[Finale] NumLock quietly eliminated on Mac portables
Hi Tobias (and Finale list -- I've CC'd them too), Today I was teaching a lesson to a Finale student, trying to encourage him to purchase TGTools by demonstrating the utility of the Align-Move hotkeys, but for some reason they would not work on his machine (a recent-model MacBook Pro). I realized that his keyboard lacked the "NumLock" option historically found on Mac Portables -- so there is no way of accessing the "Numpad *", "Numpad +" and "Numpad -" required for TGTools shortcuts. Please add alternative keystrokes for these shortcuts ASAP! It's frustrating that Apple has eliminated this option on their portable computers, but now that they have, we desperately need new TGTools shortcuts that don't depend on being able to simulate Numpad keystrokes on a laptop keyboard. Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net Brooklyn, NY ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Efficient note entry????
Hi Richard, For the melody, you'll obviously need to make each of the dotted eighth-sixteenth figures a sextuplet, with a hidden eighth rest between the dotted eighth and the sixteenth. I think Mass Copy might make it easier to hide the rests all in one go, but you should ask Robert about that. Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net Brooklyn, NY On 12 Aug 2009, at 10:00 AM, Richard Yates wrote: Thanks, Darcy. That helps with part of it. It's the alignment of the sixteenths in the melody that is the biggest obstacle. -Original Message- From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Darcy James Argue Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:25 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] Efficient note entry You are on Fin2008, yes? Enter the accompaniment entirely in the bottom staff. (You can use Robert's Mass Copy plugin to do all the triplets, or just do them normally and use Utilities -> Change -> Tuplest to hide them). Then select the notes from the bottom staff that you want to appear in the top staff and hit opt-up arrow. No need to hide any rests, Finale will do that for you automatically. Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net Brooklyn, NY On 11 Aug 2009, at 10:46 PM, Richard Yates wrote: Any suggestions for entering this texture without resorting to manually tweaking those sixteenths in the melody? It would be a real drag (and a lot of it) to do it that way, not to mention the triplets and hidden rests in the bass across two staffs. http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/Chanson.jpg (It's Smetana if you're wondering) Thanks Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
RE: [Finale] Efficient note entry????
Thanks, Darcy. That helps with part of it. It's the alignment of the sixteenths in the melody that is the biggest obstacle. > -Original Message- > From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu > [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Darcy James Argue > Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:25 PM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] Efficient note entry > > You are on Fin2008, yes? > > Enter the accompaniment entirely in the bottom staff. (You > can use Robert's Mass Copy plugin to do all the triplets, or > just do them normally and use Utilities -> Change -> Tuplest > to hide them). > > Then select the notes from the bottom staff that you want to > appear in the top staff and hit opt-up arrow. No need to hide > any rests, Finale will do that for you automatically. > > Cheers, > > - Darcy > - > djar...@earthlink.net > Brooklyn, NY > > > > On 11 Aug 2009, at 10:46 PM, Richard Yates wrote: > > > > > Any suggestions for entering this texture without resorting to > > manually tweaking those sixteenths in the melody? It would > be a real > > drag (and a lot of it) to do it that way, not to mention > the triplets > > and hidden rests in the bass across two staffs. > > > > http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/Chanson.jpg (It's Smetana if you're > > wondering) > > > > Thanks > > Richard Yates > > > > ___ > > Finale mailing list > > Finale@shsu.edu > > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > ___ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
