Re: [Finale] To the list owner...

2002-04-16 Thread David W. Fenton
to the list and with a separate copy to the sender. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Finale] lost reply to again

2002-04-17 Thread David W. Fenton
that the list errors should now go to that address instead. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] new computer...

2002-04-20 Thread David W. Fenton
be built around system limitations that no longer apply. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2002-04-22 Thread David W. Fenton
that (as I don't; what was wrong with Documents as a folder name:?), or how you move your default program installation folder to a different volume. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http

Re: [Finale] OT: Reinstalling Netscape

2002-04-22 Thread David W. Fenton
problem is a corrupt profile, upgrading your browser is simply going to inherit the corruption, not remove it. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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

2002-04-23 Thread David W. Fenton
, controlled by any OS or user environment setting. I suspect that things are different in OS X in terms of configurability. If they are not, then it is simply poor system design. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates

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

2002-04-23 Thread David W. Fenton
on the Digest-member Options screen) -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu

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

2002-04-25 Thread David W. Fenton
should include all fonts in PostScript and EPS files generated by her applications even if she doesn't have a PostScript printer. That's a huge problem with OSes from Redmond WA. It's not a problem with MacOS. I knew that the discussion would descend into platform bashing. -- David W. Fenton

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

2002-04-25 Thread David W. Fenton
On 25 Apr 2002, at 23:47, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 25.04.2002 22:51 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote PS is simply irrelevant to me and certainly to the vast majority of Windows users. Well, it is certainly not irrelevant if you ever have to give something to a professional printing

Re: Henle and Finale (was: Re: [Finale] Competition anyone?)

2002-04-29 Thread David W. Fenton
, Johannes, this was what got you in trouble with your Henle template, that they admit certain things in private and that they do not speak of in public. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net

Re: Henle and Finale (was: Re: [Finale] Competition anyone?)

2002-04-29 Thread David W. Fenton
On 29 Apr 2002, at 22:02, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 29.04.2002 19:59 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote On 29 Apr 2002, at 18:26, Jari Williamsson wrote: Johannes Gebauer writes: Whether those parts are or will ever be available I have no idea. The score certainly will be. I did

RE: [Finale] To Tobias

2002-05-03 Thread David W. Fenton
ISP should contact to get removed from the blacklist. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Finale] Re: Root movement

2002-06-01 Thread David W. Fenton
. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Finale 2003 PC/Finale 2002 Mac can't trade files...

2002-06-16 Thread David W. Fenton
. And it wouldn't surprise me if it didn't take a major revision of the file format to make it possible (if the file format isn't designed for extensions in the first place, it's usually very hard to do this kind of thing). -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net

Re: [Finale] Finale 2003 PC/Finale 2002 Mac can't trade files...

2002-06-16 Thread David W. Fenton
really offer not worthwhile new features that justify the upgrade. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] Finale 2003 PC/Finale 2002 Mac can't trade files...

2002-06-16 Thread David W. Fenton
for developers and those not using SQL Server were caused by the architectural changes necessitated by the goal of making Access a better SQL Server client (specifically, decoupling Access the application builder from its native database engine, Jet). -- David W. Fenton

Re: [Finale] How or where do you purchase Finale?

2002-06-20 Thread David W. Fenton
it all the time, but people who badmouth Win95 really don't know what they are talking about. Properly cared for, it runs like a champ. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

Re: [Finale] How or where do you purchase Finale?

2002-06-22 Thread David W. Fenton
On 21 Jun 2002, at 10:06, Jari Williamsson wrote: David W. Fenton writes: I really do like Win2K, so I'll be happy to use it all the time, but people who badmouth Win95 really don't know what they are talking about. * Compiling big projects on Borland C++ Builder can easily freeze

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

2002-06-22 Thread David W. Fenton
the old Windows directory and then run all the applications in turn to see which ones need to be reinstalled. The programs you don't use you'll never need to install, or you can wait until you need them to install them. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton

Re: [Finale] Windows 95 crashing problems.

2002-06-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 Jun 2002, at 6:43, Michael Edwards wrote: [David W. Fenton:] As to Win95 crashing, well, what do you mean? Well, different things on different occasions. Sometimes WordPad or Outlook Express or (most of all) Internet Explorer crashes (illegal operation message). Internet

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

2002-06-23 Thread David W. Fenton
of the same style. Of course, all of his contemporaries had that advantage, too, and Mozart was still as good a composer as a child as most adults, and I need not say more about his adult compositions. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton

Re: [Finale] TAN: Public support for the arts

2002-06-24 Thread David W. Fenton
On 24 Jun 2002, at 14:47, Stokes, Randy wrote: The arguments usually presented for government support of the arts can just as well be applied to government support of religion. Er, aside from some minor little details in the US Constitution, I guess you're right. -- David W. Fenton

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

2002-06-26 Thread David W. Fenton
W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] reply to (was OT LONG: help with adult student)

2002-06-26 Thread David W. Fenton
be *administered* via the web, but there's nothing whatsoever about its functions and output that is biased towards people who read email with browser-based clients. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http

Re: [Finale] 3 against 4 TAN

2002-06-30 Thread David W. Fenton
that might help? I was taught pass the golden butter. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Finale] 3 against 4 TAN

2002-06-30 Thread David W. Fenton
On 30 Jun 2002, at 21:37, Darcy James Argue wrote: On Sunday, June 30, 2002, at 09:18 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 1 Jul 2002, at 1:57, John Bell wrote: My son is learning a piano piece in which he is experiencing some difficulty with a passage that has 3 in RH against 4 in LH. His

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-02 Thread David W. Fenton
On 27 Jun 2002, at 13:12, Aaron Sherber wrote: 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

Re: [Finale] OT: To the Windows Experts

2002-07-02 Thread David W. Fenton
of installations of Word97 on Win2K. If you run as an administrative user, though, it won't be a problem for Word97. But you will certainly be opening yourself up to a whole host of other problems. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-02 Thread David W. Fenton
On 2 Jul 2002, at 21:54, David W. Fenton wrote: [a very snippy response that he never should have posted] I don't know how that message got recycled again, but it was actually from June 27th, and I thought it was a new response. Pardon me for that -- I sent it before I realized what was going

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Jul 2002, at 12:48, Rocky Road wrote: And so it came to pass that David W. Fenton spake: 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

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-04 Thread David W. Fenton
know the Finale PS fonts are installed on this computer. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Jul 2002, at 13:04, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 12:10 PM 7/4/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: the PostScript that Finale produces being non-portable unless you do special tweaks. I assumed that the problems with the PS export would also be present in the EPS production (perhaps

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-04 Thread David W. Fenton
On 4 Jul 2002, at 14:32, Aaron Sherber wrote: 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

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread David W. Fenton
was just fine and dandy. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Jul 2002, at 4:32, Philip Aker wrote: On Thursday, July 4, 2002, at 10:03 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: [...] Well, PDF requires the purchase of something to produce the PDF files. You might want to check out GhostScript or possibly GhostView if it is available for Windows. Works

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread David W. Fenton
that isn't half bad, actually. The information about handling the full-page EPS files in the layout program is crucial -- it was something I didn't know (though it's logical that it would work that way). Thanks so much for your post. -- David W. Fenton |http

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Jul 2002, at 12:11, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: At 11:50 AM -0400 7/05/02, David W. Fenton wrote: I'm having problems with the basic music fonts not printing out. The problem is clearly that the fonts are *not* being saved in the EPS file, because when I SAVE AS EPS, the fonts get

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread David W. Fenton
much! -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Jul 2002, at 18:20, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 05.07.2002 17:50 Uhr, David W. Fenton wrote I'm having problems with the basic music fonts not printing out. The problem is clearly that the fonts are *not* being saved in the EPS file, because when I SAVE AS EPS, the fonts get

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

2002-07-09 Thread David W. Fenton
sophistication of Finale vs. Sibelius. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu

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

2002-07-09 Thread David W. Fenton
default positioning control in recent versions of Finale?). -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL

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

2002-07-09 Thread David W. Fenton
On 9 Jul 2002, at 14:55, Robert Patterson wrote: David W. Fenton wrote But who would waste a metatool on pizzicato/arco, when you'd need 1 pizz and an arco for each of the string patches you had in use (assuming they aren't all orchestral)? Me, for one. As I said, I don't worry too

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

2002-07-09 Thread David W. Fenton
*must* get better or Finale will lose a lot of the people who don't need the massive flexibility that Finale offers. Indeed, from what I've seen about Sibelius in its present form, if I were starting my project now, it would probably have been the best choice. -- David W. Fenton

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

2002-07-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 9 Jul 2002, at 23:10, Philip Aker wrote: On Tuesday, July 9, 2002, at 05:08 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: And in the expression list, there's no way to tell the difference between arco (violin), arco (viola), arco (cello) and arco (bass). That is only true in prehistoric versions

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

2002-07-10 Thread David W. Fenton
benefit from. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Re: The S word again

2002-07-10 Thread David W. Fenton
a crescendo should intuitively have an effect on playback, by default. Yes, the effect should be highly configurable for the user interested in tweaking playback. But, nonetheless, such clear visual data ought to be interpreted during the playback. -- David W. Fenton

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

2002-07-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 9 Jul 2002, at 20:50, Robert Patterson wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: quadrupling the number of metatool keys Gracious. I just can't let this go by. Occasionally I have gone back to Fin97 to avoid re-editing an old doc. It is the SLAG MINES! (Single undo, lotsa bugs that have since

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

2002-07-11 Thread David W. Fenton
W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] PDF from Mac OSX

2002-07-12 Thread David W. Fenton
treated Windows NT users. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman

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

2002-07-12 Thread David W. Fenton
of objections are ridiculous, and look like pouncing to me, even if made in the spirit of open discussion to hash out what's valuable and what's not. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net

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

2002-07-12 Thread David W. Fenton
that for certain. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Finale] PDF from Mac OSX

2002-07-12 Thread David W. Fenton
flawlessly in Win95). MS no longer promises compatibility with older programs, but so far, I have no reports of problems from any of my clients who have a need to run the older programs. Microsoft doesn't get the credit they deserve for this. -- David W. Fenton

Re: [Finale] PDF from Mac OSX

2002-07-12 Thread David W. Fenton
On 12 Jul 2002, at 7:16, Philip Aker wrote: On Friday, July 12, 2002, at 06:15 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: WinXP is not a new API, nor a completely new OS architecture. It is a minor upgrade to Windows 2000, a significant upgrade to NT 4. If you read my reply to Jari Williamsson

Re: [Finale] Metatools/type in score (long)

2002-07-13 Thread David W. Fenton
On 12 Jul 2002, at 13:38, Mark D. Lew wrote: At 9:46 AM 07/12/02, David W. Fenton wrote: [...] I also think the display only attribute should be one of things you could override on individual expressions. I still think an expression should be definable as display only, but it would be nice

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-13 Thread David W. Fenton
) and of all of his work in tonal harmony. He was one of the finest theorists of tonal harmony there ever was, and he had an unequalled grasp of the subtleties of harmony and voice leading. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-13 Thread David W. Fenton
clue what you mean here. For it to be useful to Coda, you have to give them examples of which prompts you consider unnecessary and why they are unnecessary. And one man's unnecessary is another man's essential. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-13 Thread David W. Fenton
. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Wish List

2002-07-13 Thread David W. Fenton
for Finale. However, I see no utility in this whatsoever, to be frank. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Jul 2002, at 3:37, Jón Kristinn Cortez wrote: On 14.7.2002 03:12, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Jul 2002, at 10:58, Andrew Stiller wrote: Meanwhile, here are my requests: --Eliminate unnecessary prompts to save. This is the kind of request that makes

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 13 Jul 2002, at 23:32, Don Hart wrote: on 7/13/02 10:12 PM, David W. Fenton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --Eliminate unnecessary prompts to save. This is the kind of request that makes computer programmers scream. How the hell could Coda know what you consider to be unnecessary

Re: [Finale] PDF from Mac OSX

2002-07-14 Thread David W. Fenton
a working version of Finale. I do not know the technical details there, but Coda surely does, and if they decided that they couldn't do in the fashion that you think they should have, well, it's their decision and not yours. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net

Re: [Finale] Metatools/type in score (long)

2002-07-15 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Jul 2002, at 22:24, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 06:59 PM 7/14/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: The GM specification has patch 46 for pizzicato strings. I see nothing defective or inadequate in the default interpretation for typing pizz into the scoring being a switch to that patch

Re: [Finale] Finale wish list

2002-07-15 Thread David W. Fenton
, there is little to say about this from your point of view. I assure you it does not work as it should. My only issue here is bug reporting. A proper description of the bug would have made all my posts on the subject unnecessary. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI - maybe too long

2002-07-17 Thread David W. Fenton
as it is of lowly Finale. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-17 Thread David W. Fenton
in another discussion. Isn't it the case that Ctrl + the accidental does this already? I've used that forever, and it works fine so far as I can see. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net

Re: [Finale] My Own Wishlist to Coda (Mac, quite long)

2002-07-17 Thread David W. Fenton
adding a few bits to store the shift state, then obviously it would work, so I assume that's what you mean. But ASCII codes it ain't. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI

2002-07-17 Thread David W. Fenton
score types. Notation is a tool, a tool for memory, a tool for revealing relationships, a tool for conveying a musical conception (both to other people and to the original composer!). Given that we are all individuals, we are all likely to use it differently. -- David W. Fenton

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI

2002-07-17 Thread David W. Fenton
that if some attention is not paid to the issue soon, Finale will get a reputation as being hard to learn/use. Oops! Too late! -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI - maybe too long

2002-07-17 Thread David W. Fenton
, as opposed to the hundreds of adjustments a live performer will make in each moment of sound. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

Re: [Finale] TAN: Ascii codes

2002-07-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Jul 2002, at 13:33, Robert Patterson wrote: On Wed, 17 July 2002, David W. Fenton wrote If it's actually the ASCII code, then it wouldn't be possible. Eh? 'A' and 'a' and ctrl-a all have different, well-defined ascii codes between 0 and 127. This is computer text 101. No need

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI

2002-07-18 Thread David W. Fenton
read, has advocated anything of the sort. What set you off was all in the baggage you brought to the discussion. -- David W. Fenton |http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates |http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

Re: [Finale] TAN: Ascii codes

2002-07-18 Thread David W. Fenton
On 18 Jul 2002, at 0:13, Philip Aker wrote: On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 06:33 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Please, give me a reference somewhere on the web for the ASCII codes for Ctrl-a-z and Ctrl-A-Z. Ctrl-0-9 is optional. And I mean *ASCII* codes, not ANSI or keyboard scan

Re: [Finale] TAN: Ascii codes

2002-07-18 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Jul 2002, at 18:50, Robert Patterson wrote: On Wed, 17 July 2002, David W. Fenton wrote Ctrl-a has an ASCII code? What exactly is its ASCII code? I refuse to bore the list with further discussion of ascii codes. My recollection is that all the ctrl-letter combos have well-defined

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI

2002-07-18 Thread David W. Fenton
On 18 Jul 2002, at 19:34, Doug Auwarter wrote: on 7/18/02 11:19 AM, David W. Fenton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 Jul 2002, at 1:08, Harold Steinhardt wrote: What set me off, was my perceived insistence of others who feel, in the composing process, that a complete midi playback

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 16 Sep 2002 at 23:32, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: So, I copied and pasted a large chunk of music with lyrics from the beginning of a piece to the end, because the music returns with different lyrics. But now when I change the lyrics at the end, it changes them

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Sep 2002 at 17:24, David W. Fenton wrote: On 17 Sep 2002 at 17:38, Raimund Lintzen wrote: So why don't you copy your music+lyrics into a new (empty) file - then copy it again back to your first file. This procedure will make your lyrics be in a new verse. It also has a lot

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Sep 2002 at 17:44, David W. Fenton wrote: Having decided that pasting from a different file is too much work, I decided to try copying without the lyrics. The result, after many false starts where it didn't work at all, I see the lyrics being copied *anyway*, even though

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-17 Thread David W. Fenton
with no acceptable alternative for doing otherwise, it boggles the mind. I guess I just can't wrap my mind around the idea that something so fundamental should be so poorly implemented in such a mature product. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton

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

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

2002-09-18 Thread David W. Fenton
). Mozilla allows bookmark groups, and when I run out of time I often bookmark a group of open tabs so I can return to them at a later time. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-18 Thread David W. Fenton
, and that once it's been done it is not fully reversible. Those are all indications of an ill-thought-out UI and bugs in the implementation. A user interface that allows changes to be made to underlying data but does not allow those changes to be reversed is a UI that is broken. -- David W. Fenton

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 18 Sep 2002 at 7:02, Robert Patterson wrote: 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

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-19 Thread David W. Fenton
is a desirable state. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 18 Sep 2002 at 17:08, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: At 9:33 AM -0400 9/18/02, David W. Fenton wrote: Oh, bollocks. This is an instance where Finale is fundamentally broken. The default behavior of the copy is one issue alone, an ill- chosen default with no sensible alternative

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-19 Thread David W. Fenton
At 9:33 AM 09/18/02, David W. Fenton wrote: However correct you may be as the voice of experience, that is the most ludicrous advice I've ever heard. [...] That's a really serious indictment of the stability of the Finale file format. First of all, David, welcome to the club. Those

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-19 Thread David W. Fenton
does happen to allow that, yes, but it also allows the cascade deletion without any warning. And that's the fundamental problem -- Finale's UI is not making clear the consequence of edits. Nor does it represent in any way how the underlying data stream is being used. -- David W. Fenton

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-19 Thread David W. Fenton
of lyric that is essentially a text expression. When copying a block of music, appending copies of the source lyrics to the end of the existing lyrics for the relevant verses strikes me as a completely viable option, one that makes musical and UI sense. -- David W. Fenton

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-19 Thread David W. Fenton
anything? Yes. 0. Lyrics in Finale are fundamentally broken. Use at your own risk. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Sep 2002 at 16:20, Thomas Schaller wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: Anyway, on to my solution: I took someone's advice to insert and symbols in the lyrics via TYPE IN SCORE so that I could find them in the EDIT LYRICS window. What I saw was a jumble of lyrics

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Sep 2002 at 17:10, Thomas Schaller wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: There is no option of an option. The other option would be text expressions, or else to glom on some new kind of lyric that is essentially a text expression. When copying a block of music, appending copies

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-19 Thread David W. Fenton
understand that your advice is good. But you have to recognize that there's something fundamentally broken in a program that requires you to jump through so many hoops to accomplish a very straightforward task. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Sep 2002 at 17:04, Mark D. Lew wrote: In various posts, David W. Fenton wrote: Historically speaking, yes. But before I upgraded to WinFin2003, [...] Oh, so you're in Fin 2003 now. Does that mean it has changed back?? In MacFin2002, if I use type-in-score to enter lyrics out

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-20 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Sep 2002 at 19:49, Mark D. Lew wrote: At 6:30 PM 09/19/02, David W. Fenton wrote: [] You're lapsing into Mac-speak -- I have no idea what you mean by OPTION-CLICK. I understand that it's one of the shift keys, but it is peculiar to the Mac, and I don't know what it maps to on Windows

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-20 Thread David W. Fenton
. That is, if I could never create problems that would require me to look in EDIT LYRICS, I'd be happy. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-20 Thread David W. Fenton
into problems there. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-20 Thread David W. Fenton
* of applicability. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-20 Thread David W. Fenton
entry. Spinner control. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-20 Thread David W. Fenton
if Finale used some system font for the brackets and anything inside the brackets. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-20 Thread David W. Fenton
IN SCORE would be greatly improved if there were greater transparency of word separators, for one, if it were better connected to the underlying text stream, and if the results of your edits to that text stream were made clear during the process. -- David W. Fenton

RE: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-20 Thread David W. Fenton
the original lyrics by editing the copy, I would have had *no* problems with TYPE IN SCORE, either. In other words, if the default behavior of the COPY had been more sensible, I never would have needed help. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David

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