[Finale] Crash: Fin2007, Patterson, TGTools

2010-01-26 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, I'm working on an intensive Finale project right now, and I'm noticing something I've never seen before involving frequent Finale crashes. I'm working in WinFin2007 on XP Pro SP3 with the latest Patterson Plugins and TGTools. I'm using TGTools to map F7 to Patterson Mass Copy, so

Re: [Finale] Question on Current Finale Versions Lyrics

2010-01-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 1/22/2010 3:17 AM, Mark D Lew wrote: algorithm looking at the lyric syllables at all. For such a piece, I'd space the entire thing with lyrics unchecked. Then if there are one or two measures where the lyrics collide, go back and respace just those measures with lyrics checked. This brings

Re: [Finale] Question on Current Finale Versions Lyrics

2010-01-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 1/22/2010 9:03 AM, dc wrote: I can only second that request. Is there any place where one can officially do so? Well, you can submit something to the support people through http://makemusic.custhelp.com My feature request was made in January 2007; the reference number is 070322-041052.

Re: [Finale] Open Recent

2010-01-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 1/15/2010 10:19 AM, Mark McCarron wrote: I wish I could clear some of the files from the open recent list. Is there a way to do this? Sure -- open a bunch of new files and the old ones will drop off the list. g No, seriously, you can control the number of files which appear in this

Re: [Finale] Sibelius crossgrade price $129

2010-01-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 1/11/2010 6:38 AM, dhbailey wrote: You don't lose the functionality of any Finale version you have installed on your computer, and as long as you send an older version's installation CD you lose absolutely nothing from your current version, including the ability to reinstall it if you need

Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic

2009-12-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 12/28/2009 1:45 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: How? In Mac OS9 there was a wonderful little freeware utility called Print2Pict that would make a pict (or TIFF or GIF) out of a pdf file or anything else, but I know of nothing equivalent under OSX. I now find myself in need of importing whole pdf

Re: [Finale] finale - indesign (workflow considerations)

2009-12-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 12/22/2009 6:18 AM, SN jef chippewa wrote: aaron, i wasn't able to do this, i even made sure to check it with a font that is defined tonever be embedded in my acrobat distiller settings. I think you mean always embedded, right? Also, this would only come into play with PDF, since EPS

Re: [Finale] finale - indesign (workflow considerations)

2009-12-19 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 12/19/2009 3:08 PM, SN jef chippewa wrote: (freehand, or something similar, i believe). is there a way to export from finale so that the text is editable using indesign (or illustrator)? or am i stuck masking it or erasing it in the graphics programme? Well, if you make PDFs of your

Re: [Finale] finale - indesign (workflow considerations)

2009-12-19 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 12/19/2009 3:56 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: Well, if you make PDFs of your Finale examples instead of EPS, and make sure that your PDF settings include all fonts, you can later open the PDF in Illustrator and edit the text. PDFs can also be placed in InDesign as links. Actually, it looks like

Re: [Finale] scale page vs. scale system

2009-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 12/17/2009 8:00 PM, SN jef chippewa wrote: 1) anyone feels there is some advantages of using one over the other as a default for the file I initially used page scaling, but some years back I changed to system scaling. There was a discussion about it here, and some people (Johannes?

Re: [Finale] scale page vs. scale system

2009-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 12/18/2009 8:09 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: Aaron, may I ask, then, are you happy with microscopic rehearsal letters and tempo changes in your scores? Once the score sizing gets down to 60% or so (not at all unusual in an orchestra score) then all these items are illegible. For the type of

Re: [Finale] nudge different according to view percent

2009-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 12/18/2009 11:21 AM, SN jef chippewa wrote: REALLY!? you mean when you are dealing with the look of the score you think it is better to change view percentages? It's funny, my instinct is to agree with Richard, but I think I've just been well trained by Finale. In layout programs like

Re: [Finale] scale page vs. scale system

2009-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 12/18/2009 11:43 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: The only time I've ever used page scaling was in scores for a visually challenged individual. I took a score originally sized about 5 1/2 x 8, and scaled it up 200 percent using page scaling, and printed the resulting score on 11 x 17 paper, with

