Re: [Finale] Technical question

2009-07-13 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Friends, Responding to Carl Dershem, I wrote, in part: I've not been called to do it, but I couldn't resist the challenge, and uploaded my test sample to http://users.waymark.net/mjolnir-dsl/U_gliss.mus I did the sample using the technique I proposed in my first response, using Finale

Re: [Finale] Inverted V glyph

2009-07-13 Thread Eric Fiedler
Have you tried PopChar from ergonis software? It's shareware, not freeware, but I've been using it for years now and it pretty much tells you everything you need to know. Cheers! Eric Habsburger Verlag Frankfurt (Dr. Fiedler)

Re: [Finale] Fonts for text-related items in scores

2009-07-13 Thread dhbailey
Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Mark D Lew wrote: Whether Microsoft allows use of the fonts outside of their software packages that include them, I don't know, but I do know that MS has the right to license them however they choose. The fonts are presumably included in the license for certain

Re: [Finale] Fonts for text-related items in scores

2009-07-13 Thread dhbailey
Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Mark D Lew wrote: Whether Microsoft allows use of the fonts outside of their software packages that include them, I don't know, but I do know that MS has the right to license them however they choose. The fonts are presumably included in the license for certain

Re: [Finale] Inverted V glyph

2009-07-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Eric, Thanks. Okay, having used PopChar, I still cannot find a suitable inverted V character in any of the fonts on my system. Anyone have any ideas? Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net Brooklyn, NY On 13 Jul 2009, at 4:45 AM, Eric Fiedler wrote: Have you tried PopChar from

Re: [Finale] Inverted V glyph

2009-07-13 Thread John Howell
At 11:19 AM -0400 7/13/09, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Eric, Thanks. Okay, having used PopChar, I still cannot find a suitable inverted V character in any of the fonts on my system. Anyone have any ideas? I imagine you've already tried this, but does the inverted-V accent mark in any of

[Finale] Triplet Brackets

2009-07-13 Thread George Ports
How can I get triplet brackets back to 3 in a group instead of 6. I want it to be my default as it was originally. I changed it from 3 to 6 once and now I can't get it back. Any help would surely be appreciated. Am using WinFin 2006b. Thanks, George Ports

Re: [Finale] Inverted V glyph

2009-07-13 Thread Hans Swinnen
Try the Toccata font, capital J Hans === On 13 jul 09, at 17:19, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Eric, Thanks. Okay, having used PopChar, I still cannot find a suitable inverted V character in any of the fonts on my system. Anyone have any ideas? Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net

Re: [Finale] Inverted V glyph

2009-07-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
No. On all of the music fonts I have, the strokes on the inverted V accent are not the same thickness. I finally found what I was looking for in a font called Alien League -- their capital A is actually just an inverted V: http://www.dafont.com/alien-league.font Cheers, - Darcy -

[Finale] RE: Inverted V glyph

2009-07-13 Thread Michael Good
Hi Darcy, I'm looking for a font with a narrow inverted V character -- both strokes must be the same weight, and fairly thin. If you have Sibelius installed on your system, I think that Opus Special Extra has what you are looking for. I believe that this glyph is intended for use as a toe

Re: [Finale] RE: Inverted V glyph

2009-07-13 Thread Barbara Touburg
Michael Good wrote: Hi Darcy, I'm looking for a font with a narrow inverted V character -- both strokes must be the same weight, and fairly thin. If you have Sibelius installed on your system, I think that Opus Special Extra has what you are looking for. I believe that this glyph is

Re: [Finale] Fonts for text-related items in scores

2009-07-13 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jul 13, 2009, at 3:54 AM, dhbailey wrote: That agreement between Microsoft and Ascender may be why the license with Microsoft Office is so restrictive. Wait, wait. So far we have not established that the license *is* restrictive. Someone speculated that it might be, but no one has

Re: [Finale] Fonts for text-related items in scores

2009-07-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 7/13/2009 2:10 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: ClearType is a specific method of type definition*, developed and owned by Microsoft, introduced with Vista. The purpose of ClearType was to enhance screen readability. ... typeface in two different languages, which may have behaved differently in

Re: [Finale] Fonts for text-related items in scores

2009-07-13 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jul 13, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: A minor correction (and I haven't been following this whole discussion): ClearType is not a font programming language or a method of type definition. It is a technology for displaying fonts on digital displays, regardless of whether those

Re: [Finale] Fonts for text-related items in scores

2009-07-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 7/13/2009 2:10 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: ClearType is a specific method of type definition*, developed and owned by Microsoft, introduced with Vista. Also, ClearType was introduced with XP, though I think it may have been off by default. It can be turned on in the Display control panel.

