[Finale] OT: Tech Investor: Apple's scary season (fwd)

2002-09-18 Thread Eden - Lawrence D.
With regard to our recent discussion about Apple... Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] TECH INVESTOR from CNN/Money and Business 2.0 Monday, September 16, 2002 Apple's scary season Market share is down, Microsoft is upset, and Quark is nowhere to be seen. The company has some mean challenges to

[Finale] The talent on this list: Hindson in Andante

2002-09-18 Thread Randolph Peters
Dear Finale Listers, One of our list regulars (and tireless Finale advocate) is featured in an article in today's Andante. Way to go Matthew! http://www.andante.com/magazine/article.cfm?id=18422 Do I get browny points for programming him back in 1995 at our New Music Festival in Winnipeg?

Re: [Finale] Incredible flying articulations

2002-09-18 Thread Crystal Premo
I don't know if this is related, but on my system (FinMac 2002 on Mac OS 8.0) fermatas on rests display erratically. It is a screen thing only, though. They appear fine on the page, though it can be confusing trying to adjust them when they're displaying wrong. Redrawing the screen usually

Re: [Finale] The talent on this list: Hindson in Andante

2002-09-18 Thread One of the McKays
At the school where I teach piano today, two students were performing Hindson pieces for their final year exams [HSC to us Aussies, or New South Welshgeezers]. I think there was a saxophone piece and a piece being played on cello. The cellist was a real character. He was so excited, he didn't

Re: [Finale] TAN G4s/Mac OSX and Apple's decision

2002-09-18 Thread Rocky Road
And so it came to pass that Darcy James Argue spake: On 9/17/02 7:53 AM or thereabouts, Rocky Road [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Well then I must try it out. Its the one with tabs for each window right? OmniWeb 4.1 doesn't have tabbed browsing (version 5.0 will), but in contrast to IE it:

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-18 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Sep 2002 at 20:09, Mark D. Lew wrote: In various posts, David W. Fenton wrote: This is completely unacceptable behavior -- it is basically completely unusable in any fashion, by any of the various methods. What the hell am I going to do here? I'm coming into this discussion a

Re: [Finale] TAN G4s/Mac OSX and Apple's decision

2002-09-18 Thread David W. Fenton
On 18 Sep 2002 at 22:17, Rocky Road wrote: Still, I wish there was a browser that would say you used five windows last time, so here are those five again in the exact place you left them. Opera does this. It's one of the things about it I didn't like (though it can be turned off).

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-18 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Sep 2002 at 23:18, Robert Patterson wrote: If I were typesetting the Hallelujah Chorus, my Edit Lyrics box might well just contain the Hallelujah word once. (Well, actually probably twice: once at the beginning and once at the end.) I know this helps David very little now, but

Re: [Finale] transferring doc options

2002-09-18 Thread Richard Yates
Thank you Robert. I note that these new files were last modified in the year 2040. This does explain how you are able to get so much work done! Richard Yates - Original Message - From: Robert Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:04 AM

Re: [Finale] transferring doc options

2002-09-18 Thread Richard Yates
Thank you Robert. I note that these new files were last modified in the year 2040. This does explain how you are able to get so much work done! (And could you loan your time machine to David so he can go back to before he entered his lyrics - or ahead to 2040 when Coda has fixed the bug?)

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-18 Thread Thomas Schaller
David W. Fenton wrote: When I choose EDIT LYRICS, this text is not even there! It's in there somewhere, probably a duplicate of a syllable you're using elsewhere. If you really want to find it, use the type in score function to change it to something ridiculously large and watch to see

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-18 Thread Robert Patterson
On Wed, 18 September 2002, David W. Fenton wrote: Those are all indications of an ill-thought-out UI and bugs in the implementation. David, David. This is Finale we are talking about. Aren't you one of its long-term users? Ill-thought-out UI and bugs in implementation have historically

[Finale] Resizing Page

2002-09-18 Thread Susan Lackman
This is probably a duh questions, but - I wrote something for wind ensemble, and the score features very small staves. There's a lot of space at the top and bottom of an 8-1/2 x 11 sheet, but I don't know how to spread the score out. Ideally I could do something like what happens when one

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-18 Thread Philip Aker
On Tuesday, Sep 17, 2002, at 05:42 US/Pacific, David W. Fenton wrote: Sorry I haven't been following this thread closely, but if there are messed up lyrics you can export all lyrics to a text file with the Extract Lyrics plugin and see what's going on. There is a labeling option which can be

