Re: [Finale] time signature change

2004-04-02 Thread Richard Huggins
It will not become 48 bars. The time signature will change, but everything else will remain the same. --Richard From: Bob Florence [EMAIL PROTECTED] How can I take a section of music (24 bars) in 4/4 and change it to cut time (2/2). It will become 48 bars. Is there a Finale way or do I have

Re: [Finale] Grace Notes

2004-03-26 Thread Richard Huggins
Click the Lyric Tool go to Lyrics (menu) Lyric Options. In the field next to Space Between Hyphens enter a large number (mine is 1728, using EVPU as the unit of measurement). This will stop Finale from entering so many hyphens, usually in fact only entering one. --Richard Huggins From: George

Re: [Finale] Grace Notes

2004-03-25 Thread Richard Huggins
Did you use the Special Tools Note Position Tool? Click it, then click on the measure and all notes, incl. grace, should show a handle. Click a specific handle or drag-enclose a group of handles and use your arrow keys as desired. If you did this and the notes won't move, that's a curiosity. One

Re: [Finale] Word Extensions_____what gives?

2004-03-24 Thread Richard Huggins
From: Randolph Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shouldn't word extensions only apply to moving notes and not to tied ones? No, word extensions should apply to words sitting on tied notes. The extension should go to the last tied note. It seems as if the word extension plugins (both Finale's and

Re: [Finale] Word Extensions_____what gives?

2004-03-24 Thread Richard Huggins
From: Randolph Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] And the plug-ins DO give inconsistent results. This particular plug-in has always been a little inconsistent. You just have to live with it and correct the misses manually. --Richard ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] Graphics tablets

2004-03-18 Thread Richard Huggins
From: Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hear trackballs are also good, but I could never get the hang of them. - Darcy I remember what the salesperson said when I bought my first trackball. She said, You'll hate it for three days, then you'll never want to use anything else. She was

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

2004-03-16 Thread Richard Huggins
Title: Re: [Finale] Feature request: stack windows instead of tiling Mac users already know this, but for clarification I would point out that in pre-OSX, using Option-Click on the zoom button (otherwise called maxmimizing) does, in fact, cause the window to open to the full height and width of

Re: [Finale] Cross Staff Accidental Question

2004-03-16 Thread Richard Huggins
You possibly already know that to *Finale* all those notes are in the same stave. That's why it is not repeating the accidental. I think he'll have to use the asterisk key on each occurance to get the accidental to appear. I can't find any way to alter Finale's behaviour as regards repeating

Re: [Finale] Cross staff notes and artics

2004-03-16 Thread Richard Huggins
I can't speak to version 4 stuff, but it works pretty well for me in 2k2. When you say even when I drag them do you mean the articulations or the notes? Are you entering the articulations when the notes are in their original staff (before using cross staff)? In case it helps if working on the

Re: [Finale] TAN: Is mp a redundant dynamic?

2004-03-13 Thread Richard Huggins
I chime in with the others. This is the first I've heard of such a notion; it sounds like watercooler stuff. I recall an excellent choral conductor who periodically would ask the group to sing for him their different dynamics, i.e., Let me hear your mfLet me hear your p etc. The point was

Re: [Finale] MORE frustration with chord font sizes (plus rant)

2004-03-05 Thread Richard Huggins
If the various suggestions have failed, try the Swap One Font for Another feature. Go to Options Data Check Swap One Font for Another. Under Search for This Font enter the current font (and size if you know it, but if that font is not being used for anything else you won't need to enter a size)

[Finale] PDFs from multiple files

2004-03-04 Thread Richard Huggins
I am wondering if either the actual Adobe Acrobat application or any other app will let you select multiple files and then create one PDF of them? If so, would it let you indicate which file comes first, which comes 2nd, etc.? Would it start a new page with each file? I do realize I can combine

Re: [Finale] Frustration with chord font sizes

2004-03-01 Thread Richard Huggins
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] So how do I make the ENTIRE chord big enough to read? I want the chords to be uniformly large enough throughout the whole score, and keep them from overlapping each other also. You can make them any size or font you want. To change the chord symbol font, and or size,

Re: [Finale] It's official...

2004-03-01 Thread Richard Huggins
The heartiest of congratulations to you, Dennis!! When the applause is deafening, remember us little people on the ole Finale list(:) Richard Huggins From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:39:26 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Finale] It's official

[Finale] Customizable zooms

2004-02-18 Thread Richard Huggins
Would anyone else besides me like to have the ability to customize the zoom percentages, so that using the zoom tool took the zoom to a user-determined pecentage? For example, 200% on the first click might work for my 21 monitor, but doesn't for my laptop. I'd like to be able to set the

Re: [Finale] Global setting for a collection

2004-02-05 Thread Richard Huggins
In general, it would be wonderful to have more global-setting capabilities with Finale. Music editors everywhere would love it. I'm glad to hear about the Patterson plug-in that mght help...with it could I, for example, change the copyright footer on multiple files? Richard From: musighi [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] Note Spacing Quits Working

2004-02-02 Thread Richard Huggins
I have had situations where I did not have all the measures (vertically) selected, e.g. the treble clef but not the bass clef. In such a case, spacing routines don't seem to work completely, since the other measures aren't provided to Finale to work with. This has been the only incomplete

Re: [Finale] White out problem

2004-01-28 Thread Richard Huggins
I was going to suggest Dennis's solution (shape expression, line thickness =0, fill with white), but without trying also to create a slur to go with it. You can create a shape of any size and shape, probably needing various ones, and use them to white out various areas as needed. If the document

[Finale] Accidentals Q

2004-01-28 Thread Richard Huggins
I'm doing a piano score. I have a situation where the displayed notation on beat 4 is identical to beat 1 in the same measure, notes which have accidentals. Due to the use of 8va in the earlier case but not in the latter, the second occurance would be played at a different point on the keys.

Re: [Finale] Creating mid-measure double bar line

2004-01-21 Thread Richard Huggins
that if a spacing problem were encountered it would indeed be remedied, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. If I choose another and it works by all relevant criteria, what is the problem? Richard --- Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21.01.2004 1:37 Uhr, Richard Huggins wrote Below would be my choice as well

Re: [Finale] Creating mid-measure double bar line

2004-01-21 Thread Richard Huggins
Sorry for my over-reaction. That's what happens when you reply after short and intermittent sleep. Suffice it to say that it should be considered a given that a spacing issue will be addressed by a competent engraver, it's only a matter of which approach is used. Hopefully we can agree that as

Re: [Finale] Creating mid-measure double bar line

2004-01-20 Thread Richard Huggins
Below would be my choice as well. As for the objection that it can't be used if correct spacing were an issue, I ask why. Spacing is adjustable to make room for this, using the beat chart for one thing. Not even the shape designer would be absolutely needed. Select the line tool from the smart

Re: [Finale] Placing of rit. and accel. in parts

2004-01-16 Thread Richard Huggins
From: Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since the A Tempo (indication) cancels the Accel. (modification), it's only logical to make them the same style and place them in the same manner. The score would be incredibly difficult to read otherwise. I agree. I engrave quite a bit of keyboard

Re: [Finale] 'Home' key not behaving

2004-01-13 Thread Richard Huggins
FWIW, I tested this with FinMac 2k2 and had no problem with Home key working as expected when a speedy frame was active. I simple-entered notes in measure 7, activated the Speedy frame in that measure, hit Home, and Finale jumped to measure 1 (without a frame). I don't use the Auto Launch Speedy

Re: [Finale] Reducing the size of time signatures, clefs, accidentals?

2004-01-12 Thread Richard Huggins
George, go Options Select Default Fonts Notation and after that item-by-item select Clef, Time Signature and whatever else you want smaller. For each one, click the Set Font button and change the size for the selected element from its default of 24 pt. to whatever you wish, i.e. 20 pt, 18 pt.

