Re: [Finale] Score Binding Question

2008-08-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:43 PM 8/4/2008, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 4 Aug 2008, at 12:58 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: But in a pinch, an 11x14 score will fit adequately on two regular stands put side by side 11x14 scores fit just fine on a single regular Manhasset stand! I never need two stands. Okay, now

Re: [Finale] Some comments re Fin09

2008-08-01 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:27 PM 8/1/2008, Robert Patterson wrote: On the contrary. They don't object to it. That's hardly the same thing. Show me one user who prefers it. I have to agree with Robert's distinction here. In addition, their lack of objection seems to be based on the fact that these are users who had

Re: [Finale] Some comments re Fin09

2008-08-01 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:56 PM 8/1/2008, Robert Patterson wrote: You actually do have a (smallish) chihuahua in the race. I'm arguing for *no* limit. Right now you are forced to have 4 even if you only need 1. This may seem a small thing, but since you can change the names or even give them meaningful names, how

Re: [Finale] unlinking score and parts

2008-07-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
On Wed, July 30, 2008 9:49 am, dhbailey wrote: Aaron Sherber wrote: In Fin2007 and 2008, there is a staff style called Blank Notation with Rests. (If this is a file you created in an earlier version, you'll need to create the staff style or import it from a library.) Put the cue notes

Re: [Finale] Some comments re Fin09

2008-07-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:27 PM 7/29/2008, David W. Fenton wrote: On 29 Jul 2008 at 7:03, Tyler Turner wrote: The problem is that many people were using staff lists for situations where drag-apply really is much smarter. Then there is likely a user interface flaw that is encouraging them in that direction. This

Re: [Finale] unlinking score and parts

2008-07-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:53 PM 7/29/2008, Ryan Beard wrote: I'm trying to wrap my head around getting things to show in the score only and not in the parts and vice versa. Specifically, I want one text block to show only on the first page of the score and not in the parts. Place the block in the score. In the

Re: [Finale] 2009 User Manual Default Browser

2008-07-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:19 AM 7/28/2008, dhbailey wrote: But that would demand that the help-file staff actually check out the help files in all the most common browser (anybody who's done any reading on web-site design knows that's a must!) to make sure they display adequately in all of them. That would entail

Re: [Finale] 2009 User Manual Default Browser

2008-07-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:12 AM 7/28/2008, dhbailey wrote: Display differently, yes -- but the pages would all work in all the browsers, there wouldn't be any situations where paragraphs run into each other as one long run-on paragraph because of missing end-codes, which might display as perfect paragraphs in IE.

Re: [Finale] Some comments re Fin09

2008-07-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:38 PM 7/28/2008, Eric Dannewitz wrote: This is true. Heaven forbid that MakeMusic would allow that. That would be doing something like supporting the program. I think only that other company, Sibelius, actually would have someone do that. Oh, come on now. This point has been

Re: [Finale] Some comments re Fin09

2008-07-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:36 PM 7/28/2008, Claudio Pompili wrote: What I find sad about this is the mindset/culture at MM, yet again. Testing with clinicians is fine but when contemplating scaling back a feature such as SLs that have been around for a while, wouldn't it have made sense to run it past a bigger group

Re: [Finale] 2009 User Manual Default Browser

2008-07-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:24 PM 7/27/2008, Daniel Wolf wrote: I use a Windows machine for Finale, but avoid using the Internet Explorer browser, in preference to Opera and, sometimes, Firefox. Opera is my default browser for HTML files, and it displays the Finale User Manual fast and well. But when the User Manual

Re: [Finale] Some comments re Fin09

2008-07-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:43 AM 7/27/2008, Bernard Savoie wrote: This limited staff list is a real bummer for me. I just finished a contemporary score for full orchestra where the composer had a lot of performance explanations, often several lines long) for individual instrument groups. To show these indications on

Re: [Finale] 2009 User Manual Default Browser

2008-07-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:36 PM 7/27/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set the default for .chm files to Opera Phil, as I recall, you're still on Finale 2.x or 3.x and therefore don't know how the help files in 2008 and 2009 are delivered. They are, in fact, a series of HTML files, no CHM at all. These HTML files

Re: [Finale] Sibelius is doing it again

2008-07-25 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:31 AM 7/25/2008, dhbailey wrote: One major difference is that Sibelius has several different types of expression text -- there is Technique text and there is Expression text, whereas in Finale it's all grouped together as Text Expressions. In Sibelius it's possible to edit the appearance

Re: [Finale] Some comments re Fin09

2008-07-25 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:51 AM 7/25/2008, Robert Patterson wrote: Here is the next really good thing. Expressions can now be placed in categories, and every expression in that category can have the same settings. I'd like to clarify these points in Robert's excellent post. Expressions now *must* belong to a

Re: [Finale] Finale 2009

2008-07-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:39 PM 7/16/2008, Chuck Israels wrote: I am another committed Speedy Entry user who has attempted using Simple Entry a few times and quickly abandoned it. Tom Johnson told me a couple of years ago that the long term plan was to make Simple have an option that would allow pitch first, then

Re: [Finale] Finale 2009

2008-07-14 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:18 PM 7/14/2008, Eric Dannewitz wrote: I think 2008 still has Speedy Note. It does. I'm surprised they seemed to have dropped Speedy Note Entry from 2009. They have not. It works exactly the same as in 2008. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] No more speedy?

2008-07-14 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:28 PM 7/14/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am dismayed to read that speedy entry has been dropped since this is the method I use for about 98% of the time. Speedy Entry has not been dropped in Finale 2009. This is incorrect information. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] inserting .gif's

2008-07-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:17 AM 7/3/2008, Patrick Sheehan wrote: On Windows Finale '08, is there a way to insert a .gif file at the bottom of a score, within margins? In other words, inserting an image file from your computer, such as a scanned signature? Not a GIF, but you can insert a TIF or EPS. Select the

Re: [Finale] Repeats

2008-06-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:58 AM 6/3/2008, Neal Gittleman wrote: marks the final repeat. The Vibe cue isn't really repeated, so to match what they see in the rest of the part, the ideal thing would be to have the repeats in the Violin and Cello staves but not the Vibe staff. Is there a way to get that -- in effect,

Re: [Finale] OT: writing on PDF files

2008-06-01 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:39 PM 6/1/2008, Ryan Beard wrote: What I want to do is have numbered pages on that final big PDF document. I have a friend who owns InDesign add page numbers for me on a few test books last year, but I can't keep asking favors year after year on 10-15 books I really don't want to purchase

Re: [Finale] assigning multiple text expressions at once

2008-05-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:10 PM 5/13/2008, Paul Hayden wrote: I've been using note-attached Expression Metatools for years but I'd like to know if it's possible to assign a text expression to notes in several different instruments at once (e.g., all the orchestral woodwinds in a given measure). Not as a

RE: [Finale] OT

2008-04-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:46 PM 4/22/2008, John Howell wrote: Please forgive the Latin challenged, but what does that sentence mean? He's looking for a hard copy of the Sibelius manual. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vade_mecum Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Dotted rests spaced too widely in JazzFont

2008-04-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:44 AM 4/13/2008, Christopher Smith wrote: Nope. The NOTES have the dot correctly spaced already, it is only the eighth rests that place it too far. Any others? And does this happen to other people? The setting applies to notes and rests, but I do see what you mean that only dots on

Re: [Finale] Dotted rests spaced too widely in JazzFont

2008-04-12 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:43 PM 4/12/2008, Christopher Smith wrote: Can someone confirm the bug, and if you happen to know, can you point me to the place where I can change this? Document Options | Augmentation Dots | Space between dot and note. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] Copying in 2k8

2008-04-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:38 AM 4/2/2008, Christopher Smith wrote: Cmd-C to copy, then Control-cmd-V on the target measure. THe opt- click method doesn't seem to have a way to paste multiple times. Funny, on Win it's the other way around. Ctrl-Alt-clicking the destination works; Ctrl-Alt-V does not. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] OT: None Finale question for computer buffs

2008-02-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:33 AM 2/20/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand, and experience seems to bear this out, that computers running under WindowsXP will gradually run slower and slower over a period of time. I'm not sure why this would be so, and it certainly has not been my personal experience.

