Gary at tech support asked to see my problem file and after looking at it
had this to say:
Dear Don,
Thanks for sending the file. The problem is with the Petrucci
font which used to be Finale's default music font. If you change the
Default Music Font to Maestro or Engraver the accidentals will nudge
correctly albeit with a little stubbornness that isn't present in a new
document created in Finale 2005. So, yes, the old Template is the issue
and, as you now know, if you wish to keep the file in Petrucci this
issue will remain.
Please let me know if I can be of further help.
Thanks,
Gary
Tech Support
MakeMusic!, Inc.
Coda Music Technologies
Well, I'm not particularly attached to Petrucci so that's an easy fix. I
didn't realize Petrucci carried that sort of baggage or I would have moved
away from it exclusively a long time ago.
David, maybe some of your problems are related as well, though I would
expect that converting files created in older versions is more problematic
than nursing along a template through the years.
Don Hart
on 7/20/05 3:11 PM, David W. Fenton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 20 Jul 2005 at 14:59, Don Hart wrote:
>
>> I just heard back from tech support on this and Gary said he couldn't
>> recreate my problem. The file I was working in originated in a template put
>> together a long time ago, so I made a new file with the set up wizard to
>> experiment with. The behavior I reported was not present in the new file.
>>
>> This is the first noticeable problem (assuming this *is* the problem) that
>> I've experienced using one of my old templates. One beta tester I know
>> swears by making a new basic template for every upgrade (not fixits). How
>> often do you folks on this list redo your own templates? Do any of you
>> import any existing libraries into the new template? Any other dos, don'ts,
>> or routines?
>
> That's all well and good, but how do you convert older files into the
> new version? Copy the data into a new template? We all know how well
> *that* works -- *NOT*.
>
> This is an area in which Finale is very, very bad, and that seems to
> me to have lots of bugs and inconsistencies. I encounter them
> constantly, simply because I've been working on some of my files
> since 1991.
>
> Conversion to the new version clearly does *not* convert everything.
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