Re: [Finale] non-US/CA users: keyboard layout

2014-10-31 Thread SN jef chippewa
hey harold, obrigado! yeah sounds familiar :-) can you let me know which ones are not (easily) available on the PT keyboard layout? and are you on mac or windows? I use the Portuguese keyboard layout/Portuguese keyboard. I learned most of the equivalent keys and it works fine most of the

Re: [Finale] non-US/CA users: keyboard layout

2014-10-31 Thread hmauro
I can´t remember it now, but I'll keep it in mind and let you know next time it happens. I'm on a Macbook running Lion- Harold Quoting SN jef chippewa shirl...@newmusicnotation.com: hey harold, obrigado! yeah sounds familiar :-) can you let me know which ones are not (easily) available on

[Finale] non-US/CA users: keyboard layout

2014-10-30 Thread SN jef chippewa
i use french-canadian keyboard layout but always switch to US when using finale, as i always had the impression that was the layout that the programme was built around. then again, i have the english version of the programme. the mapping to numbers and shift-numbers in german and french

Re: [Finale] non-US/CA users: keyboard layout

2014-10-30 Thread Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre
I always switch to the US layout, when I need the two rightmost programable tool selection keys or when I need to create grace notes in Speedy. Klaus Sendt fra min iPhone Den 30/10/2014 kl. 08.38 skrev SN jef chippewa shirl...@newmusicnotation.com: i use french-canadian keyboard layout

Re: [Finale] non-US/CA users: keyboard layout

2014-10-30 Thread SN jef chippewa
hi klaus, thanks. you only use it for those tasks, and not for selection of characters in the articulation definition palette, or when creating text expressions that are music characters? I always switch to the US layout, when I need the two rightmost programable tool selection keys or when

Re: [Finale] non-US/CA users: keyboard layout

2014-10-30 Thread Eric Fiedler
For some of the most common keyboard shortcuts I've found equivalents on my German keyboard (switching between voice 1 and 2, for instance, is Command-`). For other things – grace notes in particular – I haven't found a key combination that tworks, so I usually switch to US. Which means that I

Re: [Finale] non-US/CA users: keyboard layout

2014-10-30 Thread Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre
I don’t remember needing it for articulations. With tempo indications I use the note selection menu within the expression creation window. Beyond that I have to go to the online keymap anyway. Klaus Sendt fra min iPhone Den 30/10/2014 kl. 09.33 skrev SN jef chippewa

Re: [Finale] non-US/CA users: keyboard layout

2014-10-30 Thread SN jef chippewa
ok thought so, this is one of the many frustrations with existing fonts that led me to design my own more than a decade ago. i am doing some small adjustments and additions now to character layout that have small systems built into each font: lowercase = black noteheads / uppercase = open

Re: [Finale] non-US/CA users: keyboard layout

2014-10-30 Thread SN jef chippewa
hey eric, sounds familiar... you want to see really unusual results, try the hebrew keyboard in finale :-) - but it is a quick way to do a retrograde canon For some of the most common keyboard shortcuts I've found equivalents on my German keyboard (switching between voice 1 and 2, for

Re: [Finale] non-US/CA users: keyboard layout

2014-10-30 Thread Haroldo Mauro
I use the Portuguese keyboard layout/Portuguese keyboard. I learned most of the equivalent keys and it works fine most of the time, but for some symbols there seems to be no equivalent, so when that happens I switch to the US layout. Harold On 30/10/2014, at 05:38, SN jef chippewa wrote: i