Thanks, Robert! I will try all of those things. On Sep 2, 2017 7:40 PM, "Robert Patterson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> It sounds to me like there are several things going on here. The first and > most important is that you may have file corruption. My suggestion is to > open a fresh new file, perhaps a "document without libraries" and use my > Settings Scrapbook plugin to copy the File Header from the fresh file to > your file. You can then reenter your data for those fields. If this doesn't > work, I would love to get a copy of the problematic file, because I have > made some effort with Settings Scrapbook to have it resolve issues like > this. > > Beyond this, Makemusic introduced a behavior that imho is a terrible design > mistake and regression. They allow you to edit the underlying text insert > inside title headers. This presents two challeges. The first is that you > must constantly be aware of whether you are enter text with a thin cursor > or thick cursor. The second is, there are cases where you are screwed no > matter what you do. Frequently I have to entirely delete titles and start > all over. > > Finally, the menu items of which you speak are now on the File Info tab of > the Score Manager. > > > > On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Raymond Horton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > This problem gets weirder and weirder. Between the title, subtitle, and > > composer, one will substitute for the other when I don't want it. And > just > > now, when I attempted to insert a part/Score same text insert on a title > > page of the score, I get the title! And it's not the current title, > either, > > it's the title of the original old file that I opened to arrange for a > new > > group. (This reminds me. Didn't we used to have, under the file menu, a > > place to define the title and other things about the file?) Again, thanks > > for any help offered. > > > > On Sep 2, 2017 6:34 PM, "Raymond Horton" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Yes, I already tried that some, and it doesn't seem to help. Thanks! > > > > > > On Sep 2, 2017 5:08 PM, "David H. Bailey" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > >> On 9/2/2017 4:53 PM, Raymond Horton wrote: > > >> > > >>> This is happened two or three times, and it is quite frustrating for > > me. > > >>> I > > >>> start editing an old file in Finale Windows 25, and when I try to > edit > > >>> the > > >>> title or the composer, I find that they are linked and anything I put > > in > > >>> one field automatically turns up in the other. Does anybody know how > to > > >>> turn this off? Thanks for any help! > > >>> > > >> > > >> I don't know how to turn it off, but one place to look would be the > > >> Text/Inserts dialog. Perhaps data got corrupted and both of those > text > > >> items have been interpreted as being the same thing, either title or > > >> composer. You may need to delete one and recreate it so the other one > > >> isn't of the same type of insert. > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> ***** > > >> David H. Bailey > > >> [email protected] > > >> http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com > > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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]
