[Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread SN jef chippewa
is there no way to see in the score where a mid-score instrument change starts? i.e. the only place it is visible is in the score manager?! it seems to me this is a huge problem for proofing, no? and now that the instrument.txt file no longer exists, i can't change the hard-wired settings for

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2012-05-16 11:47, SN jef chippewa wrote: > is there no way to see in the score where a mid-score instrument > change starts? i.e. the only place it is visible is in the score > manager?! I have a plug-in where you can add the instrument changes as text, but it's currently not possible to see

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread SN jef chippewa
>and now that the instrument.txt file no longer exists... i also used to be able to replace the english instrument.txt file with a german one to be able to easily generate a score with german instrument names... now this is not possible at all. for most cases this is only inconvenient, but on

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread Allen Fisher
On May 16, 2012, at 5:37 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote: > On 2012-05-16 11:47, SN jef chippewa wrote: > >> jezzzuz. > > viihhhnu. Buuu Sorry, in my sleep-deprived state, I couldn't resist... Sent from my iDon'tCareWhat __

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread SN jef chippewa
>I have a plug-in where you can add the instrument changes as text, >but it's currently not possible to see the changes as "staff style >bars" or something similar. ok will check it out. >This has been discussed a lot. Make sure to let MM know that you >want this need to be addressed. just d

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2012-05-16 13:13, SN jef chippewa wrote: > now this is not possible at all. Since this seems to be a fact, at least on your machine, I'm not going to tell you how to do the editing in Fin2012. ;-) Best regards, Jari Williamsson ___ Finale mailin

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2012-05-16 13:21, SN jef chippewa wrote: >> FWIW, there is a column in the instrument table for transposition. > > in Score Manager / Instrument List? don't see it. doesn't appear > inthe "Customize View" pop-up menu either. The Finale.instruments file. Best regards, Jari Williamsson

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread SN jef chippewa
>The Finale.instruments file. oo sounds sexy, where can i get some exactly? doesn't seem to be one in my Finale 2012 folder...? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread SN jef chippewa
> > now this is not possible at all. > >Since this seems to be a fact, at least on your machine, I'm not >going to tell you how to do the editing in Fin2012. ;-) that's ok, some things i can actually figure out by myself :P ___ Finale mailing list Fi

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread SN jef chippewa
i think this is a PC file thingy, not mac...? anyone know what the equivalent would be? >The Finale.instruments file. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2012-05-16 14:14, SN jef chippewa wrote: > > i think this is a PC file thingy, not mac...? anyone know what the > equivalent would be? > >> The Finale.instruments file. It's called Finale.instruments in FinMac2012. Best regards, Jari Williamsson

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread SN jef chippewa
>It's called Finale.instruments in FinMac2012. a file with that name does not exist anywhere on my machine. where is it supposed to be located? here is where i would expect it to be and a list of all files in that folder: CONFIGURATION FILES ensembles.txt keymaps.txt MacSymbolFonts.txt pagesi

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2012-05-16 14:30, SN jef chippewa wrote: > >> It's called Finale.instruments in FinMac2012. > > a file with that name does not exist anywhere on my machine. where > is it supposed to be located? It's in Finale 2012 for OSX, in the bundle. Best regards, Jari Williamsson

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread SN jef chippewa
>It's in Finale 2012 for OSX, in the bundle. ah ok. well, tried that, didn't find what i need. Finale 2012 [APP] / Contents / MacOS / - contains the following files: AIOLib.bundle ApplyCapoChords.bundle Finale 2012 HP.bundle implodePPC.shlb keymaps.txt --> a 0 kb empty file...!! MusicXML.bundle

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2012-05-16 15:13, SN jef chippewa wrote: > >> It's in Finale 2012 for OSX, in the bundle. > > ah ok. well, tried that, didn't find what i need. Finale 2012->Contents->Resources Best regards, Jari Williamsson ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.ed

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread SN jef chippewa
>Finale 2012->Contents->Resources phew! ok now what programmes can edit this thing? i opened in TextEdit and well... no way. MS word, excel, BBEdit, nope. seems to be made in SQLite, so there is no way to access / edit this file without being able to code in SQL? ___

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread Claude Guéganno
you can use "sqliteman" , "navicat" or another sqlite manager => you don't need to code in sql to edit the tables http://sqliteman.com/page/4.html claude Le 16/05/2012 15:44, SN jef chippewa a écrit : >> Finale 2012->Contents->Resources > phew! ok now what programmes can edit this thing? i o

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread SN jef chippewa
thanks! but i'm on mac, all i find is some geekcode stuff i am not familiar with: http://www.sqlite.org/download.html i don't quite understand why this has become so complicated, until F2011 it was a text file that could be edited by any user who knew how to open a basic text editing programm

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread SN jef chippewa
ok managed to get things working using SQLite Database Browser. now i can edit the clef, transposition etc. information for individual instruments. it's actually much cleaner to work with than the txt file in previous versions (which was a total mess), once you get the proper software instal

Re: [Finale] F2012 score manager: instrument changes / chromatic instruments

2012-05-16 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2012-05-16 19:18, SN jef chippewa wrote: > i suppose the reason this was so difficult is because MM really > doesn't want users playing around with this stuff :P because of the > integration of the instrument / staff style etc. in F2012. Yes, I think the most important thing is that you don't