Re: [Finale] to upgrade or not to upgrade

2004-04-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 20 Apr 2004, at 05:55 PM, Martin Banner wrote: I have been using Finale 2003 on my Mac quite satisfactorily, thank you, for well over a year, even on my brand new Powerbook laptop. I've been considering upgrading to FinMac 2004, but have seen all the posts here about bug after bug after

Re: [Finale] INSTALLATION ALERT - 2004B MAC

2004-04-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
However, it's still weird that Finale updaters leave the old application intact by default. This is not standard at all -- the expected behavior is that the old version will be replaced by the new version. We're all used to it by now, since Finale's always been like this, but it would be

Re: [Finale] to upgrade or not to upgrade

2004-04-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 21 Apr 2004, at 04:23 PM, Martin Banner wrote: Darcy, Thanks for the tip. Have you had the opportunity to use the smart hypen capability? I have had so many discussions with Randy Stokes over the years about including this, since I use Finale exclusively with choral music (I have nearly 90

Re: [Finale] INSTALLATION ALERT - 2004B MAC

2004-04-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 21 Apr 2004, at 04:51 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: I beg to differ. That is not the expected behavior. Almost every OS X application I've done updates on will leave the older version there. ??? None of Apple's apps (Safari, Mail, iTunes, iPhoto, iCal, iSync, etc etc etc.) do this. Nor does MS

Re: [Finale] MacOSX, FinMac 2003, HPLaserjet2200 and printing

2004-04-18 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 18 Apr 2004, at 06:02 AM, Martin Banner wrote: Darcy, Thanks for your patience and your help. Everything works fine now. Terrific! Glad I could help. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Re: FinMac2004

2004-04-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 17 Apr 2004, at 05:34 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 17.04.2004 6:03 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote The Staff List Manager has a Redraw button that is supposed to update the distance between staves based on the changes you've made, without closing the dialog box. This button doesn't work

Re: [Finale] Re: FinMac2004

2004-04-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 17 Apr 2004, at 06:05 AM, Mark D Lew wrote: On Apr 17, 2004, at 2:21 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Also, some people -- like Mark Lew -- are particular about the distance between staves -- when they increase or decrease the distance between staves, they always do so by multiples of one staff

Re: [Finale] Re: FinMac2004

2004-04-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 17 Apr 2004, at 07:17 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 17.04.2004 11:40 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote Interesting. For me, the button doesn't work no matter how many times I press it. The screen doesn't redraw until I close the Staff List Manager. Do you also have the problem with the Edit

Re: [Finale] Re: FinMac2004

2004-04-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 17 Apr 2004, at 09:19 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 17.04.2004 15:03 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote I guess I'll have to recreate my preferences again. I *hate* doing that. I just hope the problem doesn't keep coming back. Save yourself some trouble: Keep a backup of your prefs file

Re: [Finale] MacFin2004b Feedback

2004-04-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
I note with no small enthusiasm that in MacFin2004b, leaving the message bar on no longer causes Mass Edit and large plugin operations to slow to a crawl. Good work, Coda gang. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] MacFin2004b Feedback

2004-04-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 17 Apr 2004, at 12:00 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I note with no small enthusiasm that in MacFin2004b, leaving the message bar on no longer causes Mass Edit and large plugin operations to slow to a crawl. Good work, Coda gang. Mind you, it's still slower with the Message Bar on. It's just

Re: [Finale] Re: FinMac2004

2004-04-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 17 Apr 2004, at 05:48 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: On Apr 17, 2004, at 6:03 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I guess I'll have to recreate my preferences again. I *hate* doing that. I just hope the problem doesn't keep coming back. Do you have to recreate ALL of them? Yes. Of course, I have recent

Re: [Finale] MacOSX, FinMac 2003, HPLaserjet2200 and printing

2004-04-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
Layout - Print on both sides. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY On 17 Apr 2004, at 06:20 PM, Martin Banner wrote: In order to be able to print from my HP Laserjet2200 laser printer using FinMac2003 on my new Mac laptop with OSX (which runs FinMac2003 in classic), I had to download