Re: [Finale] Mass Edit

2009-11-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 11/7/2009 8:10 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: Fin Mac 2007. In previous versions of Finale I could COPY and then use a shortcut (COMMAND SHIFT) to Paste into the designated measures. I believe it's now just Command-Click. Take a look in the manual on the first page of the Mass Edit Tool

Re: [Finale] Mass Edit

2009-11-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 11/7/2009 8:33 AM, J D Thomas wrote: Hmm. I always thought (and used) Option-shift. Well, whatever it used to be on the Mac side, try leaving out the shift key in 2007+. That's what happened on Win. Or check the manual. Aaron. ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] OT: Dies Irae

2009-10-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
It may not be as classical as you intend, but the Dies Irae figures prominently throughout the score of Sweeney Todd. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Archives Down?

2009-10-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 10/22/2009 1:35 PM, Ryan Beard wrote: Hi, I can't log onto the archives web page. Can someone write to me off list and confirm that the archives are down and that it's not a problem on my end? The archives appear to be fine. Aaron. ___ Finale

[Finale] Darcy! On NPR!

2009-10-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113726352 Congrats! Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Piano Duet Layout

2009-10-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 10/11/2009 2:28 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 11 Oct 2009 at 12:15, Randolph Peters wrote: One quibble: the bother of having to go to PDFs and interlacing pales in comparison to the hassle (among other things) of the method listed above. Just drag and drop the PDF pages into the sidebar

Re: [Finale] The Finale nail in the coffin

2009-10-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 10/3/2009 12:38 AM, Michael Greensill wrote: Now I know I don't have to upgrade every time but they always reel you in with something that can't have taken much effort to program, like chord symbols being attached to beats in 2010. But should they charge $100 for that feature. And half the

Re: [Finale] The Finale nail in the coffin

2009-10-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 10/3/2009 8:34 AM, dhbailey wrote: I would definitely object to a subscription model, since that implies that if one wishes to stop subscribing then the software will stop working as of whatever date the current subscription runs out. That's not what software subscription implies, in my

Re: [Finale] The Finale nail in the coffin

2009-10-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 10/3/2009 5:24 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: If Finale were a subscription program, would I be paying every year to keep using Finale 2003? Would I pay less each year to keep using it? Or would I not have to pay anything unless I wanted the current version? I answered this in my previous

Re: [Finale] The Finale nail in the coffin

2009-10-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 10/2/2009 2:22 PM, dhbailey wrote: Secondly, it's important that we all remember that MakeMusic has never forced anybody to upgrade. At least as far as I know, they've never put a gun to anybody's head and said Buy this upgrade for $100 or I'll blow your head off. They have forced people who

Re: [Finale] Trill to notes in Finale 2010?

2009-09-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 9/30/2009 8:43 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: Hmm, I use Bill Duncan's Finale Productivity fonts, which contain parenthesised noteheads with and without sharps, flats and naturals, The Engraver font contains the same characters. I guess you could define your own artculations with them. As

Re: [Finale] Tempo Detection in Audacity

2009-09-26 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 9/26/2009 4:11 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Or am I stuck doing this manually (ugh!)? I know this isn't what you were asking, but why is doing it manually so tough? If you have a stopwatch and Excel, you can get the metronome timings just by counting off a few beats and plugging the

Re: [Finale] harp pedal diagram

2009-09-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 9/11/2009 9:48 PM, toronado...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone use the engraver text fonts to do graphical harp pedal diagrams? (O, shift -O, P, shift -P) A much better solution is Matthew Hindson's freeware Harp Pedal font: http://www.hindson.com.au/wordpress/free-fonts-available-for-download/

Re: [Finale] More problems staff styles....no names

2009-08-26 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 8/26/2009 2:41 AM, terry cano wrote: I was able to get a part to extract but the Inst name doesn't appear on the extracted part...it is in the Staff (Full and Abrv) on the score In 2008, the instrument name doesn't get automatically copied from the staff when you extract a part. You need

Re: [Finale] Somewhat OT: How marked-up can/should rental parts be?

