Don, I'd also suggest that you try Jari Williamson's JWChange plugin. It does some tricks with the tuplets (I also used it in an old file to correct the tuplet positions)
Rafael J On 27 January 2015 at 13:45, Robert Patterson <rob...@robertgpatterson.com> wrote: > Don, > > It may just be that after several updates and upgrades, at least once a > year, there was about a three-year hiatus between 2.6.3 and the next > version which I believe was called 3.0. So we got to know 2.6.3 really > well. I'm pretty sure I did all my work for graduate school on it. And it > *was* stable. Much more stable than 3.0. > > I don't recall when note-attached slurs came in. It may not have been until > Fin97. Otherwise it was probably in an iteration of v3. > > BTW: If you want to use my plugins with Fin11, you need to continue to use > v3. Later versions do not run in any version before Fin12. > > Robert > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Don Hart <donhartmu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks Robert, > > > > That was the method I used to change the tuplet settings. I noticed that > > reset button but thought it would just zero-out the dialog settings. > That > > will help. > > > > It's time for me to upgrade to or buy your latest plugins--will check > that > > out. > > > > Were smart shapes introduced in v.2? The slurs in this score didn't > attach > > to notes--early behavior. Though I can't remember all the reasons why, I > > have a fondness for 2.6.3. I think a large part of it was stability. I > > distinctly remember losing a day's work after Finale crashed, even > though I > > had been meticulously saving my work all day long. I believe 2.6.3 fixed > > that behavior, but my habit of saving alternately to two external disks > > lingered on for a while. > > > > Thanks again, > > > > Don > > > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Robert Patterson < > > rob...@robertgpatterson.com> wrote: > > > > > Don, > > > > > > You should be able to return your tuplets to default settings en-masse > by > > > selecting a range then using Utilities->Change->Tuplets. If you hit the > > > Reset button at the bottom, it will fill in the default tuplet > settings. > > > > > > For some reason every version of Finale since the beginning has has > > forced > > > Tuplets to be tied to Notes in the Edit filter. This arbitrary > > restriction > > > was the original reason I created the first version of my Mass Copy > > plugin > > > (then called "Tuplet Copy" or some such). You can use Mass Copy to copy > > > tuplets and tuplet settings without copying the notes. > > > > > > I tried opening one of my files from the 90-91 era, and it does not > > report > > > the version. The suggests to me that it might be from before v2. > Ideally > > > your file would have been upgraded to 2.6.3 before being brought into > the > > > modern world, > > > > > > Robert > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Don Hart <donhartmu...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > > > > > Temporarily back in 2011, still on a mac. I'm resurrecting a very > old > > > > Finale file, c. '90 or '91. All is going fairly smoothly, but I > can't > > > seem > > > > to find a global way to clear the old positioning on the tuplets I've > > > > edited. So far, the only way to finalize the changes I've made > (i.e., > > > see > > > > the new positioning) seems to be to click the first note of each > > tuplet, > > > > click on its handle and hit clear. Anyone have a more efficient way > to > > > do > > > > this? > > > > > > > > And while we're on the subject, Tuplet Definitions is always grayed > in > > > the > > > > Edit Filter and can't be checked independently (a check mark appears > > when > > > > Notes and Rests is selected, but it's still grayed). Can those > > settings > > > > only be copied when attached to the notes they define? > > > > > > > > BTW, does anyone recall the current Finale version in late '90 or > early > > > > '91, or know where I can find a version history to help me determine > > > what I > > > > would have been using at that time? > > > > > > > > Thanks much, > > > > > > > > Don Hart > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Finale mailing list > > > > Finale@shsu.edu > > > > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > > > > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Finale mailing list > > > Finale@shsu.edu > > > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > > > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > Finale@shsu.edu > > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
