Re: [Finale] OT again: importing Eudora settings

2002-04-21 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:26 AM 04/21/02, Thomas Schaller wrote: And last week, after all the server software changes I gave up on Eudora too and went over to Outlook - I just couldn't get Eudora NOT to display the minimal Internet header info - it seems one can disable the long Internet header info, but the

Re: [Finale] Re: Finale digest, Vol 1 #85 - 3 msgs

2002-04-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:43 AM 04/23/02, KEVIN AUSTIN wrote: Hmmm ... me too, but I've been trying to unsub for over a week and have remained remarkablt unsuccessful. (I can't get my _required_ **password**, I'm not sure why some people seem to be having problems with this. The following steps should work: Go

Re: [Finale] Smart slurs - avoiding artics.

2002-05-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:41 AM 05/03/02, Don Hart wrote: I'm trying to get smart slurs feature in Finmac 2k2b to avoid an articulation in a figure that occurs often in a piece. Space around objects in Smart Slur Options is set to 18 EVPUs and doesn't have any effect. Attach to notes is selected. I think

Re: [Finale] Font request

2002-05-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:12 AM 05/03/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a score I'm working on requires the mfz symbol. I know that I can do it as a graphic, but I'd prefer to have it as part of a font. Does anyone know of a font with that symbol? You can do this yourself in Finale. Create a new text expression,

Re: [Finale] Font request

2002-05-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:26 AM 05/03/02, Jari Williamsson wrote: Maestro: Put the characters 189 and 90 together as an expression. In Windows, it becomes ½Z, don't know what it is on the Mac. That's the symmetric solution to the one I gave. g The first of these chars is 'm', and the second is 'fz'. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] Fin 2003

2002-05-31 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:41 PM 05/31/02, Jim Williams wrote: Hey, I haven't got the ad yet! Maybe I'm on the crap list for my criticisms. Anyone want to forward it?? Just go to http://www.codamusic.com/finale/index.asp Aaron ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Finale 2003 Review

2002-06-01 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:20 PM 06/01/02, Jari Williamsson wrote: Finale 2003 review with some tips at: http://www.finaletips.nu/ Thanks, Jari. Once again, my decision about upgrading is based on your information, not on Coda's. I am particularly intrigued by some shortcomings you mention in some of the new

Re: [Finale] Back to basics.

2002-06-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:36 AM 06/03/02, Mark D. Lew wrote: I wish they'd add to speedy entry a key that toggles between normal mode and a mode where entering a note (ie typing a number) doesn't advance the cursor. That would cut out all those left-arrows with the right thumb, which slow me down. That's an

Re: [Finale] Beam Over Barline

2002-06-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:20 PM 06/03/02, 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. Looks absolutely brilliant, after an admittedly quick test. (One instance of 8ths, one instance of 16ths, one

Re: [Finale] Finale 2003

2002-06-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:24 AM 06/06/02, Giz Bowe wrote: Has anyone received Fin2k3 yet? I ordered on-line Saturday and am watching for the mailman with my cat Mickey (whose daily high-point is watching mail come in the mail-slot!). Also ordered Saturday, also still waiting. It seems that the last couple of

Re: [Finale] Finale 2003

2002-06-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:06 PM 06/06/02, David H. Bailey wrote: I ordered on Saturday, too, and am still waiting. Nothing in Thursday's mail -- I *really* hope they're not holding things up for the t-shirts. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] It's here!

2002-06-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:20 AM 06/07/02, Giz Bowe wrote: FedEx rang my bell at 10:30 and got my cat Mickey all excited. The t-shirt is nice, a pale blue this time, with a larger Finale 2003 logo.x Oh, I'm very jealous. Still not here (in Baltimore), although FedEx sometimes comes late to my neighborhood.

[Finale] Fin 2003 comments (somewhat long)

2002-06-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
Mine finally did come this afternoon, and I've spent a couple of hours playing with it; herewith a few observations. I preface all of this by saying that the Group Optimization feature is worth the price of the upgrade for me, regardless of other features or irritations. I actually kind of

Re: [Finale] Fin 2003 comments (somewhat long)

2002-06-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:18 AM 06/08/02, Jari Williamsson wrote: Aaron Sherber writes: The new Document Options window is better than the old setup, on the whole, but there are still some problems. First of all, they seemed to have chosen the window size based on the largest of the old options windows

Re: [Finale] f2k3

2002-06-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:03 AM 06/08/02, Mark D. Lew wrote: Somebody ought to tell Tom how to spell a cappella, [...] Every dictionary I have lists both spellings as legitimate. My Norton/Grove says that 'cappella' is the Italian spelling of the word for 'chapel', and 'capella' is the Latin one. Since 'a

Re: [Finale] MassMover Icon

2002-06-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:41 PM 06/13/02, D. Keneth Fowler wrote: Who said recently that the MassMover locomotive icon could be added to Fin2003 (just for old times sake)? You can add UseTruckCursor=1 to the [Settings] section, but this will just give you back the truck cursor that displays when you are

[Finale] Arpeggios

2002-06-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
In the past, when I've had to indicate rolled chords on the piano, I've used the arpeggio articulation, which has been a real pain -- it never appears in the correct place, and I have to remember which handle stretches it and which handle moves it, and if I want to adjust it, I have to

Re: [Finale] Arpeggios

2002-06-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:13 PM 06/13/02, Mark D. Lew wrote: Regarding the arpeggio articulation, I agree that they're clumsy, but there are ways to lessen the pain. The main thing is to define the articulation as centered horizontally and then give it a big negative value for the horizontal handle position.

Re: [Finale] Macintosh; plug-ins; macro programs.

2002-06-21 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:52 PM 06/21/02, Michael Edwards wrote: Yes, this is something else I had intended to ask about. I believe there are three or four members of this list who produce plug-ins which might be useful. I'm not sure, but I think three of these people are Tobias Giesen, Robert Patterson,

RE: [Finale] Macintosh; plug-ins; macro programs.

2002-06-21 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:51 PM 06/21/02, Dan Rupert wrote: Maybe I'm misunderstanding something here but I do this from _within_ Finale (rather than from TGT). Heh...I guess I never knew you could do that from within Finale. Learn something new every day. g Perhaps you mean that you program _additional_

Re: [Finale] Custom lines

2002-06-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:03 AM 06/22/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote: With the custom line tool (Smart Shapes) is there a way to limit movement vertically? Hold down the shift key as you double-click and drag -- this will constrain movement to horizontal or vertical. Aaron.

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

2002-06-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:14 AM 06/22/02, Michael Edwards wrote: So if I'm using Windows, what are the options for a macro program? Jari mentioned TGTools and Forza! Quick Navigator. Would those be the main ones you had in mind for Windows? Or is a macro program something quite different from those

Re: [Finale] Custom lines

2002-06-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:25 AM 06/22/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 22.06.2002 16:29 Uhr, Aaron Sherber wrote At 10:03 AM 06/22/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote: With the custom line tool (Smart Shapes) is there a way to limit movement vertically? Hold down the shift key as you double-click and drag

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-06-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:47 PM 06/27/02, David W. Fenton wrote: What I need is advice on how to help her export the musical examples to EPS files that will embed in MS Word 2000 documents that can be sent to the printer and be portable. I'm sure you will get lots of different answers to this. Personally, for

Re: [Finale] New to Speedy.

2002-06-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:00 PM 06/27/02, helgesen wrote: BTW what IS the correct procedure when even Control, Alt, Delete won't work? Unplug? Power off? Five pound sledge hammer? Wild Turkey/Jack Daniels/Fosters/urine in Hard drive? Upgrade to Win2000. g No, seriously, your best option at that point is

Re: [Finale] 3 against 4 TAN

2002-06-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
In addition to the various things about butter (I personally learned eat your goddamned spinach), you can also approach this rhythm the other way: Aunt Mary bakes a cake. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] 3 against 4 TAN

2002-06-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:50 PM 06/30/02, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 09:37 PM 6/30/02 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote: That's a... erhm... nicer version of what I believe to be the original mnemonic, pass the goddamn butter. I'm not getting any of this. What is that supposed to help with? Maybe you have to

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:10 PM 07/04/02, David W. Fenton wrote: The platform is PC for Finale and Word, where the documents to go to the PROFESSIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGNER are produced. Professional Graphic Designers work just as happily with TIFF as with EPS. I asked about the pitfalls of producing the EPS files

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:34 AM 07/13/02, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Yes, Yes, Yes! More intelligent accis handling in Speedy is something I forgot in my list. I would also like this to extend to non-Midi input (which I do quite frequently when I am abroad) and have accis last for a whole measure during entry

Re: [Finale] Inserting a clef change-Bass clarinet

2002-07-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:16 AM 07/16/02, Christopher Zello wrote: I'm having a lot of trouble getting a clef change to appear in a bass clarinet part. Premise: I'm trying to write a bass clt. part which moves between treble and bass clef. I need the ability to change clefs at the beginning of a bar and, at

Re: [Finale] Inserting a clef change-Bass clarinet

2002-07-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:56 PM 07/16/02, Andrew Stiller wrote: This is not good advice. First of all, the bass clarinet does indeed use the bass clef in the traditional notation practices of many Central and Eastern European countries, most prominently including Germany and Austria. In that notation, the

Re: [Finale] Spacing of extracted parts

2002-09-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:46 AM 09/20/02, Andrew Stiller wrote: Opeions/Document Settings/Music Spacing Options: Avoid Collision of: Articulations. Turning on this setting will automatically give you proper spacing for the arpeggio signs, and there will be no need to tweak anything. Very interesting. Extracting

Re: [Finale] Spacing of extracted parts

2002-09-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:27 PM 09/20/02, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: You have to adjust this in the extracted parts, unfortunately.  Right, that's where I started out. g I was hoping that I was missing an easier way. Thanks, Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] Collision of 2nds between layers Blank Notation

2002-09-26 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:12 PM 09/26/02, David W. Fenton wrote: Sorry, but I looked high and low on the menus and in the OLD, but cannot find any setting to clear manual spacing. Where is it? Obviously, I'm just not looking in the right place. Document Options | Music Spacing. Manual Positioning = Ignore |

Re: [Finale] Measure number regions

2002-09-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:24 PM 09/27/02, Éric Dussault wrote: It makes me wonder why would someone use scroll view nowadays unless for very specific reasons (slur that crosses page or cresc. etc.). I understand that someone who has a very old computer would do it and also know that it has been design years ago

Re: [Finale] Re: Measure number regions

2002-10-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:05 AM 10/02/02, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: things with a pencil, connecting here, blending there. Even if I don't lay them out, I can simultaneously hold open pages 3 and 25, comparing them, which I can't do in Finale. Sure you can -- just open a second window on the document. I do

Re: [Finale] Clef Tool Not Working on One Measure

2002-10-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:22 PM 10/08/02, Joel Sears wrote: I had similar problems. I hope someone comes up with a better solution. What I did is similar to Aaron. I deleted the measure and then inserted a new measure. It worked fine in both cases, but if your working on a score, it's a terrible pain. For me,

[Finale] Re: TAN: Anomalies in 'Le Sacre...' Score (was Re: [Finale]Clef refuses to display)

2002-10-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:58 AM 10/13/02, Mark D. Lew wrote: At 11:47 PM 10/12/02, Colin Broom wrote: Ok, I'll come clean. For reasons that are too uninteresting to explain, I've been putting the Introduction of Part 1 of of Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring' into Finale. Suffice to say it's related to the

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:38 AM 10/23/02, Jari Williamsson wrote: Layout Manager in Forza! will do that, although it will give you a bit more options regarding measure distribution and page breaks than this. I'll see if I can put a draft of this specific feature in the next couple of betas. That sounds fantastic,

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:55 AM 10/23/02, Rick Neal wrote: Have you tried TGTools: Layout - Fit Measures - specify the number of systems you want to distribute the highlighted measures into? This is close, but it doesn't quite do what I'm looking for. For example, I've got a page of music with 5 systems, and one

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:54 AM 10/23/02, Barbara Touburg wrote: TGTools Fit Music does this. Just select the music that you want to be on the page, count the systems, and let TGTools redistribute the music. Works fine for me. I had some problems (detailed in another post) in getting this to work as I would like.

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:01 AM 10/23/02, Rick Neal wrote: I just now had to do this with a page with 8 staff systems and one measure on the next page. When I used TGTools it redistributed the entire page NOT just cramming the extra measure into the last system. No system looks any more crowded than another. After my

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea and TGTools

2002-10-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
Okay, I've done some other spot tests, and it seems that in most cases TGTools Fit Measures does do what I'm looking for. In a few cases, though, it does just cram the extra measure into the previous system without reflowing anything. I guess that its internal algorithm might decide that this

Re: [Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:25 PM 10/23/02, David H. Bailey wrote: No, I think she means BEFORE running TGTools. Okay -- well then, yes, I did. Unless I'm misunderstanding the question. If the suggestion was that I select those measures and apply a different spacing algorithm to them to get them to fit, then I

[Finale] Clef changes and MM rests

2002-10-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, Could someone please remind me of the workaround for fixing spacing when you've got a clef change at the end of a multi-measure rest? Thanks, Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

RE: [Finale] Clef changes and MM rests

2002-10-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:27 PM 10/22/02, Lee Actor wrote: What I do is select the Measure Tool, click on the multimeasure rest in question, select Measure-Multimeasure Rest-Edit from the menu, and set the End Point to -50. Ahh, thanks. I couldn't remember where that setting was. Of course, it's in a fairly

[Finale] Plugin idea

2002-10-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
When I extract parts from a score and then go to tweak each part, I seem to spend much of my time in scenarios like this: Right-hand page has no rests on it, but there's a nice long rest 3 bars into the next page. So I use Mass Mover to nudge those three bars into the previous line, which

Re: [Finale] Best way to input this music?

2002-10-24 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:09 PM 10/24/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The music I am trying to input his mostly six quarter notes or rests per every 4 beats, it's in 4/4/ time. If I input them as quarter notes, I run into the excess notes problem before I use the Tuplet tool.  You don't mention which entry method

Re: [Finale] Scanning (again)

2002-10-26 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:51 AM 10/26/02, Crystal Premo wrote: The man who owns the studio where I do the Finale work has been told that Finale 2003 scans music perfectly, This is flat out not true. I think it certainly works better than it has in the past, but it is in no way perfect. Some here have suggested that

Re: [Finale] Scanning (again)

2002-10-26 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:41 AM 10/26/02, Crystal Premo wrote: This is what I have requested. The person who alleges that this will be a snap claims, however, that it will be necessary to upgrade to 2003 to achieve this, so the owner will have to shell out for that first. Not true. Although the scanned and OCR'ed

Re: [Finale] Embedded fonts

2002-10-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:07 AM 10/28/02, Eric Ruyle wrote: When I try to create a pdf of a piece of music, I am having troubles with the font (Maestro) not being embedded in the file. I tried reading the help-info and it states that it will embed if using 35% or less of the font. Is there a way around this? This is

Re: [Finale] Improvements query

2002-10-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:57 PM 10/29/02, Robert Patterson wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Patsy Moore wrote: 1. Having to click on the note to bring up an articulation handle? Still necessary in Finale 2003. Although if you have the Selection Tool selected, you can click the articulation directly to reposition

Re: [Finale] Selection Tool (was Improvements query)

2002-10-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:21 AM 10/30/02, Patsy Moore wrote: That sounds as if it may be something of an improvement, though it sounds as if it's still only possible to deal with one artic. at a time. What is it that you want to do with multiple articulations? With the articulation tool, you can select several

[Finale] Halving note values

2002-10-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hello all, I have an extended passage in 3/2 which I would like to change to 3/4 by halving all note values. So I do Mass Mover | Change | Note Durations to 50%, and then I change the time signature. The only problem is measure-attached smart shapes, like hairpins. I'm guessing that these

RE: [Finale] Halving note values

2002-10-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:14 PM 10/30/02, Tobias Giesen wrote: sorry I spoke too soon, you were talking about smart shapes ... if you want I can implement that too. Yes, please! Thanks, Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Moving notes in a chord to another layer

2002-11-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:13 PM 11/02/02, Andrew Stiller wrote: On a slightly different subject: it would be valuable (to me at least) if there were some way to change an existing slur to a dashed slur, and vice-versa. Plugin, anyone? TGTools has this, in Modify | Special Modifications | Alter Smart Shapes. Aaron.

[Finale] Whole notes in percussion

2002-11-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, Again, I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. I've got a percussion staff set up with a percussion map. The problem is that when I want a whole note on that staff, Finale insists on using the half note head (without stem), since that's what is selected as the open note head in the

Re: [Finale] Whole notes in percussion

2002-11-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:53 PM 11/06/02, Aaron Sherber wrote: Again, I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. Yah, nevermind -- I found it. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Whole notes in percussion

2002-11-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:52 PM 11/06/02, Barbara Touburg wrote: But what was the solution? Well, I found two solutions, although neither one turned out to be as good as I thought. The first was the Change Noteheads plugin. I had hoped that by selecting a whole region and choosing change to 'Standard music

Re: [Finale] Whole notes in percussion

2002-11-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:15 AM 11/07/02, David H. Bailey wrote: What I have found in working with percussion parts is to NOT change the default shapes which appear in the dialog where we create the percussion map. The only time I change anything is when I want something specifically different such as an X notehead.

Re: [Finale] Whole notes in percussion

2002-11-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:30 AM 11/07/02, Darcy James Argue wrote: I seem to recall you mentioning that this was a timpani staff? If so, why are you using a percussion map for pitched percussion? IMO, the only time you should be using percussion maps is for unpitched percussion. It's not actually a timpani staff

RE: [Finale] Add cue notes bug?

2002-11-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:53 AM 11/07/02, Tobias Giesen wrote: this is a known issue and it will be fixed in the maintenance release. Thanks, Tobias -- good to know it's not just me. g Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Whole notes in percussion

2002-11-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:54 AM 11/07/02, Darcy James Argue wrote: Well, obviously those are notated with standard noteheads, not X-noteheads. Yes -- although most of the entries in Finale's default percussion maps use standard noteheads rather than X noteheads. Since you are evidently using standard noteheads, I

Re: [Finale] Whole notes in percussion

2002-11-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:07 PM 11/07/02, David H. Bailey wrote: That's odd, because when I don't change things, normal whole notes show up when I enter them. I just checked, and sure enough the behavior you are reporting is happening -- I think this must be a bug introduced in 2003! I have a score in front of me

Re: [Finale] Note Expressions

2002-11-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:29 PM 11/07/02, David W. Fenton wrote: The problem is that I can't have a note-attached expressions *unless* I first create a metatool for it. Sure you can -- select the Expression tool, point at a note (single crosshair cursor, with quarter note), and double-click. You should see 'Note

Re: [Finale] Note Expressions

2002-11-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:50 PM 11/07/02, David W. Fenton wrote: On 7 Nov 2002 at 16:24, David H. Bailey wrote: When you click on the note the dialogue to select the expression opens up -- at the bottom of this box are two radio buttons to select measure expression or note expression. Simply click Note

Re: [Finale] Note Expressions

2002-11-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:54 PM 11/07/02, David W. Fenton wrote: Is it sticky? It seems that it stays with the previously chosen setting each time I open the dialog again. For me, the key is the cursor. If you are pointing at 'empty' space, you will see a cursor that looks like a double-arrow. If you double-click,

Re: [Finale] Global tuplet reconfiguring?

2002-11-09 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:48 PM 11/09/02, Giz Bowe wrote: Is it possible to change every existing tuplet without manually adjusting each one? Mass Mover | Change | Tuplets. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] back on the list

2002-11-10 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:45 PM 11/10/02, Stig Christensen wrote: I have been away from Finale and this list fore about a year, but now I have to work again with Finale and I'm looking forward to that. Could you please be so kind to inform me, if it's a good idea to upgrade from my present version (win 2002) to 2003,

Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney

2002-11-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:02 PM 11/11/02, hymnist wrote: NOW---for an easier way to type in notes with the keyboard. You mean something easier than Speedy Entry? This turns the three rows of a QWERTY keyboard into three octaves of notes, with durations entered either with the number keys up top or the numeric

Re: [Finale] 4/4 to 2/2

2002-11-12 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:12 AM 11/12/02, Crystal Premo wrote: I have two measures of four quarter notes in 4/4 time, followed by two measures of four quarter notes in 2/2 time. If there are no tempo markings to the contrary, don't the quarter notes in the second two measures go twice as fast as the quarter notes in

RE: [Finale] 4/4 to 2/2

2002-11-12 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:58 AM 11/12/02, Tobias Giesen wrote: Oh yes there is. Unless specified otherwise, the duration of any particular note value remains constant. Time signature changes have no effect whatsoever on the duration of notes. Time signatures only group the notes together, but a different grouping

Re: [Finale] 4/4 to 2/2

2002-11-12 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:49 PM 11/12/02, Crystal Premo wrote: I was taught that unless it is marked otherwise, changing the time signature from 4/4 to 2/2 cuts time in half, making the quarter notes go twice as fast. Finale does not play it back this way, though, so my guess is that the real convention is that if

Re: [Finale] 4/4 to 2/2

2002-11-12 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:52 PM 11/12/02, Crystal Premo wrote: It seems more logical that you would put h=q, to indicate that in the new time signature, the half note now has the duration of a quarter note. Oh boy -- now you've done it! This is an entirely different argument. I think that what you suggest is more

Re: [Finale] Meters - I'm stumped

2002-11-21 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:10 PM 11/21/02, Richard Yates wrote: This one has me stumped. What beat stays constant in this example: Just looking at these two measures, my first guess would be that the dotted quarter in the 6/8 equals the quarter in the 2/4. Except there's that q=54 marking, which would imply that

Re: [Finale] Requests

2002-12-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:20 PM 12/10/02, Patsy Moore wrote: Finale Serial number: WFNA 108355 registered to K. C. Moore. Version WinFin 2000c. Might be a good idea not to publish your serial number to the whole Finale list... g Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] 2003a fixes (from Readme file)

2002-12-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:05 PM 12/11/02, Andrew Stiller wrote: Measure Tool * In the Measure Attributes dialog box, double-clicking on a barline selection no longer dismisses the dialog box. Hey! I *loved* that feature! Why in the world are they dropping it?? Yeah, I wondered the same thing myself. I didn't know

RE: [Finale] 2003a fixes (from Readme file)

2002-12-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:21 PM 12/11/02, Stokes, Randy wrote: // 9/24/2002 RES (#927132): Two clicks on a button in multimeasure // mode makes that button ambiguous. But BN_DOUBLECLICKED // will be preceeded by BN_CLICKED, so therefore BN_DOUBLECLICKED // makes the button ambiguous! I'll grant you all of that. But

Re: [Finale] 2003a fixes (from Readme file)

2002-12-12 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:34 PM 12/12/02, Matthew Hindson wrote: Perhaps it's time that Finale started to implement triple-clicks in places? Pagemaker is one app that does this, albeit on a much more limited scale (to select an entire paragraph). Maybe triple-clicking on a barline, or on an expression, or an

Re: [Finale] Selecting handles of artics and expressions

2002-12-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:49 PM 12/15/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Articulation Tool: Is there a keyboard shortcut for selecting the handle of an articulation after you've already clicked on the note to which it is attached? I dislike having to click on a note, then click on the handle of the articulation when I want

RE: [Finale] Selecting handles of artics and expressions

2002-12-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:56 PM 12/17/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, the latter only seems to work for note-attached expressions. Well, you did ask about note-attached expressions. Also, measure-attached expressions are, by definition, attached to measures, not notes. If you look at the Expression Assignment

Re: [Finale] Galloping Expression

2002-12-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:58 PM 12/17/2002, Richard Yates wrote: Can someone confirm the buggy behavior in a small FinWin2003a file? Confirmed. Very weird. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Coupla quick ones!

2002-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:54 PM 12/18/2002, helgesen wrote: Situation 1: Horns, 4 measures rest either side of a rehearsal mark. Extract parts produces an 8 measure multi rest, with no reh'l mark. OK it's easily fixable- (Break multi rest- create 2x4 multi rests either side of reh'l mark). But surely theres a way of

Re: [Finale] FinMac2K3 setup wizard

2002-12-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:25 AM 12/29/02, David Froom wrote: Does anyone know how to get the setup wizard to conform to settings in the default file? I have my own particular preferences for measure numbers, fonts for articulations, tuplets, etc, that are not part of the saved preferences. I have set up a default

[Finale] 1x only

2002-12-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, I'm doing an arrangement where the trumpet has a solo the first time through a section, and the flute has a solo the second time. Both lines appear in the score, with 1x only and 2x only as appropriate. So everything looks fine in score and parts. My question is whether there is a way

Re: [Finale] 1x only

2002-12-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:39 PM 12/29/02, Scott Jones wrote: I just discovered you can assign a function attached to the 1st or 2nd time marking via the EXPRESSION TOOL and have the velocity set to ZERO and tell it which pass to play at that setting. Yes, that's close to what I need -- I can make that work. Thanks

[Finale] Ties in first ending

2002-12-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, I have a note at the end of a first ending that ties back to the note at the beginning of the repeat. Of course, if I enter this as a tie, Finale ties the note to the next note -- that is, to the first note of the second ending, which is wrong. I'm guessing that the preferred

Re: [Finale] Forza?

