Re: [Finale] The S Word [was: Orchestra MIDI]

2002-07-12 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 12:35 AM 7/12/02 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote: Is there a way I can remove the My Computer and Neighborhood Network icons from the Desktop. I figured out how to get rid of My Documents, even though I could trash it directly, but the same trick isn't working for these other two. Search for a

Re: [Finale] orchestral efficiency

2002-07-12 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 11:23 PM 7/11/02 -0700, Alain Mayrand wrote: has an unusual format since it has four horn lines, 3 trumpet and trombone lines and, well, you get the picture. Yes. This is one of the great failures of all notation programs ... someone correct me if I'm wrong and this has changed, but I do not

Re: [Finale] Re: Finale] Misconceptions about File Names in URIs [ot]

2002-07-12 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 05:36 PM 7/12/02 +0200, Peter Castine wrote: Windoze file names never contain spaces? Windoze Web Weenies never write broken URIs? I don't know, because the only broken URLs I've encountered have been Mac-originated. Of course that's not even close to definitive. But it might be for a few

Re: [Finale] orchestral efficiency

2002-07-12 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 10:30 AM 7/12/02 -0400, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: Oo, TG Tools will solve all your problems. I read the documentation for this feature, and it still doesn't actually solve the issue of tagging a part as a part -- which is, I suppose, an ambiguity deep inside Finale that the plugin can't

Re: [Finale] RE: Orchestral efficiency

2002-07-12 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 09:38 AM 7/12/02 -0700, Linda Worsley wrote: Sure, it would be great if the machines could read our minds or automatically, somehow, understand that the flutes 1 and 2 part should be made into two individual pages, with the correct instrument label, all the a2s and solos etc. intact,

RE: [Finale] RE: Orchestral efficiency

2002-07-12 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 12:13 PM 7/12/02 -0700, Lee Actor wrote: The way I handle this is to make a group out of all staves (divisi, soli, etc.) pertaining to a single part, while instrument changes and the like are handled by staff styles. I think you may already have the tools to accomplish what you want. Yes,

Re: [Finale] The S Word [was: Orchestra MIDI]

2002-07-12 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:38 PM 7/12/02 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote: My current problem is that something is turning the auto-arrange back on. I think maybe it's related to a system freeze up I'm getting from one of my other applications. It seems like it's only after I reboot that the icons have re-aligned

Re: [Finale] The S Word [was: Orchestra MIDI]

2002-07-11 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 12:16 AM 7/11/02 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote: What I really hate, however, is that certain punctuation characters which were available to me in Mac filenames are off limits in Windows filenames! I think this is in keeping with the long tradition of reserved characters. That's why some Mac

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI

2002-07-11 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 11:22 AM 7/11/02 -0400, Andrew Stiller wrote: OK, I've entered flutes, obs, clars. The General Midi clarinet is TOO LOUD, so, per advice, I go to the MIDI tool, select the staff, choose Continuous Data from the Midi menu and enter controller 7: volume, click OK, choose Percent Alter from

Re: [Finale] Misconceptions about File Names in URIs [ot; Was: The S Word]

2002-07-11 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 11:17 PM 7/11/02 +0200, Peter Castine wrote: Or what are you trying to say? That Mac URLs are often presented with reserved characters -- spaces (for example) instead of %20. That could be the page creator's fault, but there you have it. You shouldn't splutter so much, Peter. You'll have me

Re: [Finale] PDF from Mac OSX

2002-07-11 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:17 PM 7/11/02 -0700, Philip Aker wrote: I hope Coda has finally decided to stop discriminating against it's long time Macintosh user base in this regard. We Windows users had to slog through *four* versions of Finale to get one that didn't act like a Mac-port stepchild. Even today,

Re: [Finale] The S Word [was: Orchestra MIDI]

2002-07-10 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 09:41 AM 7/10/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: Very well, but it nonetheless requires multiple instances of a single expression. The Sibelius method of understanding what arco means after a pizzicato and automatically switching to the appropriate patch seems so obviously superior that I

