[Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-20 Thread Ryan Beard
Hello Listers and Lurkers, I’m working on a song cycle for a client. He wants a table of contents with dot leaders to appear at the front of the collection. I know Finale’s Text Block tool is pretty primitive, but can it handle something like this? Is there away to make the “tab” a fixed distance

[Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-21 Thread Ryan Beard
Thanks for all of the responses. I should have noted that I want this all in one document so I can make a booklet on my large format printer. And I do want the convenience of just printing one document and being done with it. Is it worth it to make a feature request to Finale to make text block im

Re: [Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-21 Thread dhbailey
Ryan Beard wrote: Hello Listers and Lurkers, I’m working on a song cycle for a client. He wants a table of contents with dot leaders to appear at the front of the collection. I know Finale’s Text Block tool is pretty primitive, but can it handle something like this? Is there away to make the “tab”

Re: [Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-21 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 21.09.2004 12:12 Uhr, dhbailey wrote > Finale won't do what you want, but if it's a separate page, why not just > print it in MSWord? I do that all the time for my title pages, tables > of contents and any explanatory notes for a work that are more than a > single paragraph. > > There's no ne

Re: [Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-21 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Ryan Beard wrote: I’m working on a song cycle for a client. He wants a table of contents with dot leaders to appear at the front of the collection. I know Finale’s Text Block tool is pretty primitive, but can it handle something like this? Is there away to make the “tab” a fixed distance rather tha

Re: [Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-21 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Clarifying what I wrote: In setting a page of a table of contents, a printer would set the text, then inset a solid line of dots of the necessary width, then set the page number. The foundries which cast type also sold metal strips with dots at specific intervals along the strip, with the sizes

Re: [Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-21 Thread Godofredo Romero
Haven't you considered converting all, your Finale and MS Word docs to PDF and printing from there? pdf allows you to impose your document any way you want or need, and you can choose whatever resolution you desire. Godofredo dhbailey wrote: Ryan Beard wrote: Hello Listers and Lurkers, I’m worki

Re: [Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-21 Thread dhbailey
Ryan Beard wrote: Thanks for all of the responses. I should have noted that I want this all in one document so I can make a booklet on my large format printer. And I do want the convenience of just printing one document and being done with it. Is it worth it to make a feature request to Finale to

Re: [Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-21 Thread Raymond Horton
The ability to import text to a text block from a Word processor, keeping the formatting intact, would be a big help, too. dhbailey wrote: It would be fantastic if MakeMusic would make huge improvements in their text block functions -- the ability to create a completely aligned table of content

Re: [Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-21 Thread James Bailey
I imagine the easiest way to create this would be to print a .ps rather than a .pdf. The .ps should import directly into finale. In your print dialog, in the output option, select postscript, and that will save a file that finale can import. I imagine this would be the easiest way to solve this pro

Re: [Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-21 Thread David W. Fenton
On 21 Sep 2004 at 14:49, Raymond Horton wrote: > The ability to import text to a text block from a Word processor, > keeping the formatting intact, would be a big help, too. That will never happen, because Mac and PC have two completely different standards for object embedding and data intercha

Re: [Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-22 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 22.09.2004 4:02 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote >> The ability to import text to a text block from a Word processor, >> keeping the formatting intact, would be a big help, too. > > That will never happen, because Mac and PC have two completely > different standards for object embedding and data int

Re: [Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-22 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 21.09.2004 18:02 Uhr, Ryan Beard wrote > Thanks for all of the responses. I should have noted > that I want this all in one document so I can make a > booklet on my large format printer. And I do want the > convenience of just printing one document and being > done with it. As I said, if your

Re: [Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-22 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 21.09.2004 20:08 Uhr, James Bailey wrote > I imagine the easiest way to create this would be to print a .ps rather than > a .pdf. The .ps should import directly into finale. In your print dialog, in > the output option, select postscript, and that will save a file that finale > can import. I im

Re: [Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-22 Thread dhbailey
Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 21.09.2004 18:02 Uhr, Ryan Beard wrote Thanks for all of the responses. I should have noted that I want this all in one document so I can make a booklet on my large format printer. And I do want the convenience of just printing one document and being done with it. As I

Re: [Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-22 Thread David W. Fenton
On 22 Sep 2004 at 12:04, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 22.09.2004 4:02 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote > > >> The ability to import text to a text block from a Word processor, > >> keeping the formatting intact, would be a big help, too. > > > > That will never happen, because Mac and PC have two comp

Re: [Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
On 22 Sep 2004 at 12:04, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 22.09.2004 4:02 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote >> The ability to import text to a text block from a Word processor, >> keeping the formatting intact, would be a big help, too. > > That will never happen, because Mac and PC have two completely >

Re: [Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-23 Thread dhbailey
Andrew Stiller wrote: On 22 Sep 2004 at 12:04, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 22.09.2004 4:02 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote >> The ability to import text to a text block from a Word processor, >> keeping the formatting intact, would be a big help, too. > > That will never happen, because Mac and PC h

Re: [Finale] table of contents and MS Word

2004-09-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 Sep 2004 at 11:52, Andrew Stiller wrote: > >On 22 Sep 2004 at 12:04, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > > > >> On 22.09.2004 4:02 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote > >> > >> >> The ability to import text to a text block from a Word processor, > >> >> keeping the formatting intact, would be a big help, to