Re: [Finale] Default speedy entry frame width
On Fri, March 15, 2019 8:13 am, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > I am setting up Finale for a friend, and I would like automatic music > spacing to be on. This means, that most of the time when you start > entering music in Speedy the frame is tiny, because at some point before > the empty measure had been spaced and is now small. > > Is there any way to make the Speedy entry frame default to a larger > width, so that one can actually see the notes being entered? > > I realise that one could just make the measure larger before opening the > Speedy frame, but that requires extra steps. It seems silly that this > user-unfriendly relic has stayed as bad as ever over the years... It's always bothered me. I don't think this has ever been changed (since I started with 2.1 for Windows in 1993). I think the frame has always been a fixed size. Sometimes I have high and low notes to enter, and the staves go out of the frame. Also, when dragging rests between staves, the grid disappears so placement sometimes requires several tries. Finally -- and this has persisted through a dozen different video systems, so I doubt it's video-driver related -- when entering or adjusting notes that have many ledger lines, the ledger lines go increasingly out of sync with the cursor. Speedy is my default entry method, and I've learned to live with this, albeit unhappily. Dennis ___ 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] Default speedy entry frame width
I am setting up Finale for a friend, and I would like automatic music spacing to be on. This means, that most of the time when you start entering music in Speedy the frame is tiny, because at some point before the empty measure had been spaced and is now small. Is there any way to make the Speedy entry frame default to a larger width, so that one can actually see the notes being entered? I realise that one could just make the measure larger before opening the Speedy frame, but that requires extra steps. It seems silly that this user-unfriendly relic has stayed as bad as ever over the years... Johannes ___ 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
Re: [Finale] Article about the Keaton Music Typewriter
Thank you for that link -- It's hard to tell which character will be printed as the keys are all facing sideways. My high school had a music typewriter (don't know the brand name) but in addition to the alpha-numeric keys there were additional keys for printing music. The output looked a lot like early music printing, where there were always slight interruptions between the characters printed as if each one were a woodblock placed together in a press. Thanks again for keeping us humble and for keeping our complaints about software and computers in perspective! David H. Bailey On 3/14/2019 11:20 PM, Raymond Horton wrote: Enough about Dorico! Let's go old school! https://mymodernmet.com/keaton-music-typewriter Article about the Keaton Music Typewriter Raymond Horton Composer, Arranger Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) United Methodist Church Retired Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra, 1971-2016 Visit us at rayhortonmusic.com ___ 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 -- * David H. Bailey dhbaile...@comcast.net http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com ___ 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