2002-12-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:44 PM 12/30/02, d. collins wrote: Does anyone have any news about Jari and his Forza plugins? The last version expired at Xmas... I think he must be on vacation -- I emailed him about the expired versions and have not heard back. I'm sure he'll update them as soon as he can. Aaron.

Re: SV: [Finale] Two monitors and Finale

2003-01-01 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:38 PM 01/01/03, Stig Christensen wrote: Could you please be a little more specific about this point? Is it possible to open the same doc twice to have a scroll view on monitor 1 and a page view on monitor 2? Sure -- you can do this even with one monitor. Just choose Window | New Window,

Re: [Finale] fermata on rests

2003-01-05 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:33 PM 01/03/03, Stig Christensen wrote: I want to place a fermata in an empty measure in a score. First I have to create at rest in the measure, then I insert a fermata with the Articulation tool in every single measure, because I can t use the drag + shortcut method! After inserting

[Finale] Full staff names in later systems

2003-01-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, I've got a score that starts out with just piano, and the full orchestra enters some 30 bars later. So the first page of my (optimized) score just has piano showing, and the second page has the other instruments entering. (Yes, I know it's customary to leave the first system

[Finale] Expression bug?

2003-01-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
I would appreciate help in confirming this bug in FinWin2003a: 1. Open a score originally created in FinWin2003 (*not* a). 2. Add a rehearsal letter to the score in some place where at least one part has a measure or more of rest on either side. Assign this rehearsal letter to a staff list

Re: [Finale] Changes in Finale 2003 behaviour

2003-01-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:18 AM 1/18/2003, Colin Broom wrote: 1. In the measure tool, if in Finale 2002 I wanted to change the style of barline, I could while in the measure attributes dialog box double-click on the type of bar I wanted and it would select that bar and immiediately exit the dialog box. Now in

Re: [Finale] Horn parts

2003-01-24 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:53 PM 1/24/2003, dumusic wrote: My understanding is that all parts written in the bass clef are written at concert pitch, contra bassoons and string contrabasses excepted, which both transpose down an octave. Some where (maybe in Walter Piston's Orchestration) is a discussion about horn

Re: [Finale] OT Autocad to PDF

2003-01-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:02 AM 01/30/03, George Ports wrote: I have Autocad 14 and Quark 4 and am using win98se. Is there a way to save an Autocad file to a .PDF file? You can print from almost any application to PDF if you have the correct software. Most PDF creation software takes the form of (or at least

Re: [Finale] paper (was Selling music on line)

2003-02-09 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:43 AM 02/09/03, Robert Patterson wrote: When this topic came around previously, someone explained the difference between offset paper lb ratings (which tend to go 20-40-60-80) and linen paper lb ratings (which tend to go 24-28). If anyone still has it, I'd like to see it again. Generally,

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Selection

2003-02-10 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:36 PM 02/10/03, Pierre Bailleul wrote: What's the way to export just a graphic selection in Finale to pdf ? You don't actually *export* as PDF -- you print to a PDF with Acrobat Distiller or some other print driver, just as you would from any application. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] harp pedal order

2003-02-12 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:58 PM 02/12/03, Mr. Liudas Motekaitis wrote: But all of the harp sheet music that I have (I have three pieces) have indications either like: BCD | EFGA or EFGA BCD (this last one has the bracket on the left. Indeed, even the Finale manual has harp indications this second way. In the

Re: [Finale] optimimize

2003-02-25 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:28 PM 2/25/2003, Bob Florence wrote: I am working on a piano part. I want to optimize the whole part. This has never been a problem but now it won't work.  What isn't working? Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Finale scan question

2003-03-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:00 PM 3/13/2003, Douglas Dickson wrote: I own many of the CD-ROMs from CD Sheet Music/ Theodore Presser. The art songs are published only in the original keys. Is there some way of scanning and importing directly from the PDF files of the CD-ROM?  You could theoretically open up the PDF,

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