Re: [Finale] Incorrectly Printing Articulation (?)

2005-03-23 Thread John Howell
At 4:38 AM + 3/23/05, John Bell wrote:
PS On reflection, since you say the inverted A is beside both notes 
it's unlikely to be an articulation -- only one instance would 
appear in that case -- so unless my earlier suggestion of O for open 
string is wrong it must me something else that applies to each of 
the two notes. Such as an unorthodox accidental? It's hard to think 
of something that would need to be applied to each note as opposed 
to the pair of them.

John
A fingering would go over the notes.  The only sign I can imagine 
being placed before the notes is a vertical bracket indicating 
non-divisi.  An accidental would only make sense if the key signature 
needs to be cancelled for those notes.

John
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Re: [Finale] Incorrectly Printing Articulation (?)

2005-03-23 Thread John Bell
On 23 Mar 2005, at 14:43, John Howell wrote:
At 4:38 AM + 3/23/05, John Bell wrote:
PS On reflection, since you say the inverted A is beside both notes 
it's unlikely to be an articulation -- only one instance would appear 
in that case -- so unless my earlier suggestion of O for open string 
is wrong it must me something else that applies to each of the two 
notes. Such as an unorthodox accidental? It's hard to think of 
something that would need to be applied to each note as opposed to 
the pair of them.

John
A fingering would go over the notes.  The only sign I can imagine 
being placed before the notes is a vertical bracket indicating 
non-divisi.  An accidental would only make sense if the key signature 
needs to be cancelled for those notes.

John
But there would only be one such bracket, not two.
John
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Re: [Finale] Incorrectly Printing Articulation (?)

2005-03-23 Thread Christopher Smith
On Mar 23, 2005, at 9:43 AM, John Howell wrote:
At 4:38 AM + 3/23/05, John Bell wrote:
PS On reflection, since you say the inverted A is beside both notes 
it's unlikely to be an articulation -- only one instance would appear 
in that case -- so unless my earlier suggestion of O for open string 
is wrong it must me something else that applies to each of the two 
notes. Such as an unorthodox accidental? It's hard to think of 
something that would need to be applied to each note as opposed to 
the pair of them.

John
A fingering would go over the notes.  The only sign I can imagine 
being placed before the notes is a vertical bracket indicating 
non-divisi.  An accidental would only make sense if the key signature 
needs to be cancelled for those notes.


The inverted A shows up on my Mac in the Symbol font and certain math 
fonts, in the character slot 34, normally taken up by a caesura 
(railroad tracks for any jazzers out there! //  ) in a music font, or 
quotes  in a normal text font. In most math fonts it seems to be the + 
over a _, except for the Symbol font. In the Wingdings font it seems to 
be a pair of scissors, which I thought was cute (caesura, means cut? 
Heh, heh!)

It looks to me like you have a different font specified for the caesura 
than is usual, either because it's a file from someone else and you 
don't have the font he used on your computer, so it was substituted by 
another symbol font, or maybe you hit the font button by accident when 
you were creating or editing it, or else gamma radiation scrambled your 
printer's or your computer's confused little brain, and a restart of 
both might clear it up completely. Or you just have to go in and change 
the font for that one articulation. File corruption happens, and it is 
nobody's fault.

Or maybe (I have seen this) someone created the caesura as a text 
expression instead of using the supplied articulation. To know for 
sure, double-click on the thing with the Selection Tool (arrow), and 
the tool that created it will be selected automatically.

Christopher
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Re: [Finale] Incorrectly Printing Articulation (?)

2005-03-23 Thread Owain Sutton

John Howell wrote:
At 4:38 AM + 3/23/05, John Bell wrote:
PS On reflection, since you say the inverted A is beside both notes 
it's unlikely to be an articulation -- only one instance would appear 
in that case -- so unless my earlier suggestion of O for open string 
is wrong it must me something else that applies to each of the two 
notes. Such as an unorthodox accidental? It's hard to think of 
something that would need to be applied to each note as opposed to the 
pair of them.

John

A fingering would go over the notes.  The only sign I can imagine being 
placed before the notes is a vertical bracket indicating non-divisi.  An 
accidental would only make sense if the key signature needs to be 
cancelled for those notes.

John

Fingerings placed before the notes, particularly on chords, aren't 
entirely unknown (although certainly to be discouraged!)
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[Finale] Incorrectly Printing Articulation (?)

2005-03-22 Thread Neal Gittleman
Hi...
Question for those way more font-knowledgable than me...
I'm trying to extrapolate something in a score which may or not have 
been printed in Finale (I suspect maybe not).  There's a pizzicato note 
(violin double-stop A-E -- open string A and E) that has to the left of 
each note an upside-down capital letter A.  I suspect it's some kind of 
articulation symbol that hasn't been properly rendered by the printer.  
Any ideas what would have printed if it was interpreted correctly?

ng
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Re: [Finale] Incorrectly Printing Articulation (?)

