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

2004-03-16 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
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. Aside Brad's comments, there is a subtle cultural

Re: [Finale] Fin04 in MacOS9? Why? (was: Explode!)

2004-01-01 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 5:40 pm + 12/31/03, Robert Patterson wrote: The OS9 Finder compensates in two interdependent ways: one is that when you click on a window, all windows for that app come foreward. One can argue the pros and con of this, but it does make the Expose functionality less necessary, especially

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-12 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
Brad: If 2004 for the Mac still debuts with Coda/MakeMusic's excremental phone home copy-protection scheme, then doing the upgrade is a suicide-watch for our files anyway. I have no desire to experience that. YMMV. Coda/MakeMusic: Please notify me when Coda/MakeMusic produces a version that

Re: [Finale] Finale to mp3 or wav

2003-11-24 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
David -- I'm sorry, but I don't think either the analogy or the analysis holds. I've ripped tens of gigs of my own CDs with iTunes but I've yet to purchase a single track. And, of course, I use it to sync my iPod. That may not be entirely typical, but I don't think it is entirely atypical

Re: [Finale] Finale to mp3 or wav

2003-11-23 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 3:43 am -0600 11/23/03, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: I wrote in part: and for a few tens of dollars, one can purchase a file converter which will convert the WAV to MP3 format, among others; to which Darcy wrote: iTunes does this for free. You can burn the CDs from there as well. but I suspect

Re: [Finale] FAT32 to NTFS

2003-11-07 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 9:20 pm -0500 11/6/03, Raymond Horton wrote: OK, it's sounds like it's failing hard drive, all right, but none of the problems I was having with the old computer were anywhere close to the hard drive. If it _is_ a failing drive, and as a last resort, http://www.drivesavers.com/, though it

[Finale] Copy Protection and Lost Sales

2003-10-10 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
to flame me, but I think that this is an exchange that should be made public. -=-Dennis Reply to email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] dated Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:56:12 -0500: __ To: Finale Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dennis W. Manasco [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] OT: Bass Marimba

2003-08-31 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 5:03 pm -0400 8/30/03, Andrew Stiller wrote: Nick Carter and I have been discussing the possibility of a new edition of my book, which I hope will become possible within a year, and would include this and numerous other recent developments--and second thoughts. As a vote for the

Re: [Finale] OT: MacOS 9 help needed

2003-08-31 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 12:52 pm +0200 8/30/03, Johannes Gebauer wrote: The point is that the problem is in Andrew's OS 9 partition, not the OS X one. Was it actually in a _ separate_partition_? I thought that Andrew was using his iMac fairly generically as an out-of-the-box computer and just booting into OS 9

Re: [Finale] OT: MacOS 9 help needed

2003-08-30 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 4:23 pm +0200 8/29/03, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Before you do this I would definitely run Norton from it's CD and see whether it can solve the problem more easily. If it runs into severe problems it will tell you. Johannes On 29.08.2003 12:01 Uhr, Dennis W. Manasco wrote ... Johannes

Re: [Finale] OT: MacOS 9 help needed

2003-08-30 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 9:59 am -0400 8/29/03, Andrew Stiller wrote: Thanks especially to Dennis Manasco for his technical explanation of my bad-blocks problem. You are welcome. The upshot appears to be that I should do nothing, because a) whatever info is in the bad blocks is certainly not compromising my

Re: [Finale] OT: MacOS 9 help needed

2003-08-29 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 4:11 pm -0400 8/28/03, Andrew Stiller wrote: As long as we're on this general subject, let me pose another such problem, also on the Mac. Norton Utilities keeps telling me that I have a couple of bad blocks on my hard drive that it can't repair because they are in vital areas of, I assume,

[Finale] Copy Protection and Lost Sales

2003-08-15 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
to flame me, but I think that this is an exchange that should be made public. -=-Dennis Reply to email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] dated Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:56:12 -0500: __ To: Finale Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dennis W. Manasco [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 Review

2003-08-10 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
of the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (and [EMAIL PROTECTED]) cancelling my order. Original message to finalesales and macsupport: -- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dennis W. Manasco [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cancellation of Order Number

Re: [Finale] reply

2002-11-28 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 12:59 pm -0500 11/26/02, John Howell wrote: I agree completely. The purpose of a mailing list is conversation among members of the list. That should be implemented as a matter of course. And is on almost all the other lists I'm on. BUT! I'd like to hear from our listmom whether

Re: [Finale] reply

2002-11-26 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 2:53 pm -0500 11/25/02, Darcy James Argue wrote: ...For lists such as these, the *overwhelming majority* of replies are intended for the entire list. Only a very small number of replies are meant to be private, and it seems to me if you want to send a private reply, the burden is on *you*

Re: [Finale] reply

2002-11-25 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 2:38 pm -0500 11/24/02, Darcy James Argue wrote: Is this a new feature or what? Yes. This is an incredibly stupid and undesirable feature of the new mailing list software. The solution is to choose reply all when posting to the list. Or manually pasting in the address for the Finale

Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney (Finale is easy?)