Re: [Finale] MacOSX, FinMac 2003, HPLaserjet2200 and printing

2004-04-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 17 Apr 2004, at 06:45 PM, Martin Banner wrote: Did that, but have to take paper out and reinsert for it to print on other side. Pre-adobe driver, my HP Printer, with duplexing capabilities, double sided automatically. Is this no longer an option for me? I don't think you understood what I

Re: [Finale] MacOSX, FinMac 2003, HPLaserjet2200 and printing

2004-04-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
I did that. When I click on double sided printing in the Layout tab of the Print dialogue box, I then get beneath that the following two items... Input (with a choice of Face Up/Face Down) Output (with a choice of Face Up/Face Down) But it doesnt seem to print automatically on both

Re: [Finale] MacOSX, FinMac 2003, HPLaserjet2200 and printing

2004-04-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 17 Apr 2004, at 08:31 PM, Martin Banner wrote: I have to use the Adobe Postscript Driver, because if I don't, I get a postscript error message from the Printer Utility on my Mac Powerbook laptop. This is really frustrating. The Adobe Postscript Driver is *not* the same thing as the HP

[Finale] FinMac2004

2004-04-16 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 16 Apr 2004, at 02:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had the same problem with command z failing to work from time to time, and other recalcitrant behavior, like working with the page layout tool, putting in new values for page or system margins, seeing Finale calculate the new data

Re: [Finale] MacFin2004b Feedback

2004-04-16 Thread Darcy James Argue
David Fenton: If you're copying large blocks of music, why *wouldn't* you want the clef *changes* copied along with the music, especially when the destination is on the same staff as the source? Because most of the time, I'm copying vertically, not horizontally. Even when I'm copying

Re: [Finale] MacFin2004b Feedback

2004-04-16 Thread Darcy James Argue
While we're on this digression -- no one else has any specific MacFin2004b comments??? -- I've never understood why the Cut (cmd-X) command doesn't remove smart shapes -- even if smart shapes are checked in the move measure items dialog. Why do we need a separate menu item for Clear Entires

[Finale] Re: FinMac2004

2004-04-16 Thread Darcy James Argue
are having this issue? On 16 Apr 2004, at 10:49 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: On Apr 16, 2004, at 1:49 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 16 Apr 2004, at 02:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had the same problem with command z failing to work from time to time, and other recalcitrant behavior, like

[Finale] Enter key, undo shortcut bugs in MacFin2004

2004-04-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi guys, Occasionally, MacFin2004 will stop recognizing the enter key. Just stop. You can't use it in Speedy to replace entries, you can't use it in dialog boxes, it just doesn't see it. Other currently running applications see the Enter key just fine, but Finale doesn't. Sometimes, not

[Finale] Re: Enter key, undo shortcut bugs in MacFin2004

2004-04-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 15 Apr 2004, at 05:42 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I am really, really, really looking forward to the patch Ask and you shall receive, I guess. http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/ When was 2004b released? I somehow got unsubscribed from the list, so I missed any discussion. - Darcy

[Finale] MacFin2004b in Classic?

2004-04-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Unless there is some trick to it that I'm not aware of, it seems that peoples' fears were true -- there does not appear to be any way to run MacFin2004b in the Classic environment. Or am I missing something? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY

Re: [Finale] Re: Enter key, undo shortcut bugs in MacFin2004

2004-04-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
For what it's worth, my Enter key problem was entirely user error. I had inadvertently mapped the Enter key to a shortcut in iKey. (I was trying to Enter my way out of a dialog box in iKey, which obviously doesn't work if the keyboard shortcut field has the focus. Duh.) The occasional

Re: [Finale] MacFin2004b in Classic?

