Re: [Finale] Performance notes - text & notation excerpts

2007-12-26 Thread Ray Horton
I've done some things in a fashion similar to Noel. I've also imported whole sections from a word processor as a graphic into Finale; also Finale sections and pages as graphics into word processor. One can make about anything work. Raymond Horton Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Chuck Israels wr

Re: [Finale] Performance notes - text & notation excerpts

2007-12-24 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
To Richard Yates observation: >Finale file. There are some limitations of Finale text formatting, Aaron Sherber elaborated: That's rather an understatement. As best as I can tell, Finale does not let you do tabs, adjust paragraph leading, True. My workaround: select a point size that will

Re: [Finale] Performance notes - text & notation excerpts

2007-12-24 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Chuck Israels wrote: Collective wise ones: What is the best way to create a page of performance notes that includes text instructions and small (one measure) musical excerpts? Can a word processing document (formatted with musical inserts) be dropped into a Finale page in toto? I have not h

Re: [Finale] Performance notes - text & notation excerpts

2007-12-22 Thread dhbailey
Chuck Israels wrote: Collective wise ones: What is the best way to create a page of performance notes that includes text instructions and small (one measure) musical excerpts? Can a word processing document (formatted with musical inserts) be dropped into a Finale page in toto? I have not h

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. 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 jus

RE: [Finale] Performance notes - text & notation excerpts

2007-12-22 Thread Richard Yates
inale] Performance notes - text & notation excerpts > >Collective wise ones: > >What is the best way to create a page of performance notes >that includes text instructions and small (one measure) >musical excerpts? > >Can a word processing document (formatted with music

Re: [Finale] Performance notes - text & notation excerpts

2007-12-22 Thread Chuck Israels
Thanks Darcy, I have iWork too, so I will use Pages. (BTW - I will see you at the IAJE Conference in blustery, cold Toronto. We will be there on Thursday and Friday.) Chuck On Dec 22, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Apple's Pages app (part of iWork 08) is well-suited to this.

Re: [Finale] Performance notes - text & notation excerpts

2007-12-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
Apple's Pages app (part of iWork 08) is well-suited to this. Print your Finale examples to PDF, then import them into your Pages doc. You can mask or crop the PDFs directly in Pages. I believe EPS also works, although as I have said, I have had no need for EPS for many years. In my experien

Re: [Finale] Performance notes - text & notation excerpts

2007-12-22 Thread Chuck Israels
On Dec 22, 2007, at 11:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuck, If text is the greatest of the two I would use a word processor and import the music as graphics. If music is the predominant thing on the page I might do it in Finale, depends on the project. Test is the greater, and I m f

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. Th

Re: [Finale] Performance notes - text & notation excerpts

2007-12-22 Thread VincentL10
Chuck, If text is the greatest of the two I would use a word processor and import the music as graphics. If music is the predominant thing on the page I might do it in Finale, depends on the project. You could capture a graphic of a word processing page and import the resulting graphic in

Re: [Finale] Performance notes - text & notation excerpts

2007-12-22 Thread Carl Dershem
Chuck Israels wrote: Collective wise ones: What is the best way to create a page of performance notes that includes text instructions and small (one measure) musical excerpts? Can a word processing document (formatted with musical inserts) be dropped into a Finale page in toto? I have not h

[Finale] Performance notes - text & notation excerpts

2007-12-22 Thread Chuck Israels
Collective wise ones: What is the best way to create a page of performance notes that includes text instructions and small (one measure) musical excerpts? Can a word processing document (formatted with musical inserts) be dropped into a Finale page in toto? I have not had to do this before