2009-08-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 8/20/2009 6:43 PM, Daniel Wolf wrote: bargaining position vis a vis the publishers.) But the most immediate concern is that I just got a set of parts returned from a major European radio orchestra. They are completely marked-up, with bowings and much more. Should the orchestra have cleaned

Re: [Finale] Re: jazz articulations

2009-07-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 7/28/2009 12:56 PM, toronado...@gmail.com wrote: Whoa! Sorry about the multiple posts! I only sent once. You're fine -- only one came through. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

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

2009-07-14 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 7/14/2009 3:30 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: In any way that ordinary users use fonts, I'm not sure it's even possible to use the fonts when the software isn't running. Since the EULA comes with MS Office, I think the question is what the user is allowed to to when *Office* isn't running, not when

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 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

Re: [Finale] Linked parts--yes or no?

2009-07-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 7/3/2009 11:32 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: There IS new material to learn. Extracted parts have to go through the same new part creation process that linked parts do. If you use the Setup Wizard, most of the work is done for you, but if you open a pre-2007 file in 2007 or later, you have to

Re: [Finale] Can't make PDFs from Finale 2k9 Mac

2009-06-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 6/18/2009 9:11 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: very small jobs. Do I now have to get 2k10 to get this fixed? If that is the case Sibelius is becoming a very likely option. I am certainly not going to feed the folks at MM for their ridiculous bugs. I agree that this is an unfortunate side effect

Re: [Finale] Re: Fin2010 announced

2009-05-31 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 5/31/2009 8:43 PM, John Howell wrote: I fully realize that different people have different ways of working, but I find this particular argument (duration before pitch or pitch before duration) rather amusing. In hand copying (remember doing THAT, anyone?!!), you do both simultaneously,

Re: [Finale] Re: Fin2010 announced

2009-05-31 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 5/31/2009 9:39 PM, John Howell wrote: Hi, Aaron. Not meaning to be picky, but you're breaking a single integrated action up into two distinct actions (which is what Finale, Sibelius, and Mosaic all do). When I move my hand I already know both the pitch and the duration I'm going to write,

Re: [Finale] Re: Fin2010 announced

2009-05-31 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 5/31/2009 9:48 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: Sure you can. I do it all the time. It's a great way to compose, actually, writing the rhythms and maybe an approximate contour, then go back and choose the pitches. I can only do it with a pencil, though (so far!) But I think you two are talking

Re: [Finale] Re: Fin2010 announced

2009-05-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 5/30/2009 12:22 AM, Ralph Whitfield wrote: I'll spring for it just for the rehearsal marks and percussion updates. This has been my attitude for several years with Finale. Of course, we'd all like to see updates that get us really excited about a host of new features and bugfixes and

Re: [Finale] End point of Smart Slur glissandi and accidentals

2009-05-26 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 5/26/2009 8:09 AM, Chuck Israels wrote: As far as I know, the shapes are not that smart. I do it by hand. I am also eager to know if there's an automated solution. TGTools has a wonderful function to adjust the ends of glissandi for accidentals (Modify | Shift). So my base settings

Re: [Finale] 2K7 woes

2009-05-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 5/17/2009 10:30 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: believe that Finale would not create multi-measure rests automaticallyso, what am I failing to do before I extract my parts? It depends a bit on what your workflow is. If you want MM rests created automatically, you need to go to Document

Re: [Finale] 2K7 question

2009-04-05 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 4/5/2009 6:23 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: that I created while using 2K4c. Does this change anything with regard to making parts with instrument labels the default behavior now that I am using 2K7? Yes. As I indicated, instrument labels will only be generated in extracted (or linked)

Re: [Finale] 2K7 question

2009-04-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 4/4/2009 11:48 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: When I extract parts in 2K7, I do not see the staff name on the extracted part. For example: Trumpet 1 in Bb Christopher Smith gave you some answers having to do with linked parts, which were introduced in 2007. If you want to go the

Re: [Finale] controlling the Selection Tool

2009-03-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 3/22/2009 12:22 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Is there some trick I am missing having to do with how to control Selection Tool behavior? When I am doing editing work that involves a lot of moving elements selected with the tool, the dialog box associated with the expression (for instance) will

Re: [Finale] create mp3 files!