Re: [Finale] Reducing the size of time signatures, clefs, accidentals?

2004-01-12 Thread Richard Huggins
Sorry...I misunderstood your question. You could do it graphically, using the Expression tool to create a shape expression for a larger sharp with parentheses (and same for flat), then program a metatool for each of the two. That would make for comparatively fast entry. They each would have to be

Re: [Finale] Staff lines in PDFs

2004-01-09 Thread Richard Huggins
I'm not so sure I agree with the statement very poor impression, except that you could be speaking of your own preferences. If the files *print* fine, why would a publisher balk over their on-screen appearance, being as how their ultimate desination is not the screen? You never said that they

Re: [Finale] Staff lines in PDFs

2004-01-09 Thread Richard Huggins
. - Original Message - From: Richard Huggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not so sure I agree with the statement very poor impression, except that you could be speaking of your own preferences. If the files *print* fine, why would a publisher balk over their on-screen appearance, being

Re: [Finale] Explode!

2003-12-31 Thread Richard Huggins
David, what would you say about Photoshop, which has gobs of plugins from all kind of sources? That it was piss-poor programming on Adobe's part? Are you kidding me? Could it possibly be said that to provide for plug-ins is an innovative and provisionary thing, even enabling entreprenurialism on

Re: [Finale] Expose (was Aaargh... More delays)

2003-12-19 Thread Richard Huggins
It's not Expose-like as such, but in the same vein as multiple screens, for Mac users there's a software program for Macs called CodeTek VirtualDesktop Pro that apparently gives you multiple (virtual) desktops. Expose is supported by this software, too. Here's a description from their website:

Re: [Finale] Merged syllable question

2003-12-18 Thread Richard Huggins
I think at some point we risk straying into regional dialect, don't we? I can guarantee you that there are southerners who are world champions at reducing multi-syllabic words to just one or two! --Richard From: Crystal Premo [EMAIL PROTECTED] A quick survey of the 14 people here in this

Re: [Finale] Strange grace note spacing

2003-12-17 Thread Richard Huggins
Interesting. Using the grace note from the Simple Entry pallette I had the same result, whether following the time signature/key sig. (as in your gif) or not. I don't know if there's any setting that can be changed, but as a workaround I found that if I entered those same notes as regular 16th

Re: [Finale] Merged syllable question

2003-12-17 Thread Richard Huggins
In my book it's still customary and preferable. By the way, I'd write your example as op-'ning. A similar example, ev-'ning. While o-pen-ing would be correct if the e were used (three syllables), when the e is not spoken, the word changes its complexion, so to speak. You treat it as if it were

Re: [Finale] Expand bug? (FinWin2004a)

2003-12-14 Thread Richard Huggins
, it disappears until you remove optimization for that system. --Richard Huggins From: James Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Piano piece, all systems had been previously optimzied: Mass select all of top staff (page or scroll view), '2' meta-key to expand. (Settings for expand: to 2 staves, 1 note each staff

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-12 Thread Richard Huggins
I acknowledge the frustration some of you feel, and some of the real-world issues. But I'd just say to you MM employee/lurkers on the list, I appreciate that you're trying to do this right, and that you're doing it for a very small market share (us Mac users). Not that we're unimportant, of

Re: [Finale] Importing from Rhapsody anomaly

2003-12-12 Thread Richard Huggins
For the stem-direction problem, you'll want to learn about setting Layer options, which is the first thing I'd suspect if I grasp your problem correctly. It seems that the imported file formed two layers. Options Document Layer Options is where you go. You can click on the question mark for

Re: [Finale] Giving away Finale files

2003-12-09 Thread Richard Huggins
You can do what you said or you can create a special template for that publisher that doesn't reflect every nook and cranny of your own. My personal and likely very unpopular opinion is that the notion of not sharing Finale files for the reasons usually stated is overblown. Having been an editor

Re: [Finale] Giving away Finale files

2003-12-09 Thread Richard Huggins
Again I have to put on my editor's hat and say that I fully understand the publisher's position on this. He wants to know he can get his hands on the original notation file if they decide to alter the original version, like with a simplification, or perhaps to change title fonts and sizes to match

Re: [Finale] Grace notes fingerings

2003-12-06 Thread Richard Huggins
Experimenting with fonts and font sizes might be useful, if you haven't and if it's your decision. Times 12, for example, is just slightly narrower than Times New Roman 12. Helvetica 10 does away with serifs, yet is nicely readable (at 9 too) probably beyond that if percentage-reduced. Of course

Re: [Finale] Staff Reduction in only One Staff

2003-11-26 Thread Richard Huggins
This may not be what you mean, but you can click on any measure with the Mass Mover tool, then choose Change Note Size. Select the percentage you want and everything in the measure is changed to that size. The lines and spaces don't get reduced because they have to line up with the measures on

Re: [Finale] tuplets

2003-11-23 Thread Richard Huggins
I didn't write the original question but I was interested in seeing if what you said would indeed work on a measure of existing 16th notes (turning them into tuplets). I repeated your steps and for me it did not work the way you said. After setting Caps Lock and doing Option-3, I hit the 3 key on

Re: [Finale] OT: P in a circle

2003-11-18 Thread Richard Huggins
Thanks much for this referral to Oasis Font (http://www.oasisCD.com/music/FF_templates.html#1A). It should work great. For others who may be curious, this font is offered free in both PC and Mac versions. It includes various forms of c in a circle, p in a circle (serif, sans serif, various

Re: [Finale] piano fingerings

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Huggins
Center them one directly on top of the other above whichever note is lined up with the beat, with the top number applying to the top note. Anything else would be confusing and non-standard. Richard H. From: d. collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:03:11 +0100 To: [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] Removing manual note position adjustments

2003-11-14 Thread Richard Huggins
Click the Note Position tool in the Special Tools pallette, click the measure where notes may have been moved, drag enclose all the handles, hit the Delete key. Don't worry, they won't delete! They will snap back to their default positions. Then reapply the spacing routines. --Richard From:

Re: [Finale] OT: P in a circle

2003-11-13 Thread Richard Huggins
Thanks to all for the tips and suggestions. As for WebDings, I have Mac version 1.00 and it does not include P in a circle. According to Hans, version 1.01 does, so perhaps they had an Oops moment after releasing 1.00. Johannes pointed to where I can buy an entire font of P's in a circle for $5,

Re: [Finale] OT: P in a circle

2003-11-13 Thread Richard Huggins
From: David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think that is necessary anymore -- the standard copyright notice is all that is required these days, I believe. I checked this out and it apparently still is required. For anyone interested in reading exactly what it says about the three

[Finale] OT: P in a circle

2003-11-12 Thread Richard Huggins
-supplied fonts have it (but perhaps I'm wrong). I also checked MetTimes and it wasn't there. Can anyone steer me to a font that contains this, or otherwise suggest how I might solve this need? Just curious: do any Windows fonts have it? Richard Huggins

Re: [Finale] new staves not showing up

2003-11-11 Thread Richard Huggins
Go to Scroll View and under the Edit menu look at Special Part Extraction. If it's checked, uncheck it. Update Layout and return to Page View. I suspect the new staves will appear. --Richard From: Tom Godfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:47:19 -0500 To: Finale List [EMAIL

[Finale] FW: 2004 slowness problem

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Huggins
This message below was posted in a church music forum. I seem to recall this was addressed on this list, but the SHSU HTML archives are broken again (at least Sept and Oct), and I can't find anything on it in the Finale online forum. If there's an answer for this guy, I'd appreciate hearing it so

[Finale] ResEdit (Mac)

2003-10-29 Thread Richard Huggins
I've used ResEdit a little to assign a key combo to an oft-used menu command in a few apps I like to use. I'm wondering if any of you Mac'ers ever successfully used it for the same purpose in Finale? I do know that QuicKeys and programmable mice can do this sort of thing, but I specifically am

Re: [Finale] FYI Finale or Mosaic to Sibelius competitive upgrade

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Huggins
How would you provide pages of a program CD? --RH From: John Hinchey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proof of ownership must be provided by mailing the first second pages of the table of contents in the user manual or original program CD. ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] FYI Finale or Mosaic to Sibelius competitive upgrade

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Huggins
of the table of contents in the user manual) or (original program CD.) Richard Huggins wrote: How would you provide pages of a program CD? --RH ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] FYI Finale or Mosaic to Sibelius competitive upgrade

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Huggins
It just does not seem to fit the personality of the members of this list to willingly give up an original program CD. Count me as surprised. (And once copy protection comes into play I don't think burning a CD solves anything, does it?) However, the sending in of an earlier program CD (e.g.,

Re: [Finale] more french to english

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Huggins
So let me get this straight, you hit the bass drum with a loaf of French bread?? (:) --Richard P.S. Leads to possibilities where controlled consumption of the device can be used to fine-tune the tonal response. From: d. collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] (*baguette* in french).

Re: [Finale] FYI Finale or Mosaic to Sibelius competitive upgrade

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Huggins
I know there are a few other notation programs out there, but If there were no Finale, would there be a serious competitor to Sibelius (that INCLUDED the Macintosh platform)? What would keep Sibelius honest and interested in upgrading/improving their features? --Richard

Re: [Finale] FYI Finale or Mosaic to Sibelius competitive upgrade

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Huggins
not sure it has playback at all. There is no mention on their website of playback that I could see. The price is $595 full price, with $295 academic price. The output is beautiful. http://www.graphire.com to find out more. Richard Huggins wrote: I know there are a few other notation programs

Re: [Finale] Herbie Hancock interview

2003-10-18 Thread Richard Huggins
Luckily for this list, I can translate Herbie's statement. What he said was: ...Sibelius does for me the things I need done. You know, half notes, quarter notes, even eighth notes-- complex stuff like that. So I switched! --Richard From: Tim Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003

Re: [Finale] RE: Please have a look.

2003-10-18 Thread Richard Huggins
From: Keef [EMAIL PROTECTED] One person gave me three things upon seeing a different score that vastly improved it without resorting to *any* nitpicking. Maybe you never read in the Bible this passage from 1st Hesitations: 6:3: Blessed are the nitpicky, for they shall inherit the engraving

Re: [Finale] [Fwd: Re: Finale 2004 Mac delay]

2003-10-16 Thread Richard Huggins
committed to the Mac market and they're giving you $20 as a good-faith gesture. You could have none of those things, but why? --Richard Huggins ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2004 delayed

2003-10-15 Thread Richard Huggins
When and how was this announced? The only thing on the Finalemusic.com website is a simple blurb under the Order Now button that now gives a will ship no earlier than 12/15/03 statement. Was there a more fully-developed announcement made? Richard

Re: [Finale] TAN (?) Outlook Express / list help

2003-10-14 Thread Richard Huggins
I ditto the reply below. I do this in my Outlook Express and it works perfectly. Include the [ and ] brackets unless you want any occurance of the word finale in the Subject to be routed to the Finale folder, which you may. --Richard From: Daniel Dorff [EMAIL PROTECTED] In Tools | Message

Re: [Finale] Basic Finale Questions 2

2003-10-13 Thread Richard Huggins
From: Philip Aker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thing is (on Mac anyway) the manuals, both PDF and QuickHelp types are rendered in separate applications so an interruption is guaranteed. It would be much cleaner if they could be rendered directly to a Finale window. With F2K3 or lower the system

[Finale] FileOpen software

2003-10-13 Thread Richard Huggins
I stumbled across this ... maybe you serious users of Acrobat already know about it ... but it's a plug-in (I think) that offers quite a bit of enhanced security, distribution control, printing, all sorts of things for PDF documents. Just thought I'd mention it. http://www.fileopen.com/

