[Finale] Re: Converting old files: ties and slurs

2006-10-12 Thread shirling neueweise
From: David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Er, is there a version of Score that is newer than 15 years old? At 15:56 +0200 10/10/06, Thomas Weber wrote: According to what I find on my installation disk, the latest version (4) was released 1999. A number of Score users still sticks to version

Re: [Finale] Re: Converting old files: ties and slurs

2006-10-12 Thread David W. Fenton
On 12 Oct 2006 at 13:26, shirling neueweise wrote: From: David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Er, is there a version of Score that is newer than 15 years old? At 15:56 +0200 10/10/06, Thomas Weber wrote: According to what I find on my installation disk, the latest version (4) was released

Re: [Finale] Re: Converting old files: ties and slurs

2006-10-12 Thread Daniel Wolf
It sounds like you might find Lilypond attractive. While it is still something of a work in progress, it does a remarkable job replicating classical engraving style (for classical repertoire) and has a work sequence opposite that of Score, in that the notes are entered first, and then builds

Re: [Finale] Re: Converting old files: ties and slurs

2006-10-12 Thread David W. Fenton
On 13 Oct 2006 at 1:16, Daniel Wolf wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: I haven't seen Score output recently. It used to be vastly superior to Finale (even done by a gifted Finale engraver). But I always found it extremely difficult to use, and not very helpful for new engraving, as the page

Re: [Finale] Re: Converting old files: ties and slurs

2006-10-12 Thread Chuck Israels
On Oct 12, 2006, at 4:48 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I wish Finale had better defaults so that it took less tweaking to get things to look right (why can't Finale get beaming right? Why do I have to run Patterson Beams on every file just to get basic beam angles to come out correct?). I

[Finale] Re: Converting old files: ties and slurs

2006-10-11 Thread shirling neueweise
From: Robert Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] What I've noticed is that many articulations no longer appear in the same place as before. This has nothing to do with font annotation files, unless MM changed the ones for their fonts. I've upgraded some of my files as far as 2006d but cannot bring

Re: [Finale] Re: Converting old files: ties and slurs

2006-10-11 Thread David W. Fenton
On 11 Oct 2006 at 23:28, shirling neueweise wrote: score has 100% backwards compatibility... one user reports being able to edit 15-yr old files. Er, is there a version of Score that is newer than 15 years old? -- David W. Fentonhttp://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates