Re: [Finale] Layoffs and reorganization announced at MakeMusic

2013-11-20 Thread Richard Yates
he term "double-down" may inadvertently be close to the truth: "to engage in risky behavior, especially when one is already in a dangerous situation." Richard Yates > The author(s) must have studied at the federal government school of copywriting. > Anne Erickson > O

Re: [Finale] Layoffs and reorganization announced at MakeMusic

2013-11-20 Thread Richard Yates
"Doubling down"? "others take software development for granted"? Is it supposed to be a great relief that Finale is there to give my "music a clear path to tomorrow"? It's laughable. Richard Yates > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.

Re: [Finale] What will be the state of notation products by 2016?

2013-09-17 Thread Richard Yates
>If I had a dollar for every vaporware announcement that never saw the > light of day, I would be a rich man. I would be happy to forward to the list, without charge, my unending, monthly, robot-generated, unsubscribable-from email announcements about Igor :-) ___

Re: [Finale] Playback Weird Behavior Playing a Semitone Lower

2013-05-09 Thread Richard Yates
Probably time to upgrade from that 1720 version of Finale (the 'Handel Edition') :-> > Hello, I'm in a muddle trying to find out how to avoid a peculiar, weird behavior Finale > is adopting. > I've got some staves playing back a semitone lower than how they should be > performed and no transposi

[Finale] Hummingbird

2013-04-27 Thread Richard Yates
Anyone seen this: http://www.hummingbirdnotation.com/ My first reaction is that, regardless of any merit, there is about zero chance of such an initiative succeeding, but to even attempt it is interesting. Shape-note, anyone? Richard Yates

Re: [Finale] MIDI woes

2013-03-27 Thread Richard Yates
hought midi input cards had gone out with Culture > Club? > > Raymond Horton > Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra > Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) UMC Composer, Arranger VISIT US AT > rayhortonmusic.com > > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Richard Yates >

Re: [Finale] MIDI woes

2013-03-27 Thread Richard Yates
the tuba either!). So, I continue to use an ancient Casio (I found the initials 'W.A.M.' scratched in the bottom by some vandal) that has its own small amp and speakers built in. Richard Yates > Chuck Israels: > I don't believe that latency is a built in problem with

Re: [Finale] OT: Playing all mp3s on a page

2013-02-26 Thread Richard Yates
And then add this line to your html: Play all files > For example, the following text (saved as 'eventide-all.m3u') plays all 8 mp3 > files of > the movements of my piece "Eventide": > > > http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/music/mp3/newcentury/eventide-1.mp3 > http://maltedmedia.com/people

Re: [Finale] OT: Playing all mp3s on a page

2013-02-26 Thread Richard Yates
://jplayer.org/ Out of curiosity I looked at the source code for an amazon.com page that pops up when you select 'play all' on an CD page. The source code is 8000 lines long! Richard Yates > I'm going to have a web page with many mp3s. What do I create and embed that > wo

Re: [Finale] Sibelius Core Team Now at Steinberg, Building New Notation Tool

2013-02-21 Thread Richard Yates
en I am optimistic (Now, if he could only get me off the Igor Noteheads mailing list, then he would be a true hero!) Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] switching between Finale and other app causes "stuck" MIDI note(s) in speedy

2013-02-19 Thread Richard Yates
> Funny that you're asking these questions in the Mac forum. ?? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Layout bug

2012-11-30 Thread Richard Yates
May be something about that multi-measure rest. An experiment to try would be to make it fewer measures and see if that changes things. Not that it would make a solution obvious but it may narrow down the problem. > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...

Re: [Finale] Including slash in a part name

2012-09-30 Thread Richard Yates
> There is a character typed on a Mac with opt-sh-1 ⁄ (there's one) that is > actually a > fraction slash, which gets written into part names. Only the slash under the > question mark / (there's one) called a solidus I think, causes problems in > PDFs. So > use the fraction slash (opt-sh-1) in

Re: [Finale] 2nd Quarter 2012 results

2012-08-21 Thread Richard Yates
> Refresh my memory -- metatools are key combinations that work from any tool in > the program? Or do you have to be in the tool for which the metatool was > programmed? So if I define a metatool for the Measure tool and then try to use it > while the Staff tool is active, will it work as I defin

Re: [Finale] 2nd Quarter 2012 results

2012-08-21 Thread Richard Yates
Plus the keyboard remapping in TGTools. I've had all the function keys programmed with TGTools for so long I had to double-check to make sure I was doing it that way. Seems a normal part of the program for me now. > huh? you mean like metatools? i.e. 35+ "slots" for user-defined shortcuts in eac

Re: [Finale] TGTOOLS in 2012b

2012-07-04 Thread Richard Yates
I could not work without TGTools. And, the uncertainty that I read here about its functioning in later Finale versions is a big factor in why I have not upgraded for a while. Richard Yates > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Beh

Re: [Finale] suggestions sought

2012-04-22 Thread Richard Yates
How much do you need? http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digital-DataTraveler-DTR500-128GB/dp/B004X3XI R2 > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of > Eric Dannewitz > Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 9:17 PM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subjec

Re: [Finale] Is FINALE worth continuing?

2012-04-17 Thread Richard Yates
> So I now need to echo both Frank and George. Unless you are in position to > monitor the mechanics of the list, there's simply no way to know how many soldiers > there are in the great lurker army. I bet there are a lot of us. > > David Lawrence The list's web page at Sam Houston State Univ say

Re: [Finale] Multi-button input device

2012-04-10 Thread Richard Yates
For myself, I cannot think of an efficient use of that many shortcuts. Anyway, TGTools lets me program all the special keys I need - all the function keys (in combinations with shift, ctrl, alt) plus a few others. f2-f5 are layers, Speedy is f7, Articulations are f9, ties are the "/" on the keypad,

Re: [Finale] Finale and Illustrator

2012-03-04 Thread Richard Yates
Going directly from Finale to eps from the graphics window can leave fonts behind, depending on your Finale version, settings, OS, and the phase of the moon. Print-to-pdf then converting to eps is, from what I have experienced and read here, more reliable. But, whatever works... > What Richard say

Re: [Finale] Finale and Illustrator

2012-03-04 Thread Richard Yates
I print to the Adobe pdf driver, open the pdf file in Acrobat Professional, and 'save as...' eps. These files open in illustrator and individual elements can be edited. Richard Yates > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.e

Re: [Finale] Mixdown

2011-10-31 Thread Richard Yates
> First of all, they are working off a copy of an existing orchestra recording, for the > most part. That means that questions of timbre, volume, balance, phrasing, etc., > can be tweaked according to the highest professional standards (maybe they don't > ATTAIN those standards, but they have the s

Re: [Finale] EPS export from F2010 is black in MS word

2011-09-17 Thread Richard Yates
> so i think your solution is the best i have come across, but it just seems stupid that > FIN-PDF-EPS-MS gets higher quality and better functionality than FIN-EPS-MS. You are right, of course, but for years nothing at all worked so I am still thrilled there is a way! ___

Re: [Finale] EPS export from F2010 is black in MS word

2011-09-16 Thread Richard Yates
I always print to Adobe pdf printer driver (include fonts), open in Acrobat, crop, save as EPS, import into Word. It shows as rough tif preview graphic on screen but prints fine. > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of > SN jef chi

Re: [Finale] Deauthorize via Customer Support

2011-08-09 Thread Richard Yates
I think it was a joke, Darcy. > Hi Brian, > MM has a database with the name and contact information of each registered > owner and their associated serial. > Cheers, DJA > On 9 Aug 2011, at 7:13 PM, Brian Williams wrote: > > > Maybe MM is just trying to make sure that unscrupulous people who ha

Re: [Finale] Win7(64), Finale 2011b.r2 and eps export

2011-06-28 Thread Richard Yates
). Richard Yates > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of > Pierre Bailleul > Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 3:03 AM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: [Finale] Win7(64), Finale 2011b.r2 and eps export > > Hi all, >

RE: [Finale] [OT] plural of rubato = rubati?