Re: [Finale] Transpose half a chord

2003-10-12 Thread Richard Huggins
several pitches at once, but just using one section I entered (Change) G# and (To) Ab. It worked perfectly for all measures. Richard Huggins From: Robert Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Ars Nova Technologies, LLC Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 14:07:30 -0500

Re: [Finale] Transpose half a chord

2003-10-12 Thread Richard Huggins
Yes, I used # for sharp and b for flat. And I didn't designate a pitch number either, such as G4. Just G# and Ab. By the way, I tried this on two-note chords--since you had mentioned that--and also tried it on multiple G# pitch locations over two measures and all of them changed to Ab. Obviously

Re: [Finale] Where have all my notes gone?

2003-10-10 Thread Richard Huggins
From: LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED] A puzzle: I used an existing file, created in WinFin2k3, emptied it, filled it with new notes (easy because of same layout etc.). But now I cannot get a good music spacing, as if Finale remembers the old notes, weird. First, make sure the systems are

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 for Mac...good news and bad news

2003-10-10 Thread Richard Huggins
I run Mac F2k2 using OS 8.6 on a non-G3 Powerbook 3400 with 3GB HD space, SCSCI-connected to a Powerbook 1400 (acting as a SCSI drive) for a total of 6 GB. The external PB is full up and the main PB has 1MB available. Until I can upgrade my CPU I will upgrade to OS 9 ( since I can't run OS X) and

Re: [Finale] Help with moving initial left barline

2003-10-06 Thread Richard Huggins
You mean that if, for example, the left margin were x centimeters, you'd want the margin on that one stave to be x-1 centimeters? I don't know how you'd do that (I couldn't) but why not make the other staves x PLUS 1 creating a similar effect? Richard From: Steve Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Help with moving initial left barline

2003-10-06 Thread Richard Huggins
Oh...DUH to me... All you have to do is UNcheck Avoid Margin Collisions in the Page Layout menu, then in the Edit Systems box set the left value to a negative number. --Richard From: Steve Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 00:15:29 -0400 To: finale mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] TAN: Extension ranges on ... Bass Clarinet

2003-10-03 Thread Richard Huggins
Ray, your statement is curious to me. First I'm not exactly certain what you mean by mere alteration of the printed pitch. What's mere about it? Are you suggesting that a ledger-line note is more respected than a note with an 8va on it? Second, are you saying that the performer might arbitrarily

Re: [Finale] TAN: Extension ranges on ... Bass Clarinet

2003-10-03 Thread Richard Huggins
Geez, Roy...you took my message way wrong. When I said curious, that's exactly and only what I meant. Nothing more and most certainly nothing adversarial! That being said, I can relate to the notion of the player second-guessing something that seems to be an example of an arranger or composer who

Re: Attachments - was Re: [Finale] Beam

2003-10-02 Thread Richard Huggins
Sorry...I did not think about the digest when I supported occasional attachments. Your point is well taken. Persons without access to a website can create a free one on geocities.com and probably a few other places as well, and easily upload simple graphics for web reference by others. RH

Re: [Finale] Massedit

2003-10-01 Thread Richard Huggins
You can't use Copy to copy a measure to the Clipboard, then Paste it onto another measure of music but get only the articulations. You CAN, however, use the Opt.-Click method (that's the Mac way) and it works great. With the MM tool, highlight the measure(s) containing the articulations you want

[Finale] Dedicated workstation

2003-09-27 Thread Richard Huggins
I'm just wondering how many of you have a Finale (or Finale/MIDI)-dedicated workstation? That is, a computer/MIDI set-up that only is for the purpose of engraving and perhaps related activities (such as MIDI sequencing, maybe audio processing). In other words, your Internet, business activities,

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 3 - no scroll mode

2003-09-26 Thread Richard Huggins
From: Craig Parmerlee [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is like some tortured game of whack-a-mole. Great imagery!! --RH ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Re: bug with auto spacing on FinMac 2003?

