[Finale] Punctuation and Word Extensions

2004-03-06 Thread Mario Aschauer
Mark Wrote: I was assuming that Mario learned English as a second language, so I wondered if some outdated source was inadvertently teaching archaic plural forms which are no longer idiomatic. In fact, I did learn English as a second language. Instead of trying to be an odd individual who

[Finale] Translation about Snare drum

2004-03-06 Thread Pierre Bailleul
Hi all, Do you know the right translation of sur le cercle ou sur le fût : on the rim or ??? Thanks in advance. Pierre. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Punctuation and Word Extensions

2004-03-06 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 9:06 AM +0100 3/06/04, Mario Aschauer wrote: Mark Wrote: I was assuming that Mario learned English as a second language, so I wondered if some outdated source was inadvertently teaching archaic plural forms which are no longer idiomatic. In fact, I did learn English as a second language.

Re: [Finale] Accidentals after transposition

2004-03-06 Thread Crystal Premo
Ummmlast time I checked, Eb down a minor third makes C, not C#. You're absolutely right. It wasn't down a minor third which was requested, but down a whole step. Here's another thing about transpositions: if the piece contains accidentals in parentheses and one places them as

Re: [Finale] Accidentals after transposition

2004-03-06 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 06.03.2004 15:09 Uhr, Crystal Premo wrote Here's another thing about transpositions: if the piece contains accidentals in parentheses and one places them as articulations, those articulations stay there in the new key whether they are wanted or not. Why do you place them as articulations?

Re: [Finale] Accidentals after transposition

2004-03-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:09 AM 3/6/2004, Crystal Premo wrote: Ummmlast time I checked, Eb down a minor third makes C, not C#. You're absolutely right. It wasn't down a minor third which was requested, but down a whole step. Okay, then Db would make for a better key signature than C#, wouldn't it? Here's

Re: [Finale] Accidentals after transposition

2004-03-06 Thread Crystal Premo
Why do you place them as articulations? Speedy P does this. For no other reason than because this is the first time it occurred to me. I will henceforth avail myself of the Speedy P method. Crystal Premo [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Get a

Re: [Finale] Accidentals after transposition

2004-03-06 Thread Crystal Premo
For example, in C major, if you have an E with a natural in parens, when you transpose to D major you get an F with the sharp in parens Thanks to both you and Johannes for this enlightenment! Crystal Premo [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Create

Re: [Finale] Punctuation and Word Extensions

2004-03-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
Like all things in language, it's entirely a matter of convention at what point the regular plural becomes correct and the irregular, foreign-language derived plural is dropped. - Darcy So wave goodbye to phenomenon, bacterium, datum, criterion, medium (of communication), and doubtless

Re: [Finale] Punctuation and Word Extensions

2004-03-06 Thread Andrew Stiller
Clearly there are words in which the foreign-derived plural has become well-established in English (eg, theses). mdl I have always enjoyed thinking that a box of kleenex contains numerous kleenices. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/

Re: [Finale] Punctuation and Word Extensions

2004-03-06 Thread David H. Bailey
I agree with all of the words Andrew is talking about except phenomena. I never hear anybody speak of the plural of phenomenon. I don't hear the singular that often either, but I do hear it far more frequently than the plural. I bet that if either get dropped it'll be the plural, so we'll

Re: [Finale] Punctuation and Word Extensions

2004-03-06 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Oh, and the singular of data is the safe version: data point. Dennis ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Punctuation and Word Extensions

2004-03-06 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 12:44 PM 3/6/04 -0500, David H. Bailey wrote: I agree with all of the words Andrew is talking about except phenomena. I never hear anybody speak of the plural of phenomenon. I don't hear the singular that often either, but I do hear it far more frequently If you listen to enough CNN

Re: [Finale] OT: Plurals (was: Punctuation and Word Extensions)

2004-03-06 Thread Bruce K H Kau
At least among my college buddies, we called the numerous visitors to these Hawaiian Islands as tourii. (Kind of a stretch, I know) At 12:08 PM 3/6/2004 -0500, Andrew Stiller wrote: Clearly there are words in which the foreign-derived plural has become well-established in English (eg,

[Finale] Mac G5 (ot)

2004-03-06 Thread Bob Florence
Hi all: I am planning to purchase a Mac G5 this summer. I will be using Fin Mac 2004. I mainly use the computer for music, e mail, browsing, pictures and word processing. That's it. Which one would you all suggest? Thanks: Bob Florence ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Mac G5 (ot)

2004-03-06 Thread Javier Ruiz
In summer? By then the line of G5 will have been renewed, so you´ll have to make the question just before the purchase date. [But from your message I´d say that you only need an iMac. (Unless you are going to use Logic or software samplers).] Javier Ruiz. Hi all: I am planning to purchase a

Re: [Finale] Accidentals after transposition

2004-03-06 Thread John Howell
At 9:37 PM -0500 3/5/04, Crystal Premo wrote: The piece I'm talking about specifically today is More from Dick Tracy. This is a piece with no guitar chords. It started out in Eb, and taking it down a minor third (which is what women usually want) by putting it in C# left only one double

[Finale] Re: F2003a won't print to acrobat

2004-03-06 Thread jef chippewa
i haven't solved the problem yet, but have narrowed the scope down a bit. macfin2k3a printing to acrobat v.5, G4/400 OS 9.2.2/384 RAM, finale accorded 75M. i deleted all fonts installed by finale, as well as any version of them i had floating around in other places on my HD and reinstalled

Re: [Finale] Re: F2003a won't print to acrobat

2004-03-06 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Have you tried printing to a postscript file then running distiller on the file? Have you also tried the Check Document Fonts Against System Fonts? ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Re: F2003a won't print to acrobat

2004-03-06 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 06.03.2004 23:08 Uhr, jef chippewa wrote is it possible that the installation CD or the finale application which it installs is corrupt somehow? Very unlikely. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___

Re: [Finale] Accidentals after transposition

2004-03-06 Thread Crystal Premo
But choosing between C# and Db I would take Db every time. (Trivia: What key did Andrew Lloyd Webber write most of his most important songs in? Db.) I chose Db as well, but for what this client wants to pay, he will have to take it in C# or pay more to have me take out all the double

Re: [Finale] Re: F2003a won't print to acrobat

2004-03-06 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 03:08 PM 3/6/04 -0700, jef chippewa wrote: i still can't print to acrobat from finale, getting this message: %%[ Error: invalidaccess; OffendingCommand: def ]%% Stack: -dict- /FinaleDict /Courier %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No

RE: [Finale] Ricoh AP 2610

2004-03-06 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Friday, March 05, 2004 6:36 PM, Bob Florence wrote: Hi all: I know this has been discussed before. What Ricoh printer has replaced the AP 2610? Any information would be helpful. If this helps, a friend of mine just bought the AP2610N at a very reasonable price on eBay. It uses the

Re: [Finale] Ricoh AP 2610

2004-03-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
Yeah, the Ricoh manual is singularly unhelpful. Any Ricoh owners on the list bought the 802.11b wireless network card? My router is on the opposite side of the apartment from my printer, so an Ethernet hookup isn't really viable. The card is expensive, but so's the regular network card. And

Re: [Finale] Translation about Snare drum

2004-03-06 Thread Ryan Beard
Pierre, I think le fût literally means the barrel. So I take it to mean play on the side of the instrument. Ryan === Hi all, Do you know the right translation of sur le cercle ou sur le fût : on the rim or ??? Thanks in advance. Pierre.

[Finale] Re: F2003a won't print to acrobat

2004-03-06 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 3:08 PM -0700 3/06/04, jef chippewa wrote: i haven't solved the problem yet, but have narrowed the scope down a bit. macfin2k3a printing to acrobat v.5, G4/400 OS 9.2.2/384 RAM, finale accorded 75M. jef, This is a routine I got from this list (I think it was Johannes Gebauer, thanks

Re: [Finale] Translation about Snare drum

2004-03-06 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
That would be on the shell, to use the percussion-specific term. Christopher At 5:11 PM -0800 3/06/04, Ryan Beard wrote: Pierre, I think le fšt literally means the barrel. So I take it to mean play on the side of the instrument. Ryan === Hi all, Do you know the right

OT: Plurals (was Re: [Finale] Punctuation and Word Extensions)

2004-03-06 Thread Mark D Lew
On Mar 6, 2004, at 9:04 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: So wave goodbye to phenomenon, bacterium, datum, criterion, medium (of communication), and doubtless others I can't think of right now. All of these were in common use 30 years ago, but are now disappearing rapidly, and I imagine they'll be

Re: [Finale] Accidentals after transposition

2004-03-06 Thread Mark D Lew
On Mar 6, 2004, at 1:51 PM, John Howell wrote: I assume that was a typo, Crystal. A minor 3rd down from Eb would be C. But choosing between C# and Db I would take Db every time. Not me. Not every time. I would tend to prefer Db, but you've got to consider the specifics of the song. Suppose

Re: OT: Plurals (was Re: [Finale] Punctuation and Word Extensions)

2004-03-06 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 05:46 PM 3/6/04 -0800, Mark D Lew wrote: The same might apply to platypi. A platypo. :) Dennis ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale