Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-04-18 Thread Bernardo Barros
Other thingg good for academic works is that it organizes the indexes, doc, bibliographys, citations, footnotes all altomaticalle. References you an prepare with zotero and/or bibtex. For academic works it's the best. On 18 April 2010 20:04, Bernardo Barros wrote: > Perhaps there are WYSIWYG edi

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-04-18 Thread Bernardo Barros
> > Perhaps there are WYSIWYG editors that produce TeX output, Lyx is pretty much what you just said (http://www.lyx.org/) It's very good, really nikce. You can get the quality of TeX and it's not difficult to learn. As easy as MS-Word. You can import EPS graphics and Lilypond files ( http://li

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-04-01 Thread David W. Fenton
On 1 Apr 2010 at 21:19, Daniel Wolf wrote: > On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:00:12 +0300, wrote: > > > The only electronic format that makes any sense to me is PDF, since > > it's portable and reliable. I can't fathom why any institution would > > require a proprietary format. > > PDF, or specifically,

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-04-01 Thread Daniel Wolf
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:00:12 +0300, wrote: The only electronic format that makes any sense to me is PDF, since it's portable and reliable. I can't fathom why any institution would require a proprietary format. PDF, or specifically, the Adobe PDF implementation, was only released from its p

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-03-31 Thread David W. Fenton
On 31 Mar 2010 at 8:43, Christopher Smith wrote: > > On Tue Mar 30, at TuesdayMar 30 11:05 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > On 30 Mar 2010 at 21:57, Christopher Smith wrote: > > > >> On Tue Mar 30, at TuesdayMar 30 9:49 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > >> > >>> Last I checked, UMI PDFs of dissertati

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-03-31 Thread David W. Fenton
On 31 Mar 2010 at 7:41, dhbailey wrote: > But you can create MSWord format documents from a variety of > sources: WordPerfect, OpenOffice and others. ...all of which are variable in their ability to create Word-format documents that reliably reproduce the original format. > So while the forma

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-03-31 Thread Christopher Smith
On Tue Mar 30, at TuesdayMar 30 11:05 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 30 Mar 2010 at 21:57, Christopher Smith wrote: On Tue Mar 30, at TuesdayMar 30 9:49 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Last I checked, UMI PDFs of dissertations were graphics of scans of the printed page, not produced from the text

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-03-31 Thread dhbailey
Christopher Smith wrote: On Tue Mar 30, at TuesdayMar 30 9:49 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Last I checked, UMI PDFs of dissertations were graphics of scans of the printed page, not produced from the text of the document. Even if they *were* produced from the printed document, specifying dpi of s

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-03-30 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
John wrote: Rules do NOT have to be either logical or reasonable, they just have to be followed. Ah yes, in Army basic training, I would make the hard-nosed platoon Sgt. be beside himself, when just after he turned off the barrack's lights, I would shout out, "The thinking lamp is n

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-03-30 Thread David W. Fenton
On 30 Mar 2010 at 21:57, Christopher Smith wrote: > On Tue Mar 30, at TuesdayMar 30 9:49 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > Last I checked, UMI PDFs of dissertations were graphics of scans of > > the printed page, not produced from the text of the document. Even if > > they *were* produced from the

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-03-30 Thread Christopher Smith
On Tue Mar 30, at TuesdayMar 30 9:49 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Last I checked, UMI PDFs of dissertations were graphics of scans of the printed page, not produced from the text of the document. Even if they *were* produced from the printed document, specifying dpi of source graphics is not some

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-03-30 Thread David W. Fenton
On 30 Mar 2010 at 22:42, John Howell wrote: > At 9:49 PM -0400 3/30/10, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > >Now, it may be that some institutions have helpful hints on this, but > >the idea of a requirement or standard is to me ludicrous. > > My daughter just had her dissertation proposal in Math Educa

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-03-30 Thread John Howell
At 9:49 PM -0400 3/30/10, David W. Fenton wrote: Now, it may be that some institutions have helpful hints on this, but the idea of a requirement or standard is to me ludicrous. My daughter just had her dissertation proposal in Math Education approved at NYU, so I'll ask her what they require.

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-03-30 Thread David W. Fenton
On 30 Mar 2010 at 21:17, John Howell wrote: > At 3:16 PM -0400 3/30/10, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > >This has nothing to do with anything but producing a document. > >Dissertations are printed documents and the source files or formats > >are not relevant to the institutions involved. > > Quite p

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-03-30 Thread David W. Fenton
On 30 Mar 2010 at 15:31, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > Williams, Jim wrote: > > > Is there no standard at all? Does it vary from school to school? > > I'd be very surprised if there is no standard, and more than varying > from school to school, it may, in fact, vary from department to > department

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-03-30 Thread John Howell
At 3:16 PM -0400 3/30/10, David W. Fenton wrote: This has nothing to do with anything but producing a document. Dissertations are printed documents and the source files or formats are not relevant to the institutions involved. Quite possibly no longer true. Or at least no longer true at some

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-03-30 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Williams, Jim wrote: Is there no standard at all? Does it vary from school to school? I'd be very surprised if there is no standard, and more than varying from school to school, it may, in fact, vary from department to department within a school. Your associate should be able to provide the

Re: [Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-03-30 Thread David W. Fenton
On 30 Mar 2010 at 14:40, Williams, Jim wrote: > Anyone done Finale work for a doctoral dissertation? > > An associate has asked me to do some examples that he is going to > insert into his dissertation. > > Preparing the .MUS files is not a concern here; what I need to know is > if there is a s

[Finale] Dissertation Work Guidelines/Advice?

2010-03-30 Thread Williams, Jim
Anyone done Finale work for a doctoral dissertation? An associate has asked me to do some examples that he is going to insert into his dissertation. Preparing the .MUS files is not a concern here; what I need to know is if there is a standard for the format (.GIF? .TIF? .JPG? other?) and resolu