Don, Your original question prompted me to revive my efforts with Sheepshaver (which got an update only a year ago). Good news! I can now run all the old Classic Finale versions, so if you want to send me your file I might be able to actually open it with a version that is contemporaneous.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Rafael Leonardo Junchaya < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected] > > > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 < > > > [email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > > > 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 > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Finale mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Finale mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > > > [email protected] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
