Dear Finale list members, Recordare's Dolet 3.0 for Finale plug-in is entering the final stages of beta testing. This new version of our plug-in will both read and write MusicXML 1.1 files. It will be a much improved way to exchange files back and forth with Sibelius and to move files back to earlier versions of Finale.
We could use some help is in support for lyrics and musical directions in languages from outside Western Europe - specifically, any languages that use something besides the ISO Latin-1 character set. I hope that we may be able to get some help from the international Finale list community to make things work better for different languages. We have some example files created with Finale for Windows in Russian, Hebrew, Lithuanian, and Polish, and these are working fine. It would be great if we could get some Finale files that are in other languages such as Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Greek, and Turkish, created either on Windows or Mac. We could also use Finale for Macintosh examples for Russian, Lithuanian, Hebrew, and Polish. Western European languages like English, French, German, and Italian are all set. It's languages that use other character sets where we could use your help (not just the ones listed above!) The ideal file would have the title, a musical direction, and some lyrics in the chosen language. Small files are fine; we're not interested in the quality of either the music or the engraving here. Please e-mail me (off-list) any files that you would be willing to contribute. These files will be used for our internal testing only. Thank you very much for any assistance that you can offer in making MusicXML work better for people around the world. Best regards, Michael Good Recordare LLC www.recordare.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
