Hi John, Remember, again, that MakeMusic does not officially monitor this list. If you are going to have any success, you need to get directly in touch with the people in their development team.
Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 30 Jul 2010, at 1:34 PM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In a message dated 7/30/2010 10:01:07 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:26:01 -0400 > From: Darcy James Argue <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: Finale Unicode support > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi John, > > You need to understand the facts on the ground here. MakeMusic has had a > yearly release schedule since 1996. Finale 2011 was just released. It does > not support Unicode. The next major release will be Finale 2012, which will > most likely be released 11 months from now. In all likelihood, that is the > earliest that a major new feature like Unicode support could conceivably be > introduced. > > Cheers, > > - DJA > > > > Thanks, Darcy. I do understand, and from everything I've been told, such a > changeover is a big deal. Hopefully they'll be able to pull it off by the > next release, which would be in time for us to accommodate Finale as an > option for users of our forthcoming Understanding Tonal Music. And now that > ChordSymbol is being used in developing three other major college music > theory > textbooks, such an update to Unicode would be very much in MakeMusic's > interest. > > Let me reiterate too that although MakeMusic has thus far basically ignored > me, accommodating the functionality of our premium-quality Unicode chord > symbol fonts in their Unicode implementation of chord symbol entry would > give Finale a distinct advantage over Sibelius. This will be all the more > true > once we complete the first Unicode "handwritten" chord symbol font for > jazz, which we might call JazzHand or something like that, sometime this > fall. > > Cheers, jrc > > Dr. John R. Clevenger, Manager > The Virtual Conservatory > 50 S. Patterson Ave., #203 > Santa Barbara, CA 93111 > Phone and fax: (805) 964-7988 (for fax, ignore answering machine) > Email: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > Web site: _www.virtualconservatory.com_ > (http://www.virtualconservatory.com/) > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