2009-03-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 3/20/2009 7:35 AM, Rod McDonald wrote: 'Save As' only allows me to save as midi file while 'export to Audio' only allows me to save as a .wav file. I seem unable to save as mp3. No 'Save as Audio' option!!! You said you were on WinFin2009b. The process there is File | Export to Audio

Re: [Finale] create mp3 files!

2009-03-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 3/20/2009 7:35 AM, Rod McDonald wrote: allows me to save as a .wav file. I seem unable to save as mp3. No 'Save as Audio' option!!! Guess midi will have to do! Of course, you could also save as a WAV and convert to MP3 with any number of free utilities. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] Garritan on old files

2009-03-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 3/20/2009 10:51 AM, Richard Huggins wrote: I was excited to hear the much-improved orchestral sounds of Finale 2009. I opened an old file so I cold hear it with these sounds, but instead the old sounds were heard. How do I achieve playback using the Garritan sounds that shipped with '09? If

Re: [Finale] create mp3 files!

2009-03-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 3/20/2009 3:20 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: iTunes is quick and easy for audio format conversions, but for mass conversions I use Max, a free utility that gives more options. iTunes is generally considered not to be a particularly good quality MP3 converter. In general, LAME is

Re: [Finale] Default document

2009-03-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 3/15/2009 4:42 PM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: How did you do that? The help folder contains a large number of .htm and image files. Is there a User Manual in pdf separate from the help system? The Finale help system was changed in Finale 2008. Earlier versions have a manual in PDF form; the

Re: [Finale] so simple - so strangely missing

2009-03-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 3/8/2009 1:34 PM, Katherine Hoover wrote: 1. I wish to delete some finale files. Simple, eh? Moved them to trash singly. Wouldn't go in. Moved them to trash as a group. No dice. Dragged one to desktop to try from there - it made a new copy. Well, this isn't a

Re: [Finale] Finaletips site?

2009-02-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 2/23/2009 7:20 PM, David McKay wrote: Googling Finale tips I found http://www.jameskass.com/finale/finale_tips.html http://www.hindson.com.au/wordpress/2005/07/11/10-assorted-finale-tips/ http://home.swipnet.se/~w-52653/Finale/ The last of these is Jari's site, to which Johannes was

Re: [Finale] Editing

2009-02-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 2/13/2009 11:57 AM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: I just made a recording of a choir rehearsal last night with my H2 digital. I recorded in the MP3 mode. It is possible to edit said files (other than just splitting a file on the H2) once they are uploaded to my Mac? I believe that most audio

Re: [Finale] Editing

2009-02-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 2/13/2009 4:19 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 13 Feb 2009, at 4:02 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: Hmm. I was unaware that there were mainstream apps that could edit MP3s natively. There certainly are. You can open an MP3 in QuickTime Player and edit it directly there without converting

Re: [Finale] Editing

2009-02-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 2/13/2009 5:25 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Instead, my first suggestion would be to use an editing application that operates on the original MP3 file and does not require you to re- encode -- which, as far as I know, is what is happening with the app I use (Fission). I don't believe that

Re: [Finale] Editing

2009-02-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 2/13/2009 6:15 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: These are, in fact, the only kinds of edits Fission allows (cut paste, normalization and fades), Ah, interesting. Lee, can you comment on this? Is it true that these kinds of edits can be made to an MP3 without needing to recode afterwards? (It

Re: [Finale] Editing

2009-02-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
I'm going to preface all of this by saying that I'm always happy to be proved wrong in things like this. On 2/13/2009 7:22 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: The usual method is to have, say, a 15% compression ratio. When you open a file, your graphics editing progam knows what the compression ratio

