My ignorance may be unique for this fine list, but I have to admit to it. I gratefully downloaded this plug-in. Read and followed the instructions on installing it. And ran into a problem which to me is pure voodoo.
From the Program options I found the location of the Plug-ins folder. Pressed alt and found Bibliotek in the Gå menu (I am on the Danish version of Lion - might be Library in the Go to menu). Found my way to the Finale 2012 folder, which has a subset of the subfolders visible in the Choose a Folder window in the program options. But only a subset. And no Plug-ins folder. How to make the invisible folders visible within their parent Finale 2012 folder? Is the reason that these missing folders don’t really exist? That they only are pre-made options in the Choose a Folder window, so that I have to create the Plug-ins folder myself? Klaus >________________________________ >From: Jari Williamsson <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 9:51 PM >Subject: [Finale] New 2012 plug-in: JW Instrument Change > >Hello! > >A new plug-in is now available for download from the Finale Tips site. >It's called "JW Instrument Change" and works only with Finale 2012 and >later versions. > >The plug-in maintains text instructions (as text expressions) at Finale >2012 Instrument Changes for the selected region. The positioning and >look of the expressions are handled by the chosen category, and the >plug-in is smart enough to move/remove instructions if the instrument >changes moves/disappears. Generally, it should be safe to apply this >plug-in on the whole document to keep the instrument changes visually >updated. > >The plug-in automatically sets the "break multi-measure rest" option in >the expressions. Let me know if you need to be able to set this optionally. > >TIP: If you just want to mark the instruments in the document, but not >print the changes - create a category that uses the hidden text style >and use that with the plug-in. > >The plug-in supports instrument names that use Unicode characters. > >A currently known limitation is changes for multi-staff instruments >(piano to celeste for example), where all staves currently get >expressions. I hope to soon fix this in an update. > >Download from the "Plug-ins" subsection at the Finale tips site: >www.finaletips.nu > > >Best regards, > >Jari Williamsson > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