Re: [Finale] Help files

2008-02-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:54 AM 2/18/2008, Christopher Smith wrote: Hmm, I don't know if this is a Mac-specific thing, but I got my help files to open in Firefox by default.  It is a Mac-specific thing. Hopefully it will be fixed on Win in the next release. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] printing to pdf problem

2008-02-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:23 PM 2/11/2008, Chuck Israels wrote: I'm printing to pdf (Mac 10.5.1) from Finale and getting an error screen I've never seen before: Please check the printer's power and interface connections. Also check Chooser for correct printer selection. Guess what: The error message has nothing

Re: [Finale] F2k8: cue notes in parts but not in score?

2008-02-10 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:10 AM 2/10/2008, Raimund Lintzen wrote: is there a way to have cue notes only in parts but not in the score? In the Fin07 and Fin08 default file, there are two new staff style called 'Blank Notation with Rests'. This hides any notes in the measure and replaces them with whole note

Re: [Finale] Counting entries

2008-02-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:27 AM 2/7/2008, Pierre Bailleul wrote: I'm engraving an atonal music score and It's hard to give a page price to my publisher. So do you know a way to count all entries in a file : How about Plugins | Miscellaneous | Count Items? g That will count most of the things in your list, but not

Re: [Finale] FinWin2k6c - How to make articulations apply to different layers in the same bar

2008-02-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:48 AM 2/4/2008, themark wrote: I have one staff with two layers. I need to apply an articulation (let's say the breath comma in this case but it could be the Fermata as well) to the notes of all levels, so I have to select each layer and apply the breath to the desidered note, making the

Re: [Finale] FinWin2k6c - How to make articulations apply to different layers in the same bar

2008-02-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:38 AM 2/4/2008, themark wrote: I say that because when you apply an expression you have the choice to apply it to all layers or to a certain layer only, leaving HP apart. This does not happen with the articulation tool. As I said in my explanation, this is because expressions generally

Re: [Finale] FinWin2k6c - How to make articulations apply to different layers in the same bar

2008-02-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:35 PM 2/4/2008, marcello noia wrote: Thanks for the hint, I did not know about the drag-enclose method, is it mentioned in the manual? Where? In the Fin07 manual, look in the index under Articulations, Applying to a region. I don't have Fin06 on my system, but I imagine it's the same.

Re: [Finale] Accessing Read Only files from disc

2008-02-01 Thread Aaron Sherber
In addition to the other suggestions you've gotten you should also be able to open up the Finale file from your CD, make whatever changes you want, and then do a Save As to save a new copy of the file to your hard drive. Read Only doesn't usually mean that you can't open the file and modify

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

2008-01-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:30 AM 1/30/2008, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Finale blocks access to the Windows taskbar. Clicking on the taskbar or using CTL-ESC to bring up documents doesn't work, nor does ALT-TAB to switch applications. Finale has to be minimized (this is Windows XP SP2) to access other programs. The

Re: [Finale] OT: Boot Camp - Windows questions

2008-01-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:27 AM 1/28/2008, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 28 Jan 2008, at 3:56 AM, dc wrote: As said, you can't uninstall many Windows components, but you can avoid a lot of wasted space by removing certain features: the restoration function, for instance, that uses up more and more room as you go

