Re: [Finale] spacing woes

2007-11-21 Thread Jari Williamsson
dc wrote: Almost two weeks after sending my file to tech support, I am told that they haven't found the solution, but that they've finally noticed the problem! Catching up with the old posts here... Did you send my fix to the problem to them? I think this should be fairly easy to fix, once

Re: [Finale] spacing woes

2007-11-15 Thread Chuck Israels
And beat/note handles often fail to appear when using the measure tool. I don't know if this has to do with showing defined measure numbers or not. I haven't checked it out. Is there another explanation for this? I have also been bitten by the explode music bug - when exploding music

Re: [Finale] spacing woes

2007-11-15 Thread Christopher Smith
On Nov 15, 2007, at 2:45 AM, dc wrote: So there is obviously some dreadful bug induced by the display defined measure numbers option! (Which caused the time signature to change at the real measure number, and not the displayed measure number, though this measure was the only one

Re: [Finale] spacing woes

2007-11-15 Thread dhbailey
dc wrote: Johannes Gebauer écrit: There is definitely something wrong in recent versions, and I am almost certain it is related to linked parts. Something wrong also with the display defined measure numbers option. I seem to recall others had problems with this, but don't remember the

Re: [Finale] spacing woes

2007-11-15 Thread ThomaStudios
FWIW, sometimes when working in FinMac2K7, I can't access beat handles. I've noticed this has something to do with a plugin window being open on my 2nd monitor. Usually TGT or Patterson. Closing that window solves the problem in that case. J D Thomas ThomaStudios On Nov 15, 2007, at

Re: [Finale] spacing woes

2007-11-15 Thread Christopher Smith
On 15-Nov-07, at 9:31 AM, Chuck Israels wrote: And beat/note handles often fail to appear when using the measure tool. I don't know if this has to do with showing defined measure numbers or not. I haven't checked it out. Is there another explanation for this? I have noticed

Re: [Finale] spacing woes

2007-11-14 Thread Jari Williamsson
dc wrote: I have not had the same problems with spacing as your images had shown, so I am trying to narrow down the possible problems. It seems that something in your preferences may be affecting the Music Spacing results. Let us try clearing your Finale preferences: [suggestions follow to

Re: [Finale] spacing woes

2007-11-14 Thread Jari Williamsson
dc wrote: When I complained recently about missing hyphens, they actually suggested I add them as expressions. I believe that's their way of saying that they know about the bug and that you have to use a workaround until they eventually fix it. OK, I'll send it. I took a look at your

Re: [Finale] spacing woes

2007-11-14 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Dennis wrote: I've been using Finale for some 15 years now, and I find that tech support hasn't really improved... to which Jari responded, Very few tech supports have improved during the last 15 years. Virtually all commercial software today rely on user-to-user communities (forums, lists,

Re: [Finale] spacing woes

2007-11-14 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 14.11.2007 Jari Williamsson wrote: I took a look at your file and the frames are indeed corrupted. (I'm a bit curious if you entered the piece all by hand using Simple/Speedy or if you used some import function such as MusicXML import for the data.) I have a file where one single measure

Re: [Finale] spacing woes

2007-11-04 Thread Lawrence David Eden
I noticed that you did not mention testing the file's integrity, removing deleted items. I would certainly give these routines a try...maybe you'll get lucky. If anyone has any other suggestions, please jump in. Waiting for you guys to answer (for which many thanks), I tried several

Re: [Finale] spacing woes

2007-11-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Sun, November 4, 2007 8:05 am, dc wrote: The only way to get rid of the problem is to copy the contents of the file in a new one... and lose all the layout and ajusting work already done. One more thought, and I don't have the thread in front of me to check this. I have found that these

Re: [Finale] spacing woes

2007-11-04 Thread Christopher Smith
On Nov 4, 2007, at 7:25 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: I noticed that you did not mention testing the file's integrity, removing deleted items. I would certainly give these routines a try...maybe you'll get lucky. A nice idea, but these have never helped me out, and I have gotten

Re: [Finale] spacing woes

2007-11-04 Thread Christopher Smith
On Nov 4, 2007, at 8:21 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: On Sun, November 4, 2007 8:05 am, dc wrote: The only way to get rid of the problem is to copy the contents of the file in a new one... and lose all the layout and ajusting work already done. One more thought, and I don't have the

Re: [Finale] spacing woes

2007-11-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Sun, November 4, 2007 11:03 am, dc wrote: I'd be tempted to try that, but how do I find the offending measure? Ah, yes, I see. Having dealt with creeping Finale problems before, my panic response sets in immediately. I go back one version and re-enter from there -- which usually isn't too far

Re: [Finale] spacing woes

2007-11-03 Thread Christopher Smith
On Nov 3, 2007, at 5:06 PM, dc wrote: I'm doing a multi-movement piece in one file, spacing and laying out the movements as I go along. And now, all of a sudden, piece #5 won't space correctly at all, and I haven't changed anything. The notes are at least twice as tight as they should be.

Re: [Finale] spacing woes

2007-11-03 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Sat, November 3, 2007 5:06 pm, dc wrote: I'm doing a multi-movement piece in one file, spacing and laying out the movements as I go along. And now, all of a sudden, piece #5 won't space correctly at all, and I haven't changed anything. The notes are at least twice as tight as they should