Re: [Finale] OT: Tech Investor: Apple's scary season (fwd)

2002-09-18 Thread Philip Aker
On Wednesday, Sep 18, 2002, at 10:18 US/Pacific, Darcy James Argue wrote: Apple already has 100,000 .Mac subscribers -- (I'm still mulling over whether keeping my existing email address for another year is worth $50 to me), I think I'm going to stay with .mac for another year since it

[Finale] Jef's Improved JazzCord Font

2002-09-18 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hey everyone, As you may remember, a while back I made an online plea for someone with Fontographer to make some long-needed improvements to the default JazzCord font -- specifically, to isolate some characters used in combination with other characters in the suffix glyphs and make them

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-18 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 9:08 AM -0400 9/18/02, David W. Fenton wrote: On 17 Sep 2002 at 19:34, Thomas Schaller wrote: first of all - about the problem of having screwed up your original lyrics: I'm afraid that those lyrics are no good anymore - depending on how much you changed in the copied section you might

Re: [Finale] Jef's Improved JazzCord Font

2002-09-18 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 4:29 PM -0400 9/18/02, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hey everyone, As you may remember, a while back I made an online plea for someone with Fontographer to make some long-needed improvements to the default JazzCord font -- specifically, to isolate some characters used in combination with other

Re: [Finale] Resizing Page

2002-09-18 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 3:18 PM -0400 9/18/02, Susan Lackman wrote: This is probably a duh questions, but - I wrote something for wind ensemble, and the score features very small staves. There's a lot of space at the top and bottom of an 8-1/2 x 11 sheet, but I don't know how to spread the score out. Ideally I

Re: [Finale] Resizing Page

2002-09-18 Thread Burt Fenner
Under Page Layout select Space Systems or if you Jarri's plug-ins use his Space Systems. BF - Original Message - From: Susan Lackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Finale List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:18 PM Subject: [Finale] Resizing Page This is probably a duh

Re: [Finale] Resizing Page

2002-09-18 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Susan Lackman wrote: This is probably a duh questions, but - I wrote something for wind ensemble, and the score features very small staves. There's a lot of space at the top and bottom of an 8-1/2 x 11 sheet, but I don't know how to spread the score out. I'd 1) Select the resize tool

[Finale] Re: Delivery failure notification

2002-09-18 Thread Crystal Premo
I received this notification in excess of fifty times today. It is nothing but the original post I put up about why my articulations have been flying about. I have received one real reply to it, and I don't understand what all the rest of them are about. Any ideas? With reference to your

Re: [Finale] Re: Delivery failure notification

2002-09-18 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Crystal Premo wrote: I received this notification in excess of fifty times today. It is nothing but the original post I put up about why my articulations have been flying about. I have received one real reply to it, and I don't understand what all the rest of them are about. Any ideas?

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-18 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 03:58 PM 9/18/02 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote: If it seems like I'm defensive of the system, it's because I'm a little miffed to see a person who, by his own admission, a week ago had no idea how lyrics work, and by the evidence of his posts still doesn't really understand it, nevertheless has the

[Finale] Re: ?'s Improved JazzCord Font

2002-09-18 Thread shirling neueweise
With Jef's blessing... bless. no claims to distribution control here, it's all darcy's doing, i just pounded the keys he told me to. um... christopher... well, it's nice and all [gosh, i might even be blushing], but, like, well, i don't think what i did merits having a child named after

[Finale] Re: ?'s Improved JazzCord Font

2002-09-18 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 1:08 AM +0200 9/19/02, shirling neueweise wrote: With Jef's blessing... bless. no claims to distribution control here, it's all darcy's doing, i just pounded the keys he told me to. jef Oops, one more question. Is this font PC-compatible? Or just Mac? 'Cause all my students are on

[Finale] Re: ?'s Improved JazzCord Font

2002-09-18 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 1:08 AM +0200 9/19/02, shirling neueweise wrote: um... christopher... well, it's nice and all [gosh, i might even be blushing], but, like, well, i don't think what i did merits having a child named after me... but if you insist on paying some form of tribute to me through your next child,

Re: [Finale] Re: Delivery failure notification

2002-09-18 Thread Crystal Premo
sounds like a Microsoft bug (IIRC, hotmail is a Microsoft service) to me. Forward a but report to them. I think you must mean butt report. I believe I saw the original message on the list, though, so I don't think the message is accurate. I believe I saw the original message on the list,