Re: [Finale] Editing

2009-02-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 2/13/2009 7:37 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I don't think this is correct, Aaron. When you edit the MP3, you aren't editing the original data, but a waveform that is result of expanding the data from the MP3 file. If you save that waveform to exactly the same bitrate as the original source MP3,

Re: [Finale] Editing

2009-02-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 2/13/2009 8:08 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: They don't display the information, but PSP, at least (which is what I use for all my graphics editing -- I can't stand the GIMP), does not continue to compress the file beyond its current compression ration. Except that I don't think PSP has any

Re: [Finale] Editing

2009-02-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 2/13/2009 9:12 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: It doesn't actually need to. Once the file is open, it's an uncompressed bitmap, with 100% of the information that the original file contains. As long as the save uses the same compression ratio, the result should be, for all intents and purposes,

Re: [Finale] Editing

2009-02-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 2/13/2009 8:29 PM, Richard Yates wrote: I have heard the first theory and decided to test it. I opened a high resolution photo in Photoshop and saved it with the maximum compression as a jpg. Then reopened it and saved again with maximum compression. After repeating this seven times I can see

Re: [Finale] (no subject)

2009-02-12 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 2/12/2009 7:31 PM, Katherine Hoover wrote: 1. In Finale 2000 and before, I could hit say a quarter note with the 4 key (on a Mac) and it would turn into an 8th. My Finale 2004 will not do this. I have to erase and do over. Is there a way to reset this? You don't say what

Re: [Finale] Hiding Notes and Rest

2009-01-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 1/30/2009 5:12 PM, David Rhodes wrote: In Finale 2k9b when I try to hide notes or rest with the plug-in or H key it only dims them.. I attach Chord Symbols to rest and then hide them to leave the symbols to use as guides. The earlier versions completly hid rest until you revealed them

Re: [Finale] Full measure rests

2008-12-26 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:28 AM 12/26/2008, Johannes Gebauer wrote: There are a lot of things for which this is true. I sent in a feature request a few years ago for something like staff styles that could be used for note spacing. (I had a piece that went along nicely in 4/4 and 3/4 and then had a section in very

Re: [Finale] Full measure rests

2008-12-25 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:38 AM 12/25/2008, Robert Patterson wrote: As for centering double wholes, I don't know a great way. A not-so-painful workaround would be to turn off Display Whole Rests in Empty Bars (using a staff style if need be) in the 4/2 passage. Then apply the double-whole rest as an expression in

Re: [Finale] Full measure rests

2008-12-25 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:06 PM 12/25/2008, Aaron Sherber wrote: TGTools! Modify | | Shift Rests. That should be Modify | Rests | Shift Rests, of course. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Full measure rests

2008-12-25 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:52 PM 12/25/2008, Robert Patterson wrote: Do the rests retain their positioning in the parts if you use TGTools? Sadly, no. TGTools appears to figure out how wide the measure is and apply an EVPU offset to the rest. The offset is the same in score and parts, so if there are different

Re: [Finale] Full measure rests

2008-12-25 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:46 PM 12/25/2008, David W. Fenton wrote: It would be nice if this were something you change in staff styles. There are a lot of things for which this is true. I sent in a feature request a few years ago for something like staff styles that could be used for note spacing. (I had a piece

[Finale] O.T. Professional MP3 players

2008-11-14 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, I thought I might tap the collective expertise of this list on a different topic. I have a need for an iPod-like portable music player with the following requirements: 1. Hard-drive based (not flash) 2. Must support WAV playback 3. Must have a single-track mode, like CD players 4.

Re: [Finale] O.T. Professional MP3 players

2008-11-14 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:49 PM 11/14/2008, Darcy James Argue wrote: Do you mean the ability to play a single track once and then stop? The iPod has that, too. Yes, I do mean that. I have been unable to find this on my Nano 3G, and I've also seen it discussed elsewhere as a shortcoming of the iPod. If you have

Re: [Finale] O.T. Professional MP3 players

2008-11-14 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:14 PM 11/14/2008, Darcy James Argue wrote: My recollection was that if you chose a song from the Song menu instead of the Album menu, it would stop after one song, but I just tried that now and it seems I was mistaken. You do actually need to set up a playlist for each song in order to do

Re: [Finale] getting rid of bar lines

2008-11-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:43 PM 11/3/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone know how to get rid of bar lines?  Go to a less crowded bar. (Or use the Measure Tool to set the barline style on a single bar or small group of bars to Invisible. Or set the staff attributes to not display barlines, to suppress

Re: [Finale] Fonts

2008-10-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:02 AM 10/29/2008, Lawrence David Eden wrote: What are Font Annotation Files and what do they do? Basically, they describe the bounding box of characters in a font, so that Finale can allot the proper amount of space for collision avoidance of text expressions and articulations. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] Selecting Partial Measures (Stupid Question)

2008-10-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:12 PM 10/18/2008, Neal Gittleman wrote: In the old days I was accustomed to selecting partial measures just by clicking and dragging the mouse. Now the click highlights the entire bar Start your click-drag outside the staff, slightly above or below it. The entire measure will only be

Re: [Finale] sending parts via email

2008-10-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:03 AM 10/15/2008, Lawrence David Eden wrote: To clarify: I am on a Mac running OS X. The client is on a PC. I have Stuffit and can ZIP the files. You can also create a zip file right from the Finder (is it still called that?), as others have pointed out. I think it's caleld creating

Re: [Finale] sending parts via email

2008-10-14 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:02 PM 10/14/2008, Lawrence David Eden wrote: My question is: Can I send all 40 parts in 1 large mailing, or do I need to send each part separately? You should be able to send them all together. I know how to do the latter, but if I can send them in a bulk mailing, I need directions.

Re: [Finale] Transposing from percussion clef

2008-10-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:22 AM 10/13/2008, Dana Friedman wrote: it before, but had never used it. Thanks. However, this particular rendition of the score is ONLY for playback/recording to an MP3. I don't care if it's a little messy, as I'm not touching the original :). Once the MP3's made, this version of the score

Re: [Finale] Transposing from percussion clef

2008-10-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:16 AM 10/13/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: consistently the same, then the simplest solution is to copy the percussion staff to a scratch staff that is NOT a percussion staff, transpose the notes on that staff using Mass Edit/Selection Tool, then copy it back to the percussion staff.  Or,

Re: [Finale] Transposing from percussion clef

2008-10-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:54 AM 10/13/2008, dhbailey wrote: Actually they won't work properly, because percussion maps require that each line/space which is used be defined properly for playback AND they be selected to be included in that percussion map. simply putting the note on the new line or space will do

Re: [Finale] Fin08 changes

2008-10-12 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:46 PM 10/12/2008, Robert Patterson wrote: I finally graduated to using Fin08 for all my new work, and I am now greatly missing the old Mass Mover metatools. Is there any way to assign metatools to transpositions and also to viewing elapsed time? Look in the help file, encyclopedia section,

Re: [Finale] Transposing from percussion clef

2008-10-12 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:48 PM 10/12/2008, Dana Friedman @ Dragonfly Technologies wrote: trying to get particular phrases on particular drums. The new patch I'm using requires placement a third below where it is now. I used the selection tool, transposed down a third, and it didn't move. I tried diatonic, I tried

Re: [Finale] measure number question

2008-10-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:31 PM 10/6/2008, Lawrence David Eden wrote: I am doing a transcription that needs a special measure number. The situation is this: I have measure 108 and I need to add measure 108a as a safety vamp during the show. How is this done? I want the measure numbers to begin again at measure

Re: [Finale] measure number question

2008-10-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
Ah, I missed the Prefix and Suffix boxes, right there in front of my face. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: Comb binding supplies

2008-09-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
Thanks for the comb info, Andrew. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] OT: Comb binding supplies

2008-09-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, I have some parts I inherited which are bound with 23-ring plastic combs, and I need to rebind them. Does anybody know a good place to order these combs? Even 21-ring combs would be preferable to the 19-ring combs I have. (Google was not particularly helpful.) Thanks, Aaron.