2004-04-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 15 Apr 2004, at 07:30 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Um, why would you want to? Or am I missing something as well? Because native OS X performance of Finale 2004 is so abysmal -- even compared to, for example, Finale 2003 in Classic. If there were a separate app for Fin2004 for OS 9, and it ran

Re: [Finale] MacFin2004b in Classic?

2004-04-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 15 Apr 2004, at 07:43 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: The website says that the download only updates the OSX version. For it to be able to run in OS9, you have to get the CD. That's not what I took it to mean -- I thought the 2004b updater would create a switch-hitting Carbon app that could run in

Re: [Finale] MacFin2004b in Classic?

2004-04-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
, at 09:32 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Eric, I *have* a G4 upgrade card for my beige box, running at 533 MHz (which was the best available upgrade at the time I bought it). And I have 768 MB of RAM. Finale 2004 is still incredibly slow, almost unusably slow, even compared to earlier versions

[Finale] MacFin2002b Feedback

2004-04-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Seems we could use a general thread on this. One thing I noticed just now -- the items in the Copy Entry Items dialog are now in alphabetical order. Although this makes logical sense, it does mean that Clefs -- the one item I almost never want copied when I'm moving entry items -- is now

Re: [Finale] MacFin2004b Feedback

2004-04-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 16 Apr 2004, at 01:12 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Seems we could use a general thread on this. Or maybe not. Maybe MacFin2004b Feedback would be more... I don't know... timely. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY ___ Finale mailing list

[Finale] MAJOR FILESAVE BUG in Finale 2004

2004-04-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, I wish I had a way to reproduce this one, because it's a biggie: Finale just overwrote one file with another file without asking me. Specifically, what happened was I quit Finale 2004 when several files were open. Normally, Finale would have asked me if I wanted to review unsaved

Re: [Finale] Mac Finale and Radeon screen rotation

2004-04-03 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 03 Apr 2004, at 09:11 PM, Rocky Road wrote: Okay, so my excitement was premature. Nothing has changed. From the ReadMe: VERSAVISION is currently only available for RADEON 9800 Pro Mac Edition. So, no display rotation for the rest of us. [sigh] is Versavision the rotation technology? Yep.

Re: [Finale] time signature change

2004-04-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
I think what Bob wants to do, in addition to changing the time signature from 4/4 to cut time, is also to double all the note values -- turn sixteenths into eighths, etc. This is easy enough to do with the Mass Edit tool -- just select Change - Note Durations, then select Change all durations

Re: [Finale] TAN: Rave Act protest scheduled

2004-04-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
John, The RAVE act is absolutely not an urban legend. Go to the ACLU's web page to find out more. The Republicans have been trying to pass this for years, and they finally got it by appending it to the AMBER alert bill (otherwise known as the Elizabeth Smart act), a very popular bill which

Re: [Finale] TAN: Rave Act protest scheduled

2004-04-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
A recent story on the impact of the RAVE act: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0410/spartos.php Public policy, however, is not so mutable. Weeks after the botched study was published, its conclusions were repeatedly invoked by witnesses at a House subcommittee hearing on the Reducing

Re: [Finale] TAN: Rave Act protest scheduled

2004-04-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
endorses this stance. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY On 02 Apr 2004, at 04:56 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: On Apr 2, 2004, at 11:40 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: The RAVE act is absolutely not an urban legend. Go to the ACLU's web page to find out more. The Republicans have been trying

Re: [Finale] Mac Finale and Radeon screen rotation

2004-04-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
That's SO COOL! Robert and I had speculated about this several months back, but I wasn't sure they'd ever do it, let alone grandfather the feature into their *entire retail line*! I'm going to go try it right now! (By the way, I don't know if this is totally kosher for the list, but I have

Re: [Finale] Mac Finale and Radeon screen rotation

2004-04-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
Okay, so my excitement was premature. Nothing has changed. From the ReadMe: VERSAVISION is currently only available for RADEON 9800 Pro Mac Edition. So, no display rotation for the rest of us. [sigh] - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY

Re: [Finale] chromatic transposition

2004-04-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Bob, You should set up staff styles for each transposing instrument, set to the appropriate chromatic transposition, then apply those styles to measures 1-80. (If it's just a standard big band with AATTB saxes, you will only need four staff styles -- one for the altos, one for the tenors,

Re: [Finale] Midisport 2X2 vs MacFin 2004

2004-04-01 Thread Darcy James Argue
Could you be a little more specific about your problem? I your MIDI interface working in other OS X MIDI applications? Did you set up your interface in Audio MIDI Setup yet? If not, you should start with that -- Audio MIDI Setup is found in Applications/Utilities. - Darcy - [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius in this month's Keyboard Magazine

2004-04-01 Thread Darcy James Argue
For those who actually have the issue -- what's the cover date? I looked in the Brooklyn Barnes and Noble today, and they have the April issue, which didn't have the Finale vs. Sibelius. Did I miss it already, or are BN an issue behind? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY

Re: [Finale] MacFin 2003 and Mac Powerbook G4 Laptop

2004-03-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
Steve, Martin said he has a new PowerBook G4, so there's absolutely no need for him to go scouring eBay for OS 9.2.2. A fully functional Classic system folder (OS 9.2.2) came preinstalled on his computer. What he's asking about is an error message that pops up when you try to install Finale

[Finale] Character Palette Support

2004-03-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi gang, I know you have a lot of pressing issues on your plate with FinMac2004, and I hate to add to the pile, BUT... It would be nice you guys support the OS X character palette. (If you're not familiar with the character palette, it can be turned on in System Preferences - International -

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius in this month's Keyboard Magazine

2004-03-25 Thread Darcy James Argue
I should mention that I found out about this issue of Keyboard from composer (and Village Voice new music critic) Kyle Gann, who has some thoughts on his blog about Sibelius (his music notation software of choice) and about the influence of notation software on the composition process:

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius in this month's Keyboard Magazine

2004-03-25 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 25 Mar 2004, at 07:01 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: However, when Sib3 saves files in Sib2 format, you lose all of the new features that Sib3 has initiated, such as colors that correspond to some school music instrument made out of colored tubes that kids whack when they see that colored note.

Re: [Finale] First and Second Ending brackets in Jazz font

2004-03-25 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Ron, The repeat bracket isn't a font character. It's just made up of lines. When you're using JazzFont, you will want to increase the thickness of a lot of Finale's lines (like the repeat brackets, but also tuplet brackets, hairpins, etc.) so that it looks more like manuscript. My

Re: [Finale] Kyle Gann's Articles on Sibelius

2004-03-25 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 25 Mar 2004, at 01:41 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: What about this example he gives: For the record, heres what I used to be able to do in Encore that I cant in Sibelius: Henry Cowell, in his masterful 1930 book New Musical Resources, suggested that tuplets, as theyre now called

Re: [Finale] Kyle Gann's Articles on Sibelius

2004-03-25 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 25 Mar 2004, at 02:32 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: One way might be to change the time signature to 12/8 (but display as 4/4), which would (I think) allow you to enter the three notes of the big tuplet at the appropriate rhythmic points without having to use tuplets at all. Wait, no, I

Re: [Finale] Kyle Gann's Articles on Sibelius

2004-03-25 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 25 Mar 2004, at 02:55 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Also, I think you might not have to use the 12/8, that nested triplets might have worked just as well. But like I said, I found it easier to work out in 12/8. Actually, once I thought about it a little further, the nested triplet solution

Re: [Finale] Kyle Gann's Articles on Sibelius

2004-03-25 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 25 Mar 2004, at 03:22 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 25 Mar 2004 at 14:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for being monstrously thick, but I don't understand the problem here and I have obviously not understood the initial description of what the writer is trying to do. My understanding of the

[Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius in this month's Keyboard Magazine

2004-03-24 Thread Darcy James Argue
http://www.keyboardmag.com/ (sadly, the article is not available online) Anyone read this? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius in this month's Keyboard Magazine

2004-03-24 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 24 Mar 2004, at 07:46 PM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: Yep! What did you think? As someone who has used both, you should be in a good position to critique the review. Haven't read it. Was curious if others thought it was worthwhile. I guess I'll pick it up next time I'm near somewhere that

[Finale] OT: VPC Taping Machine

2004-03-24 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, I have a question about the VPC taping machine. The whole point of the machine is to fan multiple pages slightly so that the tape can catch the edge of the paper. But, of course, this results in an uneven right edge once the tape is applied. I was curious how others deal with this.

[Finale] Mac/Fin04 Cautionary Accidentals

2004-03-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi David, I had a post on this not long ago. I think I can explain -- not justify -- some of the plugin's mysterious behavior. I do encourage everyone to write MacSupport (and WinSupport) about this. The Cautionary Accidentals plugin has never worked properly, even after Coda adopted

[Finale] Expression positioning in Fin2004

2004-03-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi gang, With all of the new options for expression positioning in Finale 2004, I thought it might be fun to have a thread where people could share their preferred settings. (Of course, some people will want to keep their secrets ) For starters, what do people use for their above-staff and

Re: [Finale] Expression positioning in Fin2004

2004-03-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 21 Mar 2004, at 03:09 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 02:55 PM 03/21/2004, Darcy James Argue wrote: (For note expressions, I think Coda's defaults (center, center) result in dynamics that appear too far to the right. I like center, left myself. Yes, but one problem is that you will often find

Re: [Finale] Expression positioning in Fin2004

2004-03-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 21 Mar 2004, at 03:24 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 03:14 PM 03/21/2004, Darcy James Argue wrote: Correction: As for the vertical positioning, I like an entry offset of -9 pt.) I meant -12 pt. Do you really mean points, Darcy, or EVPU? 12 pt. is 1/6 of an inch, which seems like a lot. No, I

Re: [Finale] Hide Message Bar

2004-03-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 21 Mar 2004, at 06:59 PM, Harold Owen wrote: Raymond Horton writes: (Sorry for accidentally double clicking and sending a blank reply earlier.) So, as long as I am being the doofus here, again, I'll go the second mile: How DOES one hide the Message Bar? Are we talking about the little

[Finale] MacFin2004 Measure Region Bug

2004-03-20 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, There is a bug in MacFin2004 that occurs whenever you have 10 or more measure number regions in a single document and Display Defined Measure Numbers turned on. In Scroll View, when you are viewing measure region 10 or above, only the first digit of the defined measure number displays

[Finale] Re: Auto-Save Stall Bug

2004-03-19 Thread Darcy James Argue
to comment on the quality of our Technical Support: http://www.finalemusic.com/support/tech-comments.asp?tech=brian Introducing Finale 2004. See the new features and purchase for Macintosh and Windows at http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/f2k4/ -Original Message- From: Darcy James

[Finale] MacFin 2004 - Display Expressions for Parts not working?

2004-03-19 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hey gang, I've never used this feature before, so I don't know if it's broken in MacFin2004 or I just don't understand how it's supposed to work. I have an expression assigned to a staff list that is set to Always Show On Top Score Staff and Always Show On Top Part Staff. When I turn on

Re: [Finale] Re: 150% shortucut, etc.

2004-03-18 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 18 Mar 2004, at 01:35 PM, Rob Deemer wrote: I've even moved the keystroke for Fit Measures back to the Command-M that it used to be pre-FinMac 2004. Hi Rob, Glad iKey is working out for you. FWIW, I think the reason Coda stopped using cmd-M for Fit Measures is that cmd-M is supposed to be

Re: [Finale] Graphics tablets

2004-03-18 Thread Darcy James Argue
Owain, If you don't have a lightweight optical mouse, I highly recommend getting one. They are much easier on the hand and wrist than a conventional mouse. I have the Logitech optical mouse w/scroll wheel, and a Kensington mousepad with gel wrist support, and this has made a huge

[Finale] Hide Message Bar

2004-03-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
This tip might be especially relevant for people using FinMac2004 and trying to eke out productivity gains wherever they can: turn off the message bar. This makes a *dramatic* difference in Mass Edit operations like note spacing, and also in any plugin that affects a large number of measures

Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

2004-03-16 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 16 Mar 2004, at 05:59 AM, Dennis W. Manasco wrote: At 3:43 pm -0500 3/15/04, Phil Daley wrote: In a Windows app, it is not possible to have cascaded windows and maximized windows at the same time. As soon as you maximize one cascaded window, all the rest are automatically maximized, too.

Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

2004-03-16 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 16 Mar 2004, at 12:53 PM, Phil Daley wrote: Maximizing an application is a totally different process, something I would never ever do. It would then take up the whole screen. I cannot ever imagine a circumstance when this would be something I would want to do. You cannot *imagine*? You

Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

2004-03-16 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 16 Mar 2004, at 01:49 PM, Phil Daley wrote: I can't imagine needing to see more than a whole page at once, in 100% page view, that would take up about a half a screen. [boggle] You never zoom past 100%? Again, I have a feeling you might be in the minority. I can't image what possible

[Finale] Great news for Ricoh AP2610 owners! (Mac OS X)

2004-03-16 Thread Darcy James Argue
I can hardly believe it! The latest update to OS X (10.3.3) fixes USB printing for the Ricoh AP2610! No more cumbersome plugging and unplugging the USB cable between print jobs! Everything works the way it's supposed to work! (And to think I was *this* close to spending over $300 on the

Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

2004-03-16 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 16 Mar 2004, at 05:10 PM, Phil Daley wrote: At 3/16/2004 01:57 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: You never zoom past 100%? Why would I? Everything is readable at that point. As David said, fine-tuning of positioning of *anything* in Finale -- slurs, lyrics, articulations, expressions, etc

[Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

2004-03-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi guys, One minor annoyance in Mac Finale is that when opening multiple documents, the windows are tiled (i.e., the window position is offset down and to the right) rather than stacked directly on top of each other. This means that if you actually want to maximize your screen real estate

[Finale] Feature Request: Tabbed windows

2004-03-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, As a lot of us are getting used to tabbed windows in web browsers like Safari and Mozilla, it strikes me that a lot of users might want this same functionality in Finale -- that it may be faster to select windows by clicking on tabs then by going to the Window menu, or by cycling

Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

2004-03-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 15 Mar 2004, at 03:08 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 15 Mar 2004 at 14:43, Darcy James Argue wrote: One minor annoyance in Mac Finale is that when opening multiple documents, the windows are tiled (i.e., the window position is offset down and to the right) rather than stacked directly on top

Re: [Finale] Feature Request: Tabbed windows

2004-03-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
. If you updated the score (notes, articulations, dynamics) it would update the related parts. Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi all, As a lot of us are getting used to tabbed windows in web browsers like Safari and Mozilla, it strikes me that a lot of users might want this same

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2003 on a Mac G4 Laptop

2004-03-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 15 Mar 2004, at 03:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm seriously considering getting a Mac G4 Powerbook laptop, and want to make sure I won't have any problems running FinMac 2003 on it in Classic. Martin, No more problems than you would have with another other Mac. The main issue with

[Finale] Fin2004 -- minimize to Dock bug

2004-03-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, The universal OS X shortcut for Minimize to Dock is supposed to be command-M. For some reason, this appears to be disabled in Finale 2004 -- command-M has no effect. I especially miss this shortcut when dealing with plugins that float a window on top of the existing document. I have

[Finale] Minimize to Dock bug

2004-03-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Correction: I was wrong -- iKey *can* minimize Finale windows and plugin windows. Still, we should not have to use a third-party utility for this -- command-M should work in Finale as it does in every other OS X app. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY

Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

2004-03-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Meanwhile, I just discovered a very neat feature of iKey -- under the Window shortcuts, there is an option to Zoom (minimize) All. Nice. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling

2004-03-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 15 Mar 2004, at 05:09 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Meanwhile, I just discovered a very neat feature of iKey -- under the Window shortcuts, there is an option to Zoom (minimize) All. Nice. Except, as I also just discovered, this feature doesn't work in Finale. Not nice. - Darcy

Re: [Finale] chromatic transposition

2004-03-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Bob, You can do this by creating a staff style -- or rather, several staff styles. You will need one for each type of transposition used in the piece (e.g., one for the trumpets and/or soprano sax, one for the alto saxes, one for the tenor saxes and/or bass clarinet, and one for bari

[Finale] Auto-Save Stall Bug

2004-03-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, I frequently encounter this bug in MacFin2004 -- if you have auto-save every X minutes turned on, when auto-saving an untitled document, Finale will prompt you to name it and specify a save location. That's all well and good, but it seems that Finale 2004 frequently hangs when the

Re: [Finale] Auto-Save Stall Bug

2004-03-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 14 Mar 2004, at 04:28 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On Sunday, March 14, 2004 11:03 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi all, I frequently encounter this bug in MacFin2004 -- if you have auto-save every X minutes turned on, when auto-saving an untitled document, Finale will prompt you to name

[Finale] Smart hyphens = disappearing hyphens?

2004-03-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hello, In FinMac 2004, I notice that turning on Smart Hyphens causes many hyphens to disappear entirely. Anyone else observe this behavior? Does this happen in the Windows version? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] Smart hyphens = disappearing hyphens?

2004-03-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY On 13 Mar 2004, at 08:17 AM, d. collins wrote: Darcy James Argue écrit: In FinMac 2004, I notice that turning on Smart Hyphens causes many hyphens to disappear entirely. Anyone else observe this behavior? Does this happen in the Windows

Re: [Finale] Smart hyphens = disappearing hyphens?

2004-03-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 13 Mar 2004, at 08:26 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I think I described it pretty exactly -- the hyphens are there in the document, and when you turn on smart hyphens, they disappear. They don't display and they don't print. When you turn smart hyphens off again, they reappear. I

Re: [Finale] Smart hyphens = disappearing hyphens?

2004-03-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 13 Mar 2004, at 08:31 AM, d. collins wrote: Darcy James Argue écrit: I think I described it pretty exactly -- the hyphens are there in the document, and when you turn on smart hyphens, they disappear. They don't display and they don't print. When you turn smart hyphens off again

Re: [Finale] MacFin04 install issues

2004-03-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Robert, I haven't seen that error message, and I don't have the problem with the MIDI setup settings not taking. I presume you've tried to save your preferences manually? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn NY On 13 Mar 2004, at 09:28 AM, Robert Patterson Finale wrote: Has anyone

Re: [Finale] JW Space systems

2004-03-12 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 12 Mar 2004, at 03:48 AM, d. collins wrote: Barbara Touburg écrit: Hurray! Today Finale 2004 finally arrived. Great program, lots of new things to try out. But: after I've finished my current project though. So I opened one of the files I'm currently working on, tried to run JW Space

Re: [Finale] JW Space systems

2004-03-12 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 12 Mar 2004, at 04:09 AM, d. collins wrote: Darcy James Argue écrit: Mac version, Dennis. Finale 2004 only exists (so far) for OS X, and the old plugins don't work in OS X. ?? Barbara, who posted the original message in the thread, seems to be using Windows (User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows

Re: [Finale] iKey

2004-03-11 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Brad, Your system is probably a lot faster than mine. I'm on Panther, too -- don't know if that makes a difference. Stuff like just picking which application you want to create a menu shortcut in in QuicKeys is *interminably* slow on my machine (542 MHz G4 upgrade card). And QuicKeys

[Finale] 12x18 printing on Ricoh AP2610

2004-03-11 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, Has anyone had any success getting this to work? 12x18 is not officially supported by this printer -- the official max is 12x17. You are also required to program the bypass tray size on the printer itself, so that's the largest paper size it will accept -- 12x17. However, the

Re: [Finale] 12x18 printing on Ricoh AP2610

2004-03-11 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 11 Mar 2004, at 05:31 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 11.03.2004 21:15 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote One thing that I haven't tried yet, but that ought to work, would be to print the left-side pages of a 9x12 2-up, then turn the printer around and print the right-side pages. Interesting

Re: [Finale] parenthesis

2004-03-11 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Bob, I don't think there *is* a way, actually. I had the same problem with the Cautionary Accidentals plugin putting parentheses on accidentals even when I told it not to, and I couldn't find any way of getting rid of them other than doing it all by hand. You could try using the Canonic

Re: [Finale] JW Space systems

2004-03-11 Thread Darcy James Argue
I would assume Jari's been really busy. I did email him, encouraging him to update his plugins for FinMac2004 and mentioning that I think lots of us would gladly pay for them if he decides he needs to start charging for the plugin set. Perhaps if he's abandoned them, he would be willing to

Re: [Finale] JW Space systems

2004-03-11 Thread Darcy James Argue
2004, at 07:43 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On Thursday, March 11, 2004, at 04:11 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: In the meanwhile, when Fin2004 for OS 9 is finally released, we ought to be able to open Fin2004 files in Classic and run the existing JW plugins -- right? I doubt it. I have tried to run

Re: [Finale] 12x18 printing on Ricoh AP2610

2004-03-11 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 11 Mar 2004, at 10:14 PM, Fisher, Allen wrote: I don't have my Mac in front of me (I can't remember if this option exists on the mac without looking it up), but can you check Ignore Margins for N-up Printing In the print dialog? Hi Allen, Yes you can. But it doesn't make any difference.

Re: [Finale] JW Space systems

2004-03-11 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 12 Mar 2004, at 02:32 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: I doubt it. For two reasons: I don't think carbonized apps even open in classic, at least some don't We've been over this already. I expect that when Finale 2004 for OS 9 is released, it will be as a separate application from Finale 2004 for

[Finale] Multiple Document Text Block Bug

2004-03-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, This bug has been around since at least Mac Finale 2002, but it seems that if anything, it's even worse in Finale 2004. Periodically -- and unfortunately, I'm not able to reproduce it at will -- changing the content of a page-attached text block in one document will affect *all* open

[Finale]

2004-03-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi gang, Here's a follow-up I sent to MacSupport. I stripped the attachment for list purposes, but email me if you want to see this for yourself. Has no one else encountered this bug in FinMac2004? It's a doozy. --- Earlier today I filed a bug report regarding FinMac 2004's disastrous

Re: [Finale] Mac 2004 speed issues

2004-03-09 Thread Darcy James Argue
Steve, Great tip about iKey! You're right, it's *much* faster than QuicKeys, and only a fraction of the price. I would encourage anyone who's using OS X and hasn't yet reprogrammed all of their shortcuts in QuicKeys (which you will have to do -- QuicKeys X won't import your OS 9 shortcuts)

[Finale] Paper Redux

2004-03-09 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi gang, I just thought I'd follow up the paper thread and let you know what I found. Mohawk makes an acid-free, natural white, smooth finish paper that comes pre-cut in 12.375 x 18.125 sheets. It's called Mohawk Superfine Softwhite Smooth and it comes in a variety of weights -- I got the

Re: [Finale] Paper Redux

2004-03-09 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 09 Mar 2004, at 06:12 PM, Cecil Rigby wrote: Hi Darcy- do you mind telling us what the paper shipping costs were? I can't remember the exact amount, and it hasn't showed up on my credit card statement yet. The paper was something like $80 for 2000 sheets, which I think is probably on the

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