Re: [Finale] The S word again

2002-07-10 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
generous? It's your money! Yi yi yi! Maybe you and many other software customers are just used to being treated that way, and have forgotten what it's like not to be a victim. From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have always been philosophically opposed to protection because it treats me

Re: [Finale] The S Word [was: Orchestra MIDI]

2002-07-10 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
All, Thanks to everyone for a *very* illuminating discussion on how Midi is used within scoring. I learned a great deal about different styles. Being an old event list guy, I find everything else ambiguous or hard to remember. But it's refreshing to learn how many different techniques have

Re: [Finale] The S word again

2002-07-09 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:44 PM 7/9/02 -0400, David H. Bailey wrote: Anybody else want to deal with their piracy-prevention scheme? Not me! No matter what the price! Absolutely never. Dennis ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] The S word again

2002-07-09 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 06:30 AM 7/10/02 +0900, Richard Walker wrote: What's the big deal? You go to their web page, input your information and get the magic number that opens up the program. It's not that onerous, and it's not nearly as ugly, say, as the dongle that Logic makes you attach before it will work. In

Re: [Finale] The S word again

2002-07-09 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 08:07 AM 7/10/02 +0900, you wrote: My impression is that they are very easy to work with. And when they are out of business? They will be, of course. Then where will your years of work be? And, as I said, what about your archivists, correspondents, or clients? You're a composer; I'm a

Re: [Finale] The S Word [was: Orchestra MIDI]

2002-07-09 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 08:12 PM 7/9/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: In any event, quadrupling the number of metatool keys isn't exactly user- friendly, since how in the world could one keep track of so many different shortcuts? My own solution is to use only the tools I need for a given score. The ones that are

Re: [Finale] Tie end in second ending

2002-07-05 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 09:01 PM 7/5/02 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Can someone remind me how to add a tie end to the first note of a second ending (ie the it is only attached to the second ending note, not to the last note of the first ending). I use the add slur and drag it backwards kluge. Maybe there's a

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 10:42 PM 7/5/02 +0200, Patrick Hubers wrote: If you're printing directly from Finale only, there's no reason to prefer a PS printer, no. However, if you need to print proofs of material that will eventually be rendered by a high resolution typesetter, like a DTP document with embedded

Re: [Finale] Booklet Page Procession

2002-07-05 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 07:43 PM 7/5/02 -0500, Robert Patterson wrote: Hmmm. According to my math, 72 pages = 18 sheets (each sheet is two pages front back), which results in creep of 0.04 per sheet. But perhaps I have misunderstood what you meant. 72 pages to the *center* of the publication when it's open, without

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 12:10 PM 7/4/02 -0400, you wrote: The platform is PC for Finale and Word, where the documents to go to the PROFESSIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGNER are produced. I don't used EPS anymore, because I prefer to use PDF, and most print houses are fine with that these days. But I have produced EPS when

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 12:10 PM 7/4/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: the PostScript that Finale produces being non-portable unless you do special tweaks. I assumed that the problems with the PS export would also be present in the EPS production (perhaps wrongly). In re-reading, I see you are using the term

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:19 PM 7/4/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: Where does the OwnPS=0 option go? Finale.ini? What section should I put it in? Settings. In any event, the user in question has a post-2000 version of Finale (I'm not sure which), so WinFin97 is really only my issue on my personal setup, not

Re: [Finale] Re: 3 against 4 TAN

2002-07-03 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 10:34 AM 7/3/02 -0400, Andrew Stiller wrote: Maybe it's different on the East Coast. Prolly. Mathmattix. Like Phadelphia. I said em both. As one who lives there, I can assure you it's Fluffya. Ah, you see, I lived in Trenton (Tren) from 1969-78 (across the street from Sylvester Stallone's