Re: [Finale] OT: Comb binding supplies

2008-09-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:24 AM 9/7/2008, Chuck Israels wrote: Are you talking about the length of the coils? I just found a local duplication place here in little Bellingham that has ordered some 15 coils for me from a supplier in Seattle. I didn't think to ask the name of the Seattle supplier (I like to support

Re: [Finale] Fin/Mac 2008 measurement unit/EVPU location

2008-09-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:30 PM 9/7/2008, mystrom1 wrote: Where do I find the command to change to evpus? I looked in the table of contents, it kind of leads me to the edit menu, but I dont see anything when I pull down on the edit menu. Edit | Measurement Units Aaron.

Re: [Finale] OT: Comb binding supplies

2008-09-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:55 PM 9/7/2008, Andrew Stiller wrote: I get my long combs from the Spiral Binding Co., Totowa NJ, www.spiralbinding.com, phone 973-256-0666. They will cut combs to just about any length you like, but since there is a surcharge for every cut, I find it considerably cheaper to buy them

[Finale] Repeat wing styles

2008-09-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, Repeat wing style is set in document options (none, curved, single, double). Is there any way to override this choice for one linked part? I've got a score with the 'none' style selected, but for the drum part, I want curved. I know I can just extract the drum part and change the

Re: [Finale] Repeat wing styles

2008-09-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:29 PM 9/4/2008, Christopher Smith wrote: You can fake it, though, using a measure-attached expression. I believe the wings are actual characters, Oh, would that this were true! And it does sort of look like they're just characters added on to the regular repeat, but I don't see the chars

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:53 AM 8/28/2008, shirling neueweise wrote: on the finalemusic.com downloads page i can't select the version (menu is visible but not accessible) and the search for finale updates doesn't seem to work. i also can't log in as an existing online customer. is their site jammed? just checked

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:24 AM 8/28/2008, shirling neueweise wrote: for e.g. i get to the login page, type in username/pass hit go and it starts to go and hangs. a few minutes later i get a server too busy message. You mean http://finalemusic.com/store/login.aspx?t=myaccount.aspx ? It worked for me both last

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

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 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 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

Re: [Finale] TAN: Wireless hi-fi

2008-08-21 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:24 PM 8/21/2008, Phil Daley wrote: I have a receiver with wires running to the speakers. Is it possible to replace the wires with a transmitter/receiver package that would allow one to move speakers anywhere without running wires? Well, there are wireless speakers. Basically, these are

Re: [Finale] Score staff separators

2008-08-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
On Fri, August 15, 2008 11:10 pm, Craig Parmerlee wrote: At some point, I think it is fair put some responsibility on the software designers. If there is a property that hides or shows a text object on a linked part, that property should be accessible in the context menu (right click), as

Re: [Finale] 4/4 vs. Common Time

2008-08-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
On Wed, August 13, 2008 7:45 pm, Blake Richardson wrote: Is there any way to change the default from C to 4/4? You don't say what version of Finale you're using, but open the Document Options dialog and look under Time Signatures. Uncheck the box at the top that says Abbreviate common time to.

Re: [Finale] Translation help needed: French to english

2008-08-05 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:42 PM 8/5/2008, Darcy James Argue wrote: 1. leave it in French (cuivré) The English would be brassy, but Darcy is right that the French term is commonly used and understood. 5. div. by desk, although probably just div. is fine. Au contraire! div. by itself usually implies division

Re: [Finale] Score Binding Question

2008-08-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:41 PM 8/4/2008, John Howell wrote: Hi, Richard. Do you mean legal size? 8.5 x 14? A double spread in that case would be 14 x 17, not 11 x 14. Or maybe I'm just confused. I think Richard is talking about an 11x14 page size, not spread size. This is what I use for most of my large

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