Re: [Finale] suggestions for amateur composer

2010-02-22 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
kaub...@hawaii.rr.com wrote: What I am looking for advice on is what sort of things should I include in the submission [of proposed choral music], other than the obvious copy of the music? Are there any things I need to watch out for when dealing with publishers? Before the submission of

[Finale] Who used phonetic words?

2010-02-22 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Hi all, Just going over something, and trying to remember which vocal arranger or company (U.S., mid-20th century) printed English lyrics in supposedly singable phonetic format to encourage 'proper' singing sounds. I used to have one of these pieces of sheet music, but can't find it any more.

Re: [Finale] Who used phonetic words?

2010-02-22 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Hi all, Just going over something, and trying to remember which vocal arranger or company (U.S., mid-20th century) printed English lyrics in supposedly singable phonetic format to encourage 'proper' singing sounds. I used to have one of these pieces of sheet music,

Re: [Finale] Who used phonetic words?

2010-02-22 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Mon, February 22, 2010 9:21 am, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: I think it was Fred Waring. That's it! Thank you! Mr. Tone Syllables... just couldn't find it via Google, and it was driving me crazy. All I could think was Dale Warland, and knew that was much too recent. Yes! Thank you! Dennis

Re: [Finale] EPS/PS/TIF/PIC to PDF questions

2010-02-22 Thread Fiskum, Steve
Hello Paul, I've seen this on occasion. It has to do with using a dotted smart shape within a system. These shapes CAN give you the results you are seeing. It's not always a consistent problem. The 3rd system is not using any dotted smart shapes so as you can see there is no problems. As an

Re: [Finale] EPS/PS/TIF/PIC to PDF questions

2010-02-22 Thread Robert Patterson
With Mac 10.5 you can often solve font-related issues by clearing the font cache. (Google the topic and you will find much discussion and suggested solutions.) When I switched to Leopard I had mound of similar sounding problems until I cleared my font cache. If your Finale file contains embedded

Re: [Finale] EPS/PS/TIF/PIC to PDF questions

2010-02-22 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
This happens to me all too often. As Steve says, it can be hunt-and-peck. I've learned to back up to the last good symbol that has a line involved, and delete it. I'd do the 104 rectangle first (assuming the previous page is good). Then the dashed slur. Sometimes just moving them a little gets

[Finale] Best way to do accel.---

2010-02-22 Thread Rich Caldwell
I'm working on a large orchestral score that has a lot of rit. and accel. with a dashed line to the next tempo. There are dozens in this piece of over 40 staves (it's big). I can't use a shape expression, as I'd need to reshape every one of them in the parts (which would then have to be

Re: [Finale] Best way to do accel.---

2010-02-22 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Mon, February 22, 2010 10:38 am, Rich Caldwell wrote: I can't use a shape expression, as I'd need to reshape every one of them in the parts (which would then have to be extracted to separate files). I really prefer not to have to draw each as smart shapes, as I'd end up drawing over 1,000

Re: [Finale] Best way to do accel.---

2010-02-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
Custom smart line. Cheers, - DJA - WEB: http://secretsociety.typepad.com On 22 Feb 2010, at 10:38 AM, Rich Caldwell wrote: I'm working on a large orchestral score that has a lot of rit. and accel. with a dashed line to the next tempo. There are dozens in this piece of over 40 staves

Re: [Finale] Best way to do accel.---

2010-02-22 Thread Rich Caldwell
My question is, how do I get the smart lines in all of the parts? You place it at the top of the score and it will only appear in Flute 1, as it should, but in none of the other parts. If it were a simple matter of copying and pasting from one staff to another afterwards in my parts file that

Re: [Finale] Best way to do accel.---

2010-02-22 Thread SN jef chippewa
Custom smart line. make sure they extend the entire length instead of just on the current page (i.e. work in scroll view) copy to all parts using mass copy filter set only to measure-attached shapes. however, do NOT copy this to parts where smart shapes are present in the measure

Re: [Finale] EPS/PS/TIF/PIC to PDF questions

2010-02-22 Thread Christopher Smith
Remember too, that Smart lines using custom arrowheads do not print to PDF at all, causing errors in the PDF and EPS creation. I think I remember there being issues with rotated text in Smart Lines too, but I can't remember now what it was exactly. Christopher On Mon Feb 22, at MondayFeb

Re: [Finale] Best way to do accel.---

2010-02-22 Thread SN jef chippewa
holy crap that is AWESOME, i realized by accident only today that selecting awhole page of them will align them on individual staves, but didn't know that it would do it across systems as well. very kewl. of course this is most useful when dealing with the problem of custom smart shapes

[Finale] Fretboard size

2010-02-22 Thread Ryan
What's the preferred size for fretboards? System reduction is 85%. (Page size and staff size isn't reduced.) Can I leave the fretboard size at 100% (in the Chords MenuResize Fretboards) or should I bump it up to compensate for the reduced system size? I've never really used fretboards before so

Re: [Finale] Fretboard size

2010-02-22 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Ryan wrote: What's the preferred size for fretboards? System reduction is 85%. (Page size and staff size isn't reduced.) Can I leave the fretboard size at 100% (in the Chords MenuResize Fretboards) or should I bump it up to compensate for the reduced system size? I've never really used

Re: [Finale] Best way to do accel.---

2010-02-22 Thread Rich Caldwell
Thanks. That's what I've done in the past I suppose, but I've never had a project with nearly this many. Can anyone think of any pitfalls to rigging a dummy empty staff for tempo markings and including it in the parts? It seems that would be a hell of a lot easier, especially with this many

Re: [Finale] Best way to do accel.---

2010-02-22 Thread SN jef chippewa
i tihnk the only real prob would be speedy entry, i remember having probs with this in the past. if you don't plan on editing much it won't be a hassle, but you enter and then have to hit return to get to the part staff. it might have to do with the staff order, i seem to remember the

Re: [Finale] Who used phonetic words?

2010-02-22 Thread John Howell
At 9:06 AM -0500 2/22/10, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Hi all, Just going over something, and trying to remember which vocal arranger or company (U.S., mid-20th century) printed English lyrics in supposedly singable phonetic format to encourage 'proper' singing sounds. I used to have one of

Re: [Finale] Who used phonetic words?

2010-02-22 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Mon, February 22, 2010 6:47 pm, John Howell wrote: Yup. It was Fred Waring, and the choral charts published by his company, Shawnee Press. I'm trying to remember what he called them, but it escapes me at the moment. His point (and the way he coached his singers in the Pennsylvanians)

Re: [Finale] Who used phonetic words?

2010-02-22 Thread kaub001
Was that so they would blend? Dennis Bathory-Kitsz bath...@maltedmedia.com wrote: On Mon, February 22, 2010 9:21 am, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: I think it was Fred Waring. That's it! Thank you! Mr. Tone Syllables... just couldn't find it via Google, and it was driving me crazy. All I