Re: [Finale] Fonts for text-related items in scores

2009-07-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 7/13/2009 2:34 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: Thanks for the correction. But is it not true that to be optimized for ClearType display they must have data in them that the ClearType renderer reads? Did OpenType fonts have this data all along, or is it new? My understanding is that there is no extra

[Finale] Parenthesized trill notes

2009-07-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, As the (incredibly annoying, with no sign of a don't show again button) popup reminder keeps reminding me, TGTools Create Parenthesized Trill Notes plugin does not work with Fin2009 or later. What do you Fin2009 - 2010 use instead? Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net

Re: [Finale] Parenthesized trill notes

2009-07-13 Thread Barbara Touburg
Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi all, As the (incredibly annoying, with no sign of a don't show again button) popup reminder keeps reminding me, TGTools Create Parenthesized Trill Notes plugin does not work with Fin2009 or later. What do you Fin2009 - 2010 use instead? I don't know the answer,

Re: [Finale] Inverted V glyph

2009-07-13 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jul 12, 2009, at 9:11 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Also: is there some kind of freeware font explorer utility for Mac that shows all of the glyphs included in a font and which keystrokes are required to generate them? Find the flag icon in the menu bar, and from its pulldown menu

Re: [Finale] Inverted V glyph

2009-07-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Andrew, I'm aware of both of those and they are both singularly unhelpful. They OS X keyboard viewer does not display all fonts in the pull-down menu — only a tiny subset of those installed on my system. The Character Palette lists all kinds of variations on the LOGICAL AND character

Re: [Finale] Parenthesized trill notes

2009-07-13 Thread Randolph Peters
Darcy James Argue wrote: As the (incredibly annoying, with no sign of a don't show again button) popup reminder keeps reminding me, TGTools Create Parenthesized Trill Notes plugin does not work with Fin2009 or later. What do you Fin2009 - 2010 use instead? The plugin still works despite

Re: [Finale] Inverted V glyph

2009-07-13 Thread Barbara Touburg
Darcy James Argue wrote: The Character Palette lists all kinds of variations on the LOGICAL AND character (which happens to be an inverted V)-- Ah, that rang a bell! WPPhonetic has it. Wood you like me to send it to you off-list? ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Inverted V glyph

2009-07-13 Thread Randolph Peters
Darcy James Argue wrote: They OS X keyboard viewer does not display all fonts in the pull- down menu — only a tiny subset of those installed on my system. The Character Palette lists all kinds of variations on the LOGICAL AND character (which happens to be an inverted V)-- but the vast

Re: [Finale] Inverted V glyph

2009-07-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Randolph, Thanks for the tip, I will check it out. Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net Brooklyn, NY On 13 Jul 2009, at 5:21 PM, Randolph Peters wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: They OS X keyboard viewer does not display all fonts in the pull- down menu — only a tiny subset of

[Finale] PDF tips for Mac 10.5x

2009-07-13 Thread Randolph Peters
Wiggy over at the official forum has posted a helpful tip sheet for those of us who use Mac Leopard and want to make Finale pdfs that can be read by anyone on any system. (Sometimes Acrobat or Windows users have problems reading our pdf files.) www.specialmillwork.com/Finale

Re: [Finale] Inverted V glyph

2009-07-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
HI Barbara, I found a glyph in another font, thanks. Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net Brooklyn, NY On 13 Jul 2009, at 4:59 PM, Barbara Touburg wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: The Character Palette lists all kinds of variations on the LOGICAL AND character (which happens to

Re: [Finale] PDF tips for Mac 10.5x

2009-07-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Randolph, Let me fix that link for you: http://www.specialmillwork.com/Finale%20tips/PDFs_on_MacOSX.pdf Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net Brooklyn, NY On 13 Jul 2009, at 5:42 PM, Randolph Peters wrote: Wiggy over at the official forum has posted a helpful tip sheet for

Re: [Finale] PDF tips for Mac 10.5x

2009-07-13 Thread Randolph Peters
Randolph Peters wrote: Wiggy over at the official forum has posted a helpful tip sheet for those of us who use Mac Leopard and want to make Finale pdfs that can be read by anyone on any system. (Sometimes Acrobat or Windows users have problems reading our pdf files.)

Re: [Finale] Inverted V glyph

2009-07-13 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jul 13, 2009, at 8:19 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Thanks. Okay, having used PopChar, I still cannot find a suitable inverted V character in any of the fonts on my system. Anyone have any ideas? Can't you just use the plain old shift-6 caret in whatever is your lightest font? What

Re: [Finale] Inverted V glyph

2009-07-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Mark, None of those ^ glyphs were tall enough. Again, I found what I needed in a font I found and downloaded called Alien League. Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net Brooklyn, NY On 13 Jul 2009, at 11:10 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: On Jul 13, 2009, at 8:19 AM, Darcy James Argue