2003-09-23 Thread Richard Huggins
By as documented I meant that Auto Space/Update is not *supposed*to be invoked when the speedy frame advances to the next measure. In other words, it doesn't update because it is working as designed. However, it should be invoked whenever the speedy frame goes away, by whatever means it does go

Re: [Finale] bug with auto spacing on FinMac 2003?

2003-09-22 Thread Richard Huggins
I'm using 2003 on Mac OS 8.6 and, as documented, Auto Update/Spacing is not invoked when Speedy moves from one measure to the next. But when anything causes the Speedy frame to go away, Auto Update/Spacing should take place, including if I click on MM tool while the frame still is showing. By the

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-21 Thread Richard Huggins
Can we expect this current spam attack to die a natural death or is it self-perpetuating, ad infinitum? It's quite a problem at present. --Richard ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Page reduction vs. Staff reduction (again!)

2003-09-20 Thread Richard Huggins
From: Robert Patterson Finale [EMAIL PROTECTED] We system-reducers have led you page-reducers to water. Will you drink? I'm just curious about one facet of all this...the example (which has been mentioned previously) of different pages having different reductions. I am sensing that this

Re: [Finale] Page reduction vs. Staff reduction (again!)

2003-09-19 Thread Richard Huggins
Not to state the obvious (but going ahead and doing so, in case it benefits someone else), if I go to system reduction I'll have to reduce the font size of the page text blocks by an equal percentage of the page reduction percentage I used to use, if I want the newly-printed music to look similar

Re: [Finale] Re: lyrics discussion [LONG] (was Re: BUG fix / FIN 2k5 Feature Request)

2003-09-19 Thread Richard Huggins
I presume that what you know works is the latter of the two options you suggested below, because when this all started being discussed I tried the former and it does not work. For one thing, the thickness of the line is reduced proportionally. So if you get it short enough by using something like

Re: [Finale] Page reduction vs. Staff reduction (again!)

2003-09-19 Thread Richard Huggins
Considering lyrics Lyrics on an 80% page with 100% systems would be 80% of 12 points (for example), right? (In other words, the 100% system setting does not stop the lyrics from being reduced by the page reduction. Or am I wrong?) Return the page to 100% they go to full 12 point but reduce

Re: [Finale] Re: Meet The Composer site

2003-09-18 Thread Richard Huggins
I'm curious if that $2500 included engraving/score prep or if you (or someone) got extra for that. Typically do you include that in your commissions? Richard From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:23:17 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Finale] Re:

Re: [Finale] Charge for commission

2003-09-17 Thread Richard Huggins
From: Andrew Stiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] I find it absolutely impossible to count hours spent composing, especially since, as has been pointed out somewhere, so much of the composing process looks like goofing off. Funny remark, but true. There is a lot of thinking, tinkering, doing,

Re: [Finale] lyrics discussion

2003-09-15 Thread Richard Huggins
Click Assignment has its degree of usefullness, but I sure as heck wish they'd replace the click part. I hate moving the mouse to the next syllable, clicking, then rinse and repeat to the end. I would like to be able to use keystrokes to do this, for the sake of speed. I don't share such a

Re: [Finale] Feature request, Fin 2k5

2003-09-15 Thread Richard Huggins
Or at least an option that might say something such as, Add to Same Library in Default Document? So that next time you open your default document, that whatever has been added. Good idea. RH From: Noel Stoutenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to ask that Finale be modified so that when one has

Re: [Finale] Happy Birthday; was Nukey-ler mus-kulls

2003-09-14 Thread Richard Huggins
Here is a thorough (and interesting) history of Happy Birthday. http://www.attachemag.com/archives/01-02/story2/story2.htm --Richard From: helgesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wow! What a great question for a trivia night! Any idea when- and where? I guess UK or USA- but that's only by the ladies

Re: [Finale] Blues key signatures revisitied

2003-09-14 Thread Richard Huggins
I can't think of many justifications for persisting with something that by all reasonable evaluation torments the twin causes of readibility and playability. --Richard From: Chuck Israels [EMAIL PROTECTED] As Dave has observed, the saxophone parts are unnecessarily difficult to read with