Re: [Finale] Non-functional Pageformat-setting

2008-01-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:31 PM 1/20/2008, Jari Williamsson wrote: Aaron Sherber wrote: I'll bet that most new versions of most software programs introduce some new bugs in features that used to be fine. This is an ancient way of looking at software development, but for C++-based projects, such as Finale

Re: [Finale] Odd behavior

2008-01-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:25 PM 1/18/2008, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Ok, so I'm about 200 bars into a band piece, it's been playing back just fine with HP. All of the sudden, at a modulation (for whatever that's worth), a strange sound ... almost like a cell phone ringing once, occurs. Any clues? Is your cell phone

Re: [Finale] Upgrade Offer for 2008

2008-01-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:47 PM 1/12/2008, Eric Dannewitz wrote: I still haven't upgraded to Finale 2008, but today in the mail I got a little mailer from MakeMusic, and they are enticing the offer with the inclusion of a FREE Finale T-Shirt.  Not fair! We *early* adopters used to get the t-shirt! I don't think

Re: [Finale] Upgrade Offer for 2008

2008-01-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:27 PM 1/13/2008, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Yes. They need to drop the price. It is like $119 or something. I threw away the flyer. So, since I have two licenses to upgrade, it would be $250 or so (with shipping and stuff). Just curious: Two licenses? You run Finale on 4 machines? Now, if it

Re: [Finale] Meta Tool Question

2008-01-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:33 PM 1/11/2008, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: I'm using FinMac2007. When I want to transpose something, I have been going the long route, i.e., Select a given measureMass EditTranspositionand then work the dialog box to my desired ends. Works fine, but I wanted to try the Meta Tool method to

Re: [Finale] page number offset

2008-01-09 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:18 AM 1/9/2008, dc wrote: Dragoş Oltean écrit: If I write 2/6 (page number of total pages) and I change offset with 1, Finale write 3/6 and the last page 7/6. Why? Because Finale counts the real number of pages. You could add a blank page at the beginning, and remove the offset. But it

Re: [Finale] page number offset

2008-01-09 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:02 PM 1/9/2008, dc wrote: Aaron Sherber écrit: At 11:18 AM 1/9/2008, dc wrote: Because Finale counts the real number of pages. You could add a blank page at the beginning, and remove the offset. But it seems to me that the idea of a page offset is useful if you have, for example, a multi

Re: [Finale] Two easy doubts [Finale 2008]

2008-01-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:48 PM 1/8/2008, Javier Ruiz wrote: How do you convince this new beast [Finale 2008] to select partial measures? Finale 2008 essentially behaves as though Select Partial Measures is always on. So all you have to do is drag with the mouse to grab part of a measure. In the User Manual, look

Re: [Finale] Two easy doubts [Finale 2008]

2008-01-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:59 PM 1/8/2008, Christopher Smith wrote: You can't drag and drop for multiple copies any more. You can if you hold down the modifier keys while you do it. On Windows, if you select select a source and then ctrl-alt-click on the beginning of the target, you get the multiple copies

Re: [Finale] How to copy music more than one time in F2k8

2008-01-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:37 PM 1/3/2008, Raimund Lintzen wrote: How can I copy (a whole measure) several times in F2k8. I miss the db 'Copy measures - How many times' Can't find it in the OLD. Take a look in the Encyclopedia section, under Copying Music. If you hold down Ctrl and Alt as you click on the

RE: [Finale] Help with Easy CD Creator 3.5c CIF File

2007-12-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:13 PM 12/28/2007, David W. Fenton wrote: On 28 Dec 2007 at 20:40, dc wrote: David W. Fenton écrit: - Create backup images of all your irreplaceable live recordings, using standard formats only What is the best standard format to use? I would use ISO format. Perhaps someone has

Re: [Finale] Help with Easy CD Creator 3.5c CIF File

2007-12-26 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:28 PM 12/26/2007, David W. Fenton wrote: I just discovered that some CDs have gone bad and want to recreate them, but all I have is an Easy CD Creator 3.5c CIF image. When I Google on this, I get recommendations that various pieces of software can read CIF files, but none of them that I've

Re: [Finale] importing graphics?