2002-11-15 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 7:34 am -0800 11/14/02, Robert Patterson wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 07:25:08 -0800 (PST), Andrew Stiller wrote: An order of magnitude means a factor of 10. I hate to be technical, but an order of magnitude means a factor of X, where X is any number you choose (including real imaginary

Re: [Finale] PDF manipulation

2002-10-06 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 10:58 pm -0400 10/5/02, Howard Rigby wrote: What I want to know is whether any of you can recommend a particular prepress PDF manipulator that can do the following *without* me having to use the Finale source files: allow a cover and endpage not already in the Handlo PDF; the ability to

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-19 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 7:19 pm -0400 9/18/02, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: I'm gonna defend David on this one, because although I've used Finale for nearly 11 years, I despise using lyrics and find the whole system distasteful and regressive. Thank you Dennis for standing up to say this. I seldom use lyrics with

[Finale] OT: eBay buys PayPal

2002-07-10 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
All -- News for those of us who despise PayPal's Reach Out and Touch Someone's Bank Account attitude, but find eBay's Billpoint system relatively benign; a story on Lycos: http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=27736031 Relevant quote: eBay's current payment service, eBay

RE: [Finale] Patterson website

2002-06-30 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 8:15 AM -0700 6/27/02, Robert Patterson wrote: It [Billpoint] provides secure web payment w/o looking at bank accounts or requiring sign up. It is unlike (at least) Kagi, in that there is no storefront. You request an invoice from the seller, the seller sends it, you pay it. As with Paypal,

RE: [Finale] Patterson website

2002-06-28 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 12:49 PM +0200 6/27/02, Tobias Giesen wrote: Dennis: The banking lobby has been successful in stopping all laws designed to protect customers from fraudulent electronic withdrawals from their checking accounts. In Germany, you simply go to the bank and cancel the unauthorized

RE: [Finale] Patterson website

2002-06-27 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
Tobias -- At 11:57 AM +0200 6/26/02, Tobias Giesen wrote: I, at least, am willing to pay the extra cost that Kagi charges for their service just to have the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they take transaction security seriously. a) The customer is never charged such fees,

RE: [Finale] Patterson website

2002-06-27 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
Dennis -- At 6:03 AM -0400 6/26/02, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Eh? I've used them all, but try to avoid Kagi, which is a private company. Most of the places (though not most of the total dollar volume) at which I use my card in the corporeal world are private companies. I don't see how

Re: [Finale] 127 sharps or flats?

2002-06-24 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 7:40 AM -0400 6/23/02, David H. Bailey wrote: 127 is actually NOT one less than a power of two, since computers use 0 as a real number, so 0-127 represent 128 values, which is a common number to run into in programming, 127 is 2 to the 7th - 1, also known as 0111 (in binary). For

Re: [Finale] Saving files *again*

2002-05-20 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 5:15 pm -0400 5/19/02, Crystal Premo wrote: Graphic Converter has options in the save box for this. Graphic Converter? Go to http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=1870db=mac GraphicConverter is the premier application for translating bit-mapped files from one format to another.

Re: [Finale] Saving files *again*

2002-05-19 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 9:28 pm -0400 5/18/02, Crystal Premo wrote: I want to create music examples in Finale on the MAC, then use them in a desktop publisher on a Windows machine. I tried saving them as .tifs and .eps's, but they are not recognized on the Windows machine. Please help me. Again. Crystal --

Re: [Finale] Finale's Defaults

2002-05-12 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 12:05 pm +0200 5/10/02, Jari Williamsson wrote: So do you suggest that we should move from the flexible any-page-can-have-any-size to an only-one-page-size-per-document approach? Of course not. It's just the wisdom of requiring the user, especially the new user, to select the orientation

Re: [Finale] MIDI et al

2002-05-03 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 1:12 pm -0400 5/2/02, David W. Fenton wrote: The way around that is to tell them you are using the router for the minimal firewall protection that it's NAT features give you. {...} This is a valid configuration, one computer connected to a router, A very valid configuration. I would never

Re: [Finale] Re: new computer...

2002-04-26 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 1:37 pm -0400 4/25/02, David W. Fenton wrote: What makes you think the Mac scenario doesn't involve a boot manager? There are plenty of boot managers for Windows that will do what you want. David -- I didn't and don't want to fan a platform war -- I think they usually have as much meaning

Re: [Finale] Re [finale]: new computer...

2002-04-23 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 11:43 am +1000 4/23/02, Rocky Road wrote: In HTML would that be rant and then /rant? :) Yeah... My HTML chews, but I should have caught the first slash. The -off part just makes sense for most people. I run a couple of computers and when I upgrade software with a free upgrade off the