Re: [Finale] Happy Birthday; was Nukey-ler mus-kulls

2003-09-14 Thread Richard Huggins
From: John Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] It was written by a couple of American sisters and published in (I think) the 1890s with the text, Good morning to you, etc. So the melody and those words are public domain. The Happy Birthday text was published in the 1930s, and is still under copyright

Re: [Finale] Hairpins

2003-09-13 Thread Richard Huggins
From: helgesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible to insert hairpins -(cresendo up or down) to show on all staves in a score. I know one is offered a choice in Expressions- i.e. Show on all staves or this Stave only -but is such a choice offered on appropriate smart shapes. I accept it

Re: [Finale] Plugin wish (another one for Tobias?)

2003-09-13 Thread Richard Huggins
Diverting from your question, I'm curious as to what you think is your advantage in keeping these individual pieces all in one file? I've arranged --and engraved for the publisher-- four piano collections of 10-12 pieces each, and I can't think of any advantage, but CAN think of enormous

Re: [Finale] Plugin wish (another one for Tobias?)

2003-09-13 Thread Richard Huggins
: [Finale] Plugin wish (another one for Tobias?) On 13.09.2003 20:40 Uhr, Richard Huggins wrote Diverting from your question, I'm curious as to what you think is your advantage in keeping these individual pieces all in one file? I've arranged --and engraved for the publisher-- four piano

Re: [Finale] Happy Birthday; was Nukey-ler mus-kulls

2003-09-13 Thread Richard Huggins
Two sisters, Mildred and Patty Hill, wrote it. Summy-Birchard, Inc. controls the copyright. Yes, it is a royalty-earning song everytime it is heard on TV or movies. Wish I'd written it! Richard From: helgesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK- here's a thought. Who wrote Happy Birthday- and when? I

Re: [Finale] Resize staff tool

2003-09-09 Thread Richard Huggins
If you change the settings in the System Scaling area of the Page Format for Score defaults to whatever scale it is you have changed the existing staffs to, any new ones will take on those same dimensions. Richard From: Ray Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:59:26 -0400 To:

Re: [Finale] Barline question

2003-09-07 Thread Richard Huggins
Are you talking about a vertical line, like a barline except in the middle of a measure? If so, you wouldn't want it solid, you'd want it broken (dashed). You can do it by using the dashed line tool from the Smart Shape pallette. Press Shift, double-click at the top of the measure and drag

[Finale] Dot question

2003-09-05 Thread Richard Huggins
On a double-stemmed, unison dotted note, where two layers have been involved in creating the unison, Finale will put only one dot if the note's on a space but two (one above, one below) it it's on a line. I don't know if there's a notational standard for this situation, but I don't recall seeing

Re: [Finale] repeats

2003-09-04 Thread Richard Huggins
From: Andrew Stiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, how do I (in FinMac 2K2) put a cautionary key and time change into a measure when the following measure does not in fact change time or key? This comes up because a first ending requires these cautions (the measure to wh. it jumps has the new key

Re: [Finale] Blues mode key signature

2003-08-30 Thread Richard Huggins
Perhaps this is not as compelling an argument, but I think seeing the C-naturals affects the players in a positive way as they convey the overall blues feel, if you will. It's all metaphysical, I suppose, but then so is follow-through on a golf swing... -Richard From: Chuck Israels [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] ARRRRRRRGHHHHH

2003-08-29 Thread Richard Huggins
Beta you den me, boss! RH From: Bruce Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:22:55 -0700 To: Richard Huggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Finale] ARRRGH From: Richard Huggins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe the beta testers found a flaw in the original shirt RH

Re: [Finale] Make mass mover move expression marks - addendum

2003-08-29 Thread Richard Huggins
From: Craig Parmerlee [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the drag operation can't copy everything, then it ought to be disabled altogether. Oh man--I'm going to mark that comment up to sheer frustration and fatigue! You would disable everything else the feature can do (and rob us all) because it won't do

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