Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Jari Williamsson
Aaron Sherber wrote: (It's in the back of my head that there's some other native Finale way to map these keys to tools, but I can't remember it right now.) In Finale, it's the Tool-attached (and file-specific!) metatools. On Windows, it's the function keys that can be mapped to tools. Best r

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:19 PM 12/18/2007, Chuck Israels wrote: >Randolph, FYI, you can get to the individual tuplet setting by double >clicking on the tuplet with the selection tool and then clicking on >the highlighted tuplet handle. As I mentioned, you can also get those settings by right-clicking on the tuple

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Chuck Israels
Randolph, FYI, you can get to the individual tuplet setting by double clicking on the tuplet with the selection tool and then clicking on the highlighted tuplet handle. It's not ideal, but it does get you there while still in the selection tool. The inconvenience is that then you are

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:41 PM 12/18/2007, Randolph Peters wrote: >Sorry, I meant that Change tuplets (or Change anything for that >matter) is not a choice in the Selection Tool when you invoke the >contextual menu. They added other items in 2008, but took this option >off. True. It's under the Utilities menu now.

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Randolph Peters
Christopher Smith wrote: Actually, it was even easier in the previous version where you could get to the tuplet settings with a control-click (right-click). I'm not sure why they took that away in 2008. I guess I'll have to make another macro... That is still there in my FinMac2008a. Control

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Christopher Smith
On Dec 18, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Randolph Peters wrote: Christopher Smith wrote: FWIW, I found changing the tuplets to above in the choir parts went very smoothly and quickly with the Utilities>Change... Tuplets. One shot, very easy. I can't imagine a Staff Style being any easier than that.

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Randolph Peters
Randolph Peters wrote: And while we are at it, why not another Staff Style option that would take auto-positioned dynamics (usually below the staff) and give them an override setting so that the dynamics could automatically go above the staff? This would save having to make duplicate sets of d

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Randolph Peters
Christopher Smith wrote: FWIW, I found changing the tuplets to above in the choir parts went very smoothly and quickly with the Utilities>Change... Tuplets. One shot, very easy. I can't imagine a Staff Style being any easier than that. I agree that it is not hard to change. Actually, it was e

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hey Jari, But you would lose the collision avoidance for below-staff notes too. This may or may not be a problem depending what the instrumentation is, but if it's, say, SATB choir with orchestra, you probably want to use two sets of dynamics. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Broo

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Chuck Israels
I would say, "Who knew?", but apparently Darcy knows (why am I not surprised?). More invaluable information. Thanks, Darcy. Chuck On Dec 18, 2007, at 7:38 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Chris, Finale actually comes with a pre-defined library of above-the-staff choral dynamics: Librari

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Jari Williamsson
Darcy James Argue wrote: Good tip, but that method won't automatically avoid low entries below the staff or high ones above it. For that, you still need to use duplicate expressions. Unless it's a piece that was written for Yma Sumac, vocal parts are normally not spanning that wide range tha

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Jari, Good tip, but that method won't automatically avoid low entries below the staff or high ones above it. For that, you still need to use duplicate expressions. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 18 Dec 2007, at 10:47 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote: Randolph Pet

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Chris, Finale actually comes with a pre-defined library of above-the-staff choral dynamics: Libraries/Maestro Font/Choral Dynamics. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 18 Dec 2007, at 9:36 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: On Dec 18, 2007, at 7:41 AM, Aaron Sherber wr

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Jari Williamsson
Randolph Peters wrote: And while we are at it, why not another Staff Style option that would take auto-positioned dynamics (usually below the staff) and give them an override setting so that the dynamics could automatically go above the staff? This would save having to make duplicate sets of d

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Chuck Israels
On Dec 18, 2007, at 6:36 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: FWIW, I found changing the tuplets to above in the choir parts went very smoothly and quickly with the Utilities>Change... Tuplets. One shot, very easy. I can't imagine a Staff Style being any easier than that. If not for this lis

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:20 AM 12/18/2007, Chuck Israels wrote: >Changing defaults affects all staves. Randolph is suggesting a >different setting for vocal parts only, in both tuplets and dynamics. Ah, sorry -- I misread his request. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Fi

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:36 AM 12/18/2007, Christopher Smith wrote: >On Dec 18, 2007, at 7:41 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: >> Duplicate dynamics? Why not just place the regular dynamic in the >> score and then shift-drag it to over the staff? This seems quicker >> to me than applying a staff style. > >Because if you hav

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Christopher Smith
On Dec 18, 2007, at 7:41 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: >And while we are at it, why not another Staff Style option that would >take auto-positioned dynamics (usually below the staff) and give them >an override setting so that the dynamics could automatically go above >the staff? This would save havi

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Chuck Israels
On Dec 18, 2007, at 4:41 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 12:32 AM 12/18/2007, Randolph Peters wrote: >It would be great if there could be a Staff Style that would >automatically place tuplets above the music. This would take care of >the majority of tuplets in vocal parts. I know you can change the

Re: [Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:32 AM 12/18/2007, Randolph Peters wrote: >It would be great if there could be a Staff Style that would >automatically place tuplets above the music. This would take care of >the majority of tuplets in vocal parts. I know you can change the >tuplets in one pass using what used to be called Ma

[Finale] Staff Styles wishlist

2007-12-17 Thread Randolph Peters
It would be great if there could be a Staff Style that would automatically place tuplets above the music. This would take care of the majority of tuplets in vocal parts. I know you can change the tuplets in one pass using what used to be called Mass Mover, but still, this would be useful. And