2011-03-30 Thread Richard Yates
And the Liberty bell is in Fluffya, Pennsylvania. >Of course, the > natives pronounced Rochester in two syllables, "Rah-tchtah." > Christopher ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

RE: [Finale] OS X 10.7 Lion drops support for Rosetta (PPC) apps

2011-03-01 Thread Richard Yates
; Hello Richard! > > Am 01.03.2011 um 00:46 schrieb Richard Yates: > > >>> As I struggle with updating the archives of the Vermont Composers > >>> (as well as my own work), I wonder: Who will do this? Will the work > >>> of an entire generation be lost? &g

RE: [Finale] OS X 10.7 Lion drops support for Rosetta (PPC) apps

2011-02-28 Thread Richard Yates
> > As I struggle with updating the archives of the Vermont Composers (as > > well as my own work), I wonder: Who will do this? Will the work of an > > entire generation be lost? > > Not if it's taken care of. > > This is, transferring it into a format which can be read independent of machines of

RE: [Finale] Staff size recommendations

2011-02-19 Thread Richard Yates
ze recommendations > > 'This page would have been left blank if it could have been without generating > complaints of missing music' > > > > On 19 Feb 2011, at 22:12, Richard Yates wrote: > > > Better?: "This page intenti

RE: [Finale] Staff size recommendations

2011-02-19 Thread Richard Yates
ollections of individual pieces, many with two pages, so that page turns are avoided. Richard Yates > > John > > > -- > John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music > Virginia Tech Department of Music > College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A.

RE: [Finale] Eps page export / resize staff

2011-02-14 Thread Richard Yates
I think the suggestion (and the way I do it with FinWin2007) is to print a page as pdf then open that in Acrobat, crop as I want, and save as eps with fonts. Those eps files seem to be working fine across applications and platforms. Richard Yates > Printing finale page file with adobe pdf

[Finale] OT: historical analogy

2011-01-28 Thread Richard Yates
favorite for recasting in new arrangements? Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

RE: [Finale] Installation woes

2011-01-23 Thread Richard Yates
> I had to uninstall and reinstall again, but I've now managed > to get Finale 2008a back. But I'm back where I started, > because when I copy my plug-ins (backed up from the previous > installation), the error message on launching Finale comes back. > > The only new plug-ins I tried recently a

{Spam} RE: [Finale] Installation woes

2011-01-22 Thread Richard Yates
> > 1) The Finale 2008a updated won't run, and claims Finale isn't > > installed on my machine. > > 2) My authorization gets lost each time I quit Finale, so I have to > > reauthorize. > > Are you logged in as admin during installation? Anti-virus > turned OFF during installation? Even if yo

RE: [Finale] Boxes around text

2011-01-15 Thread Richard Yates
Unless it's changed since Finale2007: Text Tool, create some text. Text menu, Standard Frame, type in the line thickness that you want. (Years ago I did a whole book of text and music using only Finale 1998!) Richard Yates > What is the sensible method for putting text on a page with

RE: [Finale] music spacing

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Yates
> Is it 100% correct that it [Update Layout] only changes measure widths? If "incorporate manual positioning" is checked, then tweaks to spacing inside a measure are preserved proportionately when Update Layout changes measure widths. > Is it possible to lock measure widths? Not that I know of.

RE: [Finale] music spacing

2011-01-13 Thread Richard Yates
interfered with is manual changes to measure widths. Always do those last. Also, Update Layout only affects your current and later pages. Earlier pages are not affected. Richard Yates > Thanks for reply - this clarifies it. > Is it correct then that if I write half a score and move > ele

{Spam} RE: [Finale] blank boxes

2011-01-09 Thread Richard Yates
a time thousands of years from now when civilization and technology have crumbled except for this one email server faithfully sending out its monthly notices. Kind if like Wall-E, but not as cute. Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.ed

{Spam} RE: Re: [Finale] Re: Finale Digest, Vol 89, Issue 20

2010-12-19 Thread Richard Yates
> > Is there a way to specify how many systems per page? > > I have three staves per system. > > Trying to get 5 systems per page like I see in my Handel > Messiah copy: Page Layout Tool --> Space Systems Evenly --> Place _ systems on each page ___ Fi

{Spam} RE: [Finale] pickup bug?(II)

2010-12-07 Thread Richard Yates
It happens in FinWin2007 for all such pickup measures (dotted eighth-sixteenth in quarter pickup, etc). > Hmmm... > Can anyone on the list reproduce this, or is it just me? > *FinMac 2011*. Speedy entry. Eighth note pickup measure has > the dotted rhythm: dotted 16th-32nd. > When I dot the 16th

RE: [Finale] More questions

2010-12-01 Thread Richard Yates
Probably nothing wrong. Added measures do not inherit the system reduction (or is it the staff reduction?) of the existing ones. It's bugged me for years. Richard Yates > I opened one of my templates from 2010 in 2011. When I add > measures to this document the staves on the second

RE: [Finale] OT: Converting to PDF on a PC

2010-11-05 Thread Richard Yates
I like Bullzip a lot. http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php Richard Yates > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Ryan > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 2:04 PM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Su

RE: [Finale] best-selling, most advanced notation software...?!