2007-12-24 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:58 AM 12/24/2007, Pierre Bailleul wrote: I create eps files in InDesign and tiff files in Paint. I place graphics in Finale and : Finale dos not support placing LZW compressed tiff files? LZW is a type of lossless compression often used to keep TIFFs a little smaller. As Dennis has

Re: [Finale] Performance notes - text notation excerpts

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:32 PM 12/22/2007, Chuck Israels wrote: What is the best way to create a page of performance notes that includes text instructions and small (one measure) musical excerpts? When I have done this, I've made the excerpts in Finale and used the graphics tool to export them as TIFF or EPS.

RE: [Finale] Performance notes - text notation excerpts

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:56 PM 12/22/2007, Richard Yates wrote: Finale file. There are some limitations of Finale text formatting, That's rather an understatement. g As best as I can tell, Finale does not let you do tabs, adjust paragraph leading, or automatically insert smart (i.e., curly) quotes. And that's

Re: [Finale] Dotted notes preferences?

2007-12-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:19 PM 12/22/2007, Jari Williamsson wrote: Let's say you have these tied note durations: quarter-eight-sixteenth You allowed to use one dotted note - where would you use the dot? To create a dotted quarter or as a dotted eight? Would you use the same rule if were half-quarter-eight

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:32 AM 12/18/2007, Randolph Peters wrote: It would be great if there could be a Staff Style that would automatically place tuplets above the music. This would take care of the majority of tuplets in vocal parts. I know you can change the tuplets in one pass using what used to be called Mass

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:36 AM 12/18/2007, Christopher Smith wrote: On Dec 18, 2007, at 7:41 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: Duplicate dynamics? Why not just place the regular dynamic in the score and then shift-drag it to over the staff? This seems quicker to me than applying a staff style. Because if you have

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:20 AM 12/18/2007, Chuck Israels wrote: Changing defaults affects all staves. Randolph is suggesting a different setting for vocal parts only, in both tuplets and dynamics. Ah, sorry -- I misread his request. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:41 PM 12/18/2007, Randolph Peters wrote: Sorry, I meant that Change tuplets (or Change anything for that matter) is not a choice in the Selection Tool when you invoke the contextual menu. They added other items in 2008, but took this option off. True. It's under the Utilities menu now.

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:19 PM 12/18/2007, Chuck Israels wrote: Randolph, FYI, you can get to the individual tuplet setting by double clicking on the tuplet with the selection tool and then clicking on the highlighted tuplet handle. As I mentioned, you can also get those settings by right-clicking on the tuplet

Re: [Finale] Dotted rhythms GONE

2007-12-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:31 AM 12/13/2007, Christopher Smith wrote: Yeah, when Finale pastes partial measures, it rebeams to the meter. Now that the Selection Tool selects partial measures as part of its normal operation, that means that if you are ever copying partial measures then the target gets rebeamed. I have

Re: [Finale] Dotted rhythms GONE

2007-12-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:26 AM 12/13/2007, Henry E. Howey wrote: I cannot seem to find the setting, but WinFINALE 2008 (and 2008a) have taken upon itself the respomsibility to remove all dotted rhythms and replace them with their subordinate constituents. This occurs diring ALL Insets and MANY Pastes. I can't

Re: [Finale] Desktop versus laptop survey

2007-12-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:29 AM 12/13/2007, Henry E. Howey wrote: I think we need a list survey of laptop versus desktop usage. I use my desktop about 75% of the time -- but more like 95% for Finale. A lot of what I do is transcribing or editing from existing sources, and I need to have my copy holder on my desk