Re: [Finale] Re: 3 against 4 TAN

2002-07-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:38 PM 7/2/02 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote: Maybe it's different on the East Coast. Prolly. Mathmattix. Like Phadelphia. I said em both. Dennis ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] 3 against 4 TAN

2002-06-30 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 10:34 PM 6/30/02 -0400, you wrote: Tap one hand on syllables 1, 2, 4, and 6; tap the other hand on syllables 1, 5, and 6. Instant 3 against 4. Pass the goddamn butter is irregular the way I say it (quarter-eighth triplet, two quarters, two eighths) unless you add a rest at the end and

RE: [Finale] Patterson website

2002-06-26 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 03:08 AM 6/26/02 -0500, Dennis W. Manasco wrote: Please offer an alternative payment plan through a more trustworthy system than PayPal (like Kagi or Digital River). PayPal gives me the heebie jeebies and I want nothing to do with anything associated with eBay. Eh? I've used them all, but

Re: [Finale] OT LONG: help with adult student

2002-06-24 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 08:00 AM 6/22/02 -0700, Linda Worsley wrote: So here's my question: (at last) Faced with this daunting task, what would you do? I've been following this for a few days, because I had a student exactly like this -- very successful in another field (law), motivated, self-starter, etc -- with

Re: [Finale] Macro program for Finale (with Windows 95).

2002-06-22 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 12:14 AM 6/23/02 +1000, Michael Edwards wrote: Well, it's Windows 95, actually. My laptop is about 4 years old (I.B.M. ThinkPad 770 ED), so it would seem from something David Fenton said that there was little point in upgrading Windows while still using an older computer - but I could do

Re: [Finale] File formats - security anyone - copying or not

2002-06-18 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 07:38 AM 6/18/02 -0400, David H. Bailey wrote: I don't know how copyright laws work in your country, but you can expressly place the music in the public domain in the United States by placing a statement to that effect in place of the normal copyright notice. Can you cite the law on this?

Re: [Finale] File formats - security anyone - copying or not

2002-06-18 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 02:55 PM 6/18/02 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 18.06.2002 12:31 Uhr, Paul Delcour wrote No one should be obliged to give their music away for free. That is indeed my choice. I do not expect anyone to be prepared to pay for it. But current laws state that copyright remains after death

Re: [Finale] Recording/web sites(long). was pdf etc.

2002-06-18 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:41 PM 6/18/02 -0400, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: I may be wrong, but I think work for hire as applied to composition and performances is unique to the USA. It certainly doesn't exist in that form in Canada. One actually has to specifically give up one's rights to the employer in written

Re: [Finale] It's here!

2002-06-07 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 10:17 PM 6/7/02 -0400, you wrote: I've never received this sort of e-mail from Finale, and I've been upgrading since 3.7 I have. I know since I packrat everything. :) For example, here's my auto-email from Finale 2K2: Your Order has been processed and shipped via FDX Order Date: 10/25/2001

Re: [Finale] Back to basics.

2002-06-05 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 03:08 AM 6/5/02 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote: Unfortunately, when I send it to Coda, they say they can't reproduce it on any of their systems and it must have something to do with my computer being so old. Ah. My system is an optimized DAW with 1.4GHz Athon and 512MB memory running Win98SE, and

Re: [Finale] Back to basics.

2002-06-04 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 10:31 PM 6/3/02 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote: Speaking of which, how about that business whereby when you move too far into the ledger lines the staff gets displaced vertically and *stays that way*? As far as I can tell, *everyone* hates that. Is that deliberate or related to the bug where the

Re: [Finale] Beaming across barlines problem

2002-06-03 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 10:36 PM 6/2/02 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote: The method that I used (and described in the earlier post) works across a system break, and makes no difference to the playback. Didn't you say you used a portion of a tuplet and hid the rest? Wouldn't that leave you with a sonic gap, especially if

Re: [Finale] Back to basics.