2010-08-18 Thread Richard Yates
> Hard to tell from their website, but it looks about as > sophisticated in terms of entry as Music Construction Set for > the Commodore 64. The cutting edge in its time! Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists

RE: [Finale] Finale 2011 now available for pre-order

2010-05-25 Thread Richard Yates
I agree (although I recognize that some features may excite others). Having the program put the right rests in a pickup measure might save me one minute a year. For $119? I think not. Richard Yates > Wow, talk about lackluster. > > FYI, we're now taking pre-orders f

RE: [Finale] print forces update layout??

2010-05-21 Thread Richard Yates
> This method does not provide the right amount of space for > the parenthesis after the 3/1 for the courtesy time signature > at the end of a system. I've been too lazy to track all of these suggestions and I also wallow in the obsolete depths of Finale2007, but... What about a custom articu

RE: [Finale] print forces update layout??

2010-05-20 Thread Richard Yates
MassMover, Select all, 'L', locks the layout. Does that prevent the kludge undo? > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Mark D Lew > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:51 PM > To: Finale-List 3 > Subject: [Finale] print forces upd

RE: [Finale] What is the name of this piece?

2010-05-01 Thread Richard Yates
> -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Noel Stoutenburg > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 7:49 AM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] What is the name of this piece? > > Richard Yates wrote:

RE: [Finale] What is the name of this piece?

2010-04-30 Thread Richard Yates
Well, that's a clue (and maybe where I remember it). Anyone else got any ideas? > > G'day Richard > Schumann has a piece with the same title in his Album For the Young. > David McKay > > On 1 May 2010 13:20, Richard Yates wrote: > > > The conten

[Finale] What is the name of this piece?

2010-04-30 Thread Richard Yates
The contents page of Leopoldo Miguez's 12 Pecas Caracteristicas looks like this: http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/MiguezTOC.jpg What is the title of piece #8? I seem to very vaguely recall this being a symbol for something (but my brain may be making that up!). Richard

RE: [Finale] Make tab from Notation

2010-03-31 Thread Richard Yates
Add a tab staff with the Staff Tool. Select All with Mass Mover. Drag everything to the tab staff. > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of George Ports > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 11:01 AM > To: Finale Forum > Subject: [F

RE: [Finale] placing a natural sign in microsoft word file

2010-03-22 Thread Richard Yates
er(s) should I type in to get the natural sign? > > > On Mar 22, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Richard Yates wrote: > > > Use MaestroTimes, not Maestro. > > > > > > > > > > > > Martin Banner > mban...@hvc.rr.com > > http://www.

RE: [Finale] placing a natural sign in microsoft word file

2010-03-22 Thread Richard Yates
Use MaestroTimes, not Maestro. > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Martin Banner > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 11:21 AM > To: Finale > Subject: [Finale] placing a natural sign in microsoft word file > > I am writing an ed

RE: [Finale] OT Time Signatures in MS Word documents

2010-03-21 Thread Richard Yates
tered font size]". For other signatures you could just copy this pair and change the numbers. In a paragraph you may also have to alter the line spacing of that line. I can't guarantee anything, but it looks like it works. Richard Yates > -Original Message- >

RE: [Finale] Sibelius features?

2010-03-08 Thread Richard Yates
positions dialogue box). For the second, simply > select the "erase background" option in the fingering text style. > > > On 3 March 2010 16:07, Richard Yates wrote: > > > Every couple of versions or so I check to see if two essential > > features of

RE: [Finale] Playback Bugs

2010-03-04 Thread Richard Yates
> -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Chuck Israels > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 10:07 AM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] Playback Bugs > > > On Mar 4, 2010, at 7:44 AM, Michael Lawlor wrote: > > > P.S.

