" makes _much_ more sense, doesn't it? I see no reason to have it under "Document" RBH Colin Broom wrote: Nevermind, I found it, in the documents menu. I could have sw