Dear Darcy,
As usual, you respond to these pleas with useful information. I'd call you and
Christopher (and a few others) "my saviors", but that starts to sound
quasi-religious and overly emotional. Nevertheless, I am grateful for the time
you take to help make things clear. It is obvious that you take some trouble
to help solve these problems.
First: the Alternate Notation problem is solved. Choosing the music characters
did the trick. I had not encountered that situation in earlier upgrades so
didn't know where to look for that.
I have now done considerable work in converting Finale's Jazz Band Template
(created with the Wizard) and am reluctant to abandon it. Is there any reason
why I couldn't save a document style from this template when I have finished
the work on it?
One more problem: I have imported custom expressions, articulations and staff
styles - all successfully, but when I try to import my carefully created smart
shape library (full of Bill's things), the file manager reports an error and it
doesn't import. Ideas on that one?
The usual thanks,
Chuck
On Oct 8, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
>
> Rather than make new templates, you should make yourself a brand-new Document
> Style. You can then select that style when creating new documents via the
> Setup Wizard. Otherwise, you will not get many of the new benefits of the
> Score Manager system. Having a bunch of templates for various
> instrumentations is not really the best way to go -- the Document Style
> allows you to use a single document as the basis for everything you write,
> regardless of instrumentation. If there's an ensemble that you use
> frequently, instead of making a template for it, you can just save it in the
> Setup Wizard. Check the documentation on Document Styles to learn how to do
> this.
>
> You can (and should) base your new Document Style on a copy of the Finale
> 2012 default document -- you'll need to make a lot of adjustments, so the
> best thing to do is to open Finale 2011 and Finale 2012, and compare each
> section of the Document Options for your old template in Finale 2011
> side-by-side with the corresponding section in Finale 2012. Then type in all
> of the necessary changes to the Document Settings in your clean Finale 2012
> file, which will be the basis for your Document Style. Of course, as you know
> you'll also need to import any custom articulation, expression, and chord
> libraries (deleting the existing items first), adjust your Smart Shape
> placement settings, re-create any custom Smart Shapes and Staff Styles, set
> up all your metatools, etc. This is all very tedious but if you use Document
> Styles then you only have to do it once (as opposed to many times for many
> different templates) -- and it is MUCH safer and more reliable to start with
> a clean Finale 2012 file than it is to import an existing template from an
> earlier version of Finale.
>
> As for the slash characters, that's actually a two-step process. First, in
> Document Options -> Fonts, choose "Alternate Notation" from the "Notation"
> pull-down menu, then select "ChordSym" (24 point). Then, in Document Options
> -> Alternate Notation -> Music Characters, for each item ("Large Slash,"
> "Small Slash," etc) click "Select" and choose the appropriate character from
> the ChordSym font set.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - DJA
> -----
> WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org
>
>
>
> On 8 Oct 2011, at 2:53 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> This is just the first of what will probably be a number of questions
>> regarding moving to 2012.
>>
>> I am making new templates (as recommended), rather than importing old ones -
>> partly because I believe that should simplify loading instruments (perhaps
>> they will turn out to have been pre-loaded). Bill Duncan fonts appear
>> correctly in the chord library, where I have transferred my suffixes from
>> earlier versions, but not in alternate notation. The slashes (one of the
>> most attractive features of Bill's fonts) do not. I haven't tried the
>> rhythmic notation yet, but I have my doubts, as this is also an "Alternate
>> Notation" font.
>>
>> Ideas, anyone?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Chuck
>>
>>
>> Chuck Israels
>> 1310 NW Naito Parkway #807
>> Portland, OR 97209-316
>>
>> land line: (971) 255-1167
>> cell phone: (360) 201-3434
>>
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