Re: [Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-30 Thread Jonathan Smith
Hold down Alt-Ctrl and click on an expression, it shows the note it's attached to. How cool is that? Not very cool. I almost never use it. I want to see what's hooked to what, not go clicking everywhere and guessing. When I move a note with special tools, I want to see what's attached

Re: [Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-30 Thread John Howell
At 8:57 PM -0400 7/29/07, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 05:25 PM 7/29/2007 -0700, Dick Hauser wrote: On Jul 28, 2007, at 11:43 PM, Jonathan Smith wrote: Hold down Alt-Ctrl and click on an expression, it shows the note it's attached to. How cool is that? Not very cool. I almost never

Re: [Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-29 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 05:25 PM 7/29/2007 -0700, Dick Hauser wrote: > >On Jul 28, 2007, at 11:43 PM, Jonathan Smith wrote: > >> Hold down Alt-Ctrl and click on an expression, it shows the note >> it's attached to. >> > >How cool is that? Not very cool. I almost never use it. I want to see what's hooked to what, not

Re: [Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-29 Thread Dick Hauser
On Jul 28, 2007, at 11:43 PM, Jonathan Smith wrote: Hold down Alt-Ctrl and click on an expression, it shows the note it's attached to. How cool is that? Thanks, Jonathan! Dick H ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mail

Re: [Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-29 Thread Jonathan Smith
They should be able to be attached to anything (and should -- repeating this for the umpteenth time) *show* the ownership through some sort of rubber-band indicator. Hold down Alt-Ctrl and click on an expression, it shows the note it's attached to. Jonathan __

Re: [Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-27 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 02:24 PM 7/27/2007 -0400, Christopher Smith wrote: >Text boxes made with the Text Tool (looks like an A) will attach to >measures in scroll view, and to the PAGE if you enter them in page >view. In my opinion, there is no good reason to use the Text Tool for >instructions, with one excepti

Re: [Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-27 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 27, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Patrick Sheehan wrote: I'm working with an organ score that needs to have many text boxes for instructions, etc. When I print out the score (no part extraction needed), I want the boxes to be exactly where they are in the score layout, not offset somewhere els

Re: [Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-27 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 12:41 PM 7/27/2007 -0500, Patrick Sheehan wrote: >I want the boxes to be exactly where they are in the >score layout, not offset somewhere else; this has >happened when I've used Text Blocks in the past. Is >there a way to make this setting? Are you entering them in page view? If so, they

[Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-27 Thread Patrick Sheehan
I'm working with an organ score that needs to have many text boxes for instructions, etc. When I print out the score (no part extraction needed), I want the boxes to be exactly where they are in the score layout, not offset somewhere else; this has happened when I've used Text Blocks in the pas