RE: [Finale] Layout misbehavior

2010-03-03 Thread Richard Yates
> Found it! (in the Page Layout-Menu, naturally) And there was > indeed a page break between the systems, which I have now > dissolved. But how did it get there in the first place??? Sibelius hackers. > Thanks for the tip! Thanks for the chance to show that my memory has not completely deterio

RE: [Finale] Layout misbehavior

2010-03-03 Thread Richard Yates
I think I've seen this but don't quite remember what was going on. Is there a page break inserted in the layout in the middle of the system? > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Fiedler > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010

[Finale] Sibelius features?

2010-03-02 Thread Richard Yates
preset distance from the notehead (regardless of where I click on the notehead horizontally). 2. I like LH fingering numbers in which there is a small amount of the staff line whited out. Does anyone know if Sibelius can do these? Richard Yates

RE: [Finale] Help with strange dashed line

2010-02-28 Thread Richard Yates
I got the file but it is in a later version than my 2007. > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Barbara Touburg > Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 9:20 AM > To: Finale > Subject: [Finale] Help with strange dashed line > > He

RE: [Finale] Help with strange dashed line

2010-02-28 Thread Richard Yates
I get "Pagina niet gevonden - 404" Can you post the whole URL? > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Barbara Touburg > Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 9:20 AM > To: Finale > Subject: [Finale] Help with strange dashed line >

RE: [Finale] beaming problem

2010-01-28 Thread Richard Yates
If you must use a tuplet instead of a time signature of 12/8 as four dotted wuaters, then you have to use the Broken Beam Tool to switch the sixteenth beamlet to the other side. > Here's my beaming problem. I have a piece in common time > where some of the beats use the typical rhythm of a 12/8

RE: [Finale] beaming problem

2010-01-28 Thread Richard Yates
Is your 12/8 not set up in the Time Signature dialog box as 4 dotted quarters? Also, your jpg link is broken. Richard Yates > Here's my beaming problem. I have a piece in common time > where some of the beats use the typical rhythm of a 12/8 time > sig: dotted 8th + 16th + 8t

RE: [Finale] stem direction question

2010-01-27 Thread Richard Yates
your example (both horizontally and vertically) does not look right to me. No reason for the first in each measure not to be higher. Richard Yates > Say you have three voices on one staff, as in the first bars > (left hand), of the Goldbergs (see link to scan below). > Assuming the u

RE: [Finale] [OT] national anthem scores (melody+lyrics)

2010-01-22 Thread Richard Yates
They are all here: http://themes.mididb.com/anthems/ with no lyrics. These versions are fully harmonized but the timing is clean and the melodies are on separate staffs so it's easy to copy them out. MIDIs and lyrics are here: http://www.nationalanthems.info/ but the MIDI files need a little twea

RE: [Finale] grace notes and reduction Fin2007

2010-01-18 Thread Richard Yates
- DJA > - > WEB: http://secretsociety.typepad.com > > On 18 Jan 2010, at 3:07 PM, Richard Yates wrote: > > >> My opinion is that it should be under the grace note, since to me, > >> that's part of the ensuing phrase. But attach it to the > main note so > >>

[Finale] grace notes and reduction Fin2007

2010-01-18 Thread Richard Yates
n the shape designer using a circle and a number. When attaching one to a grace note, the number in the circle is reduced to the percent of the note, but the circle stays the original size. Bo! Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu h

RE: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic

2009-12-30 Thread Richard Yates
Acrobat Reader 9 has this Print Dialog box: http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/AcroReader-print.jpg > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Andrew Stiller > Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 3:05 PM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subj

RE: [Finale] nudge different according to view percent

2009-12-18 Thread Richard Yates
> >And going the other direction, too. If you are in wide view, nudge > >something and it goes too far, the intuitive thing to do (for my > >intuition at least!) would be to nudge it back, then zoom in > and nudge > >it again. If it nudged the same distance in the score I would be > >compla

RE: [Finale] nudge different according to view percent

2009-12-18 Thread Richard Yates
percentage - far easier than changing the setting for number of pixels nudged in program Options. Richard Yates > yeah, well, i know... but somehow... i was hoping against the > odds that i had misunderstood something. is there a valid > reason for items to nudge according to the screen p