Re: [Finale] Dotted rhythms GONE

2007-12-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:10 PM 12/13/2007, Christopher Smith wrote: as far as I can tell. Backspace on the Mac will delete an item in Finale most of the time, whereas Clear will just clear manual positioning. I assume that by item you mean an expression or smartshape or some such? On Win, Delete deletes the item

Re: [Finale] Question About Proper Notation

2007-12-12 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:38 PM 12/11/2007, David W. Fenton wrote: On 11 Dec 2007 at 23:29, Owain Sutton wrote: We also last night rehearsed the Williams/Brubaker Harry Potter Symphonic Suite which presents a single syncopated 6/8 bar containing three quarters - it follows regularly-pulsed 6/8 bars and

Re: [Finale] lyrics and spacing in 2008

2007-12-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:05 AM 12/11/2007, dc wrote: I also added a comparison of the PDF output at 1600%, which shows that Finale's lines no longer appear as a stack of thiner lines. I'm curious about this. I've seen it discussed here several times, but I haven't paid full attention, because ultimately it

Re: [Finale] Distinguishing Engraver slurs from adjusted slurs?

2007-12-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:55 AM 12/11/2007, shirling neueweise wrote: since 2007 finale updates the layout before printing: check your undo menu after printing. Interesting thought, but nothing interesting in my case. I opened a doc and printed it, and the only thing in the Undo menu was 'Print Score Dialog'.

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008

2007-12-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:32 AM 12/11/2007, Martin Banner wrote: Will I be able to open up my 2003a files in Finale 2008? Yes. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] lyrics and spacing in 2008

2007-12-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:49 AM 12/11/2007, dc wrote: what's happening in other parts. And then that would mean selecting each measure with a melisma, changing the music spacing options, respacing that measure... Incidentally, I put in a feature request last year for music spacing styles which could be applied to

Re: [Finale] lyrics and spacing in 2008

2007-12-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:25 PM 12/11/2007, dc wrote: I've already requested this years ago... But it won't solve the lyrics issue. Did you get any kind of answer? The reply was: The ability to apply music spacing styles, much like Staff Styles, would be a useful feature. I will add this to our list of features

Re: [Finale] Distinguishing Engraver slurs from adjusted slurs?

2007-12-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:06 AM 12/7/2007, Johannes Gebauer wrote: These slurs are indeed rare, but the bug also includes slurs which have their tips crash into the staff lines. I have experienced something which may or may not be tangentially related. In more than one file, I have had the page layout -- that

Re: [Finale] Distinguishing Engraver slurs from adjusted slurs?

2007-12-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:38 PM 12/7/2007, Jari Williamsson wrote: Aaron Sherber wrote: I have experienced something which may or may not be tangentially related. In more than one file, I have had the page layout -- that is, the number of measures in a certain system, and hence the flow of measures across pages

Re: [Finale] Problem with PDF Margins

2007-12-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:59 AM 12/6/2007, dc wrote: I would use if it offered intelligent printing and put the pages in the right order for booklet printing.  As of 2007, Finale can't even manage the right order for manual duplex printing! I have a non-duplexing printer, so I usually print off all the RH

Re: [Finale] 2008 a is up

2007-12-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:55 PM 12/6/2007, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Disappointing. Seems there is no mention of supporting 10.5 on the Mac. You must have missed this, on p.3 of the Readme: New Features in Finale 2008a Compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard. Support for Macintosh OS 10.5 including Spotlight and Quick

Re: [Finale] 2008a Bug List

2007-12-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:15 PM 12/6/2007, Ray Horton wrote: In Speedy: to Go To Next Layer: [shift] doesn't work properly, it skips layers. (That is, layer 1 goes to layer 3, then 1; layer 2 goes to layer 4, then 2). I can't reproduce this in WinFin2008a. It works for me as expected. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] Several questions...

2007-12-05 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:39 AM 12/5/2007, Brennon Bortz wrote: I wish it were possible to search the list archives, Well, with broadband connections it's not that big a deal for most people to grab the text archives of the list from the link at the bottom of this email and search locally. If you keep the files

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:12 AM 12/2/2007, Cecil Rigby wrote: Our church has a CCLI license, and I decided to see if printing to PDF from their site would work. CCLI presents their hymn sheets through Flash, and though I received a message that the player was causing a slowdown of the program, Distiller still

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:19 PM 12/2/2007, dc wrote: Aaron Sherber écrit: It doesn't matter. If you have a PDF app like Acrobat that looks to your system like a printer, anything that lets you print to a printer will also let you print to a PDF. Not in my experience. I once tried to print Scorch files (that offered

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:51 PM 12/2/2007, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Yeah, you can't print Scorch files (like from musicnotes.com) to PDF. So, anything is not quite true. I'm curious about this. Is there somewhere I can try playing with a Scorch file, for a buck or two? Aaron.

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:11 PM 12/2/2007, dc wrote: Aaron Sherber écrit: That would surprise me, but I believe you. I wonder what would happen if you picked a real printer that was set up to print to file. I'd try it out but how do you set a real printer to print to a file? I think you're on Windows, right

RE: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:41 PM 12/2/2007, Richard Yates wrote: There's a $.99 piece on this page:  Okay. Well, that Scorch plugin is pretty smart. The Print to File checkbox is grayed out, and if I choose Adobe PDF as my printer I do get the message that printing to file is not allowed. Same is true if I

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-01 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:07 AM 12/1/2007, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Daniel Wolf wrote: Today (the first of December 2007), I received another tea leaf: for the first time, a bit of advertisement for Finale 2008 from the Finale dealer here in Germany. Compared to my past experience with Finale, this is actually

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-01 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:46 PM 12/1/2007, dhbailey wrote: last-minute emergency purchases. And extra parts for this 3-minute work, parts which we get the 'privilege' of printing? $2.95 each! It's not really an encouragement that Finale's fortunes are being made. Maybe I'm not understanding, but why would you

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-01 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:14 PM 12/1/2007, dhbailey wrote: Aaron Sherber wrote: Maybe I'm not understanding, but why would you pay for extra parts for something like this? Wouldn't you just xerox the original set you bought? Or buy the set and print it to PDF, so that you can make as many originals as you want

Re: [Finale] MacFin2003a question

2007-11-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:21 AM 11/27/2007, Martin Banner wrote: In 4/4 time, in a piano part, I want to have two 1/2 note tremolos (beats 1 and 2, between g and d, and beats 3 and 4, between c and a). How do I create two eighth notes tied, but without the blackened in notes, so they each last two beats each? Would

Re: [Finale] MacFin2003a question

2007-11-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
Whoops -- forgot to add that when you create your tuplet, you'll want to set the number and bracket to not show. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] FinWin 2k6c - default opening of files

2007-11-14 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:07 AM 11/14/2007, themark wrote: I just started to use Fin2006. Surely it has been asked before but how do I set Finale to open default file in page view and not in sequencer view? Program Options | View | New Document Windows. There's a radio button there that lets you choose your

Re: [Finale] TAN: Rests in compound meters

2007-11-12 Thread Aaron Sherber
Thanks to all for your comments on this last week. I'm still not entirely sure what rule I'm going to wind up with, but I appreciate the different viewpoints. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Guido OT

2007-11-09 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:05 PM 11/9/2007, John Howell wrote: At 5:19 PM -0500 11/9/07, Margaret whitby wrote: Twice in recent weeks one of the clues in The National Post (Canada) crossword puzzle has been -- Guido's highest note. In my ignorance I assumed that he was an opera singer that I'd never heard of. I'm

Re: [Finale] Piano reductions (2nd try)

2007-11-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:26 PM 11/8/2007, Herman Gersten wrote: A composer friend wants a piano reduction of a complex 35 page score for 3 orchestras. Page size 11 X 17. Using the piano reduction plug-in, Finale completed the reduction but it was not visible in Page View, only in Studio and Scroll views. I'm

Re: [Finale] Notepad- help!