2002-06-03 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 10:36 PM 6/2/02 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote: A new feature that I *don't* like is that typing a number when the cursor is on a note that is already of that value will add a note to the chord. Yes, this is absolutely maddening. When creating tuplets, I might skip the CTRL feature because I'm

Re: [Finale] Beam Over Barline

2002-06-03 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 08:20 PM 6/3/02 -0500, Robert Patterson wrote: Okay you beamers, the beta version of Beam Over Barline is at my website. It currently has no settings, so what you see is what you get. You don't know, you just don't know. You can't know. Even the system breaks work. One little thing to

Re: [Finale] Beaming across barlines problem

2002-06-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:36 PM 6/2/02 -0700, you wrote: One of these days Coda will give us simpler ways of accomplishing this - or maybe one of our plug-in artists will provide one that will accomplish it for us. Please, a plug-in of some kind. I have been asking for this since Finale 2.2, and that's just about

Re: [Finale] Beaming across barlines problem

2002-06-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 02:14 PM 6/2/02 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote: what I did was turn the quarter note before and the one after into and eighth as a tuplet (ie, one 8th in the time of two 8ths). That gives me a beam to work with, then I used the beam extension tool to move the beams over. Note that with this method

[Finale] F2K3: beaming across barlines?

2002-05-31 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Hi all, I looked at the features for beaming across barlines. Is it still a workaround? Anybody know? Dennis ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] TAN - Help with class curricula

2002-05-23 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:44 PM 5/23/02 -0400, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: Mr. Orwell, there's a package from Mr. Burns and Mr. Marsalis for you at the front desk. George Orwell to the front counter, please. Indeed. I thought I was the only one who felt the Burns series had a gaping hole in its contemporary

Re: [Finale] Finale Porn (fwd)

2002-05-20 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:42 PM 5/20/02 -0400, warren heck wrote: For dealing with spam I have set up an account with spamcop.net.. Please do not use spamcop. They are a vigilante group with no policing over them. I almost had my account canceled because spamcop does not pursue the validity of claims, and it was a

Re: [Finale] Finale Porn

2002-05-19 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 07:19 PM 5/19/02 -0500, Doug Auwarter wrote: Yep, I got it too. And this was the first time anyone had invaded any of my list/serves. I have no idea how to prevent it, though. Anyone? They've been coming through on all my active lists (AlgoComp, CECDiscuss, Coco, etc.). Solutions: 1. Close

Re: [Finale] TAN: Mac OS question

2002-05-18 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 12:39 AM 5/19/02 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Virtual Memory means that some of what the computer keeps in it's RAM is temporarily stored on your hard disk to make room for more applications. This way the memory that your computer can address can be extended. OS 9 is not very good in doing

Re: [Finale] filter out those hude digests!

2002-04-17 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 08:36 PM 4/17/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: I hate to keep harping on my email reader My only reason for suggesting the use of an interface like mail2web.com is that it obviates the need to change email clients for a temporary situation like this one. I have mail in Eudora mailboxes since

Re: [Finale] Message which didn't make it to the list

2002-04-16 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 02:18 PM 4/16/02 -0500, John Howell wrote: what we need and what almost everyone in music needs is a program that produces professional looking copy right out of the box in an intuitive manner that anyone can quickly learn. No tweaking. No default file fiddling around. [...] John, If

Re: [Finale] ot, was Re: Thoughts on Mac-Sibelius 2.0

2002-04-16 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 12:08 PM 4/16/02 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote: The Eudora Light version I'm using is from 1995, so I guess that's what you would call very old. Yup. I still have it on my 1997-vintage laptop. But no need to upgrade! In 1.5.4, Shift+Reply toggles to Reply and Reply to All. :) Hopefully, the new

Re: [Finale] Word and Finale? Possible?

2002-04-16 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 11:17 AM 4/16/02 -0700, Harold Owen wrote: The way I have done it: In Finale choose the Graphics Tool, in Page View, double-click and drag a box around the music you want to import into Word. Choose Export Selection from the menu. In the dialog box that appears, choose EPS from the

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