RE: [Finale] nudge different according to view percent

2009-12-18 Thread Richard Yates
> Probably because some people would think the feature was > broken otherwise (when zooming out and the items doesn't seem > to move visually at a keyboard nudge). And going the other direction, too. If you are in wide view, nudge something and it goes too far, the intuitive thing to do (for my

RE: [Finale] Defining Staff Styles

2009-11-03 Thread Richard Yates
: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > >> [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of dhbailey > >> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 7:50 AM > >> To: finale@shsu.edu > >> Subject: Re: [Finale] Defining Staff Styles > >> > >> Richard Yates wrote: > >>

RE: [Finale] Defining Staff Styles

2009-11-03 Thread Richard Yates
2009 7:50 AM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] Defining Staff Styles > > Richard Yates wrote: > > In my limited experience with Staff Styles, I thought you could > > highlight a section with Staff Tool and use that as the > basis for a > > staff styl

[Finale] Defining Staff Styles

2009-11-03 Thread Richard Yates
In my limited experience with Staff Styles, I thought you could highlight a section with Staff Tool and use that as the basis for a staff style instead of having to define it from scratch in the Define Staff Styles box. Did I hallucinate this? FinWin2007 Richard Yates

RE: [Finale] Unwanted tie end

2009-11-01 Thread Richard Yates
Thanks, Mark. That did it. > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Mark D Lew > Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:19 PM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] Unwanted tie end > > On Nov 1, 20

[Finale] Unwanted tie end

2009-11-01 Thread Richard Yates
rid of this? I made it real small and hid it on top of a nearby notehead but this seems rather inelegant (and hazardous if respacing is done). Is there another way? FinWin2007. Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu

RE: [Finale] Time Signature - Stumped - FinWin2007

2009-10-30 Thread Richard Yates
> Richard Yates wrote: > > I have a file in which I cannot change the time signatures > of any measures. > > The Time Signature Dialog Box seems to work normally but > the measures > > do not change when I exit the box. Nothing in the box seems to have > > a

RE: [Finale] Time Signature - Stumped - FinWin2007

2009-10-30 Thread Richard Yates
Thanks. Did you use 2007? > I tried the file and could change measures no problem. > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Richard Yates > wrote: > > I have a file in which I cannot change the time signatures > of any measures. > > The Time Signature Dialog Box seems

[Finale] Time Signature - Stumped - FinWin2007

2009-10-30 Thread Richard Yates
several other files that all seem to work normally, but even fragments of it show the same problem. Any ideas what is going wrong? A file is at: http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/MGB-Selected-timebug.MUS Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

RE: [Finale] MakeMusic - The end of;-)

2009-10-23 Thread Richard Yates
> -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Christopher Smith > Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 3:15 AM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] MakeMusic - The end of;-) > > > On Thu Oct 22, at ThursdayOct 22 7:43 PM, David

RE: [Finale] Interesting behavior

2009-10-01 Thread Richard Yates
> [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of John Howell > >From what I have seen, string instruments are more > comfortable playing > >in sharps. > > True (although not responsive to the question), but for two > very specific reasons. > > 1. There are more open strings available in sharp

RE: [SPAM] Re: [Finale] Interesting behavior

2009-09-30 Thread Richard Yates
> Carl Dershem wrote: > > I'm working on a big band piece that has a section in 7 > flats (C-Flat) > > in the middle. Oddly enough, the guitar and bass parts are in 5 > > sharps (B). > > > > FinWin2k4 > > > > Does anyone have any idea why Finale might do that? And if so, why > > the guita

RE: [Finale] notating a composer's dates

2009-09-14 Thread Richard Yates
> (I would, however, use > a plain hyphen rather than putting a space on either side; I think an 'en dash' is the most often prescribed separator between dates. Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.

RE: [Finale] Hiding rests

2009-09-12 Thread Richard Yates
Document options -> layers -> adjust floating rests by ... > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of noel jones > Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 6:43 AM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] Hiding rests > > What numb

RE: [Finale] Fix horizontal note adjustments

2009-09-11 Thread Richard Yates
Go to Document options - music spacing - manual positioning - clear. Then select all music and respace. > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Lee Dengler > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 1:03 PM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Sub

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

2009-08-26 Thread Richard Yates
I don't know if 'Compile PostScript listing' ever worked. Get an app like PrintToPDF ( http://www.jwwalker.com/pages/pdf.html ). > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Aaron Sherber > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:38 AM >

RE: [Finale] Efficient note entry????

2009-08-12 Thread Richard Yates
cy > ----- > djar...@earthlink.net > Brooklyn, NY > > > > On 11 Aug 2009, at 10:46 PM, Richard Yates wrote: > > > > > Any suggestions for entering this texture without resorting to > > manually tweaking those sixteenths in the melody? It would > be a

[Finale] Efficient note entry????

2009-08-11 Thread Richard Yates
(It's Smetana if you're wondering) Thanks Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

RE: [Finale] re-programming expressions

2009-08-11 Thread Richard Yates
Select the Expression Tool. Press Shift and the key you want to be the trigger. Select the expression you want linked to the trigger and then Enter. Pressing that trigger key and clicking on a note of measure now places the expression. > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.ed

RE: [Finale] Music XML import

2009-07-16 Thread Richard Yates
> > Hi, > > Someone sent me XML files produced by Fin2009 or 2009 and I tried > > importing them in FinWin2007. I get error messages such as: > > > > "XML error in file Caprichoarabe.xml at line 12: Attirbute > > "attributte" must be declared for elment type "supports". > > "XML error in file Ca

[Finale] Music XML import

2009-07-16 Thread Richard Yates
etc.) Can anyone translate these? Is there any hope for getting these files into FinWin2007? Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

RE: [Finale] Comparing notation systems

2009-06-30 Thread Richard Yates
< it still completely command-line based? I just don't see > using a non-GUI app for producing notation.>> > I try and follow these technical discussions but surely > it's time to give up a thread when the words contained in the > reply might as well be in Swahili for all that I can compreh

RE: [Finale] Re: Comparing notation systems

2009-06-29 Thread Richard Yates
> There should also be a bit of unaccompanied Bach violin solo, > preferably something like the first movement of the C-major sonata. > Johannes >From the outset, the purpose of the enterprise needs to be defined clearly and explicitly. I am not sure that can be done. Already the comments her

RE: [Finale] Re: Comparing notation systems

2009-06-29 Thread Richard Yates
significant differences are often ones of efficiency and so it is impossible to disentangle software from wetware. Richard Yates > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Barbara Touburg > Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 1

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

2009-06-24 Thread Richard Yates
edu] On Behalf Of dhbailey > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:27 AM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] Can't make PDFs from Finale 2k9 Mac > > Richard Yates wrote: > > > >> Sorry JD, but I remain a defender of Finale as the best notation > >

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

2009-06-24 Thread Richard Yates
> Sorry JD, but I remain a defender of Finale as the best > notation software out there... and I think there must be many > others out there who agree with me. > Gary I'm with you, Gary. I stuck it out for years before EPS creation was fixed a few years ago. Now I have no big complaints (altho

RE: [Finale] repeated authorization

2009-06-23 Thread Richard Yates
This probably has no relevance to Mac, but in Vista even if you are the administrator and the only user on the computer you have to run the program AS the administrator when you register. Instead of just clicking on the setup file (or maybe it's the finale.exe file) you RIGHT-click and select "run

RE: [Finale] Exporting graphic woe

2009-06-16 Thread Richard Yates
With the Graphics Tool be sure to DOUBLE-click and drag. If you single-click you get a dotted outline box that disappears when you release the mouse. > How do you select a passage in order to export it as a > graphic - I can find no way of doing this with the graphic > tool open, if I select u

RE: [Finale] Re: Got Finale 2010 today.

2009-06-09 Thread Richard Yates
> >So much for a free t-shirt :-) > > stay tuned for the water bottle How about a bottle of white-out? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

RE: [Finale] it worked fine until they fixed it

2009-05-17 Thread Richard Yates
After moving the measures go back to page one and Update Layout. > My latest gripe with FinMac 2K7 concerns moving measures around. > > After extracting a tuba part, I have 2 pages. The final page > has 3 measures only, so I would like to move these measures > to page 1. > Here is what I tri

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