2007-11-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:58 AM 11/6/2007, keith wrote: A friend of mine, good muso, great clarinettist, has just obtained Finale Notepad. He rang me just now to ask why Notepad wouldn't work in 5/4 time. but surely any commercially produced notation program should work in 5/4- or maybe not!  I believe your

RE: [Finale] Notepad- help!

2007-11-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:34 AM 11/6/2007, George Galway wrote: Since I upgraded Finale to 2008 some of my students have mentioned that they have been unable to open any 2008 files in Notepad. Can you shed any light on this problem? Things seem to work OK whan I use Fin 2005. What version of Notepad are they

[Finale] TAN: Rests in compound meters

2007-11-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, I'm curious as to how you feel about notating sub-beat rests in compound meters. In particular, something like a 6/8 bar with two eighths of silence and an eighth pickup to a dotted quarter on beat 2. Should the rests at the beginning of the bar be two eighth rests, or a quarter

Re: [Finale] mp3

2007-11-05 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:26 AM 11/5/2007, Barbara Touburg wrote: Finale only offers WAV. There's no MP3 option, alas! What happens if you drop down the list next to 'Opslaan als type'? Is MP3 an option there? There used to be a radio button where one could select MP3 or WAV, but it's gone. I don't think

Re: [Finale] Retrograde Tools

2007-10-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:42 AM 10/30/2007, M LAWLOR wrote: [FINALE 2002, Windows XP] Are there any easy ways to create a retrograde (or inverted) copy of a passage? I have looked at the canonic utilities but cannot make any sense of how they work or whether they will do what I want. Select the passage with Mass

Re: [Finale] lost in transposition

2007-10-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:13 PM 10/29/2007, dc wrote: I suppose this is an easy question, but I've never done this, so... How can I get a score (already entered in Finale) to playback a semi-tone lower, without changing the key? You mean you're working on something like a baroque score, and you want everything

Re: [Finale] lost in transposition

2007-10-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:10 PM 10/29/2007, dc wrote: Barbara Touburg écrit: With a pitch bend expression. Perfect! I see there's a transposition effect in the playback. Okay, that's easier than my suggestion. g Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Tuplets

2007-10-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:18 PM 10/27/2007, Ted Horman wrote: I'm using FIN 07 on an XP system. I have used Finale for years. I'm stumped. I need to create an eighth note tuplet with the first note being a quarter and the second an eighth. I can make it with the first note an eighth and the second note a quarter

Re: [Finale] A Sibelius List Now?

2007-10-19 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:36 PM 10/19/2007, David W. Fenton wrote: On 19 Oct 2007 at 12:38, Trent Johnston wrote: Score works on XP but on Vista you need to use DosBox or set up a virtual machine with xp or dos. Um, what? Every version of Windows would require a dos box to run, and every DOS box gets its own

Re: [Finale] My thoughts on Finale v. Sibelius

2007-10-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:29 PM 10/17/2007, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: use substantially equivalent products. As far as I know, it is _not_ standard practice to offer to sell your product to user's of competitive products at half the price you sell the product to your own user base. That's not true. Competitive

Re: [Finale] let's brake out a bottle of Finlandia Vodka...

2007-10-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:34 PM 10/17/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone here actually bought the $99 Sib 5 Competitive Upgrade? Does it give you full Sib 5 functionality? Yes, of course it does. It's the full program, offered at a special price to get Finale users to switch. Does it interact with Finale

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5.1 adds MusicXML 2.0 import

2007-10-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:35 PM 10/17/2007, Randolph Peters wrote: Let me get this straight. Sibelius is offering a free upgrade within a few months of releasing a new version and the upgrade fixes bugs AND extends features? FWIW, the PDF listing changes and bug fixes is 18 pages long. I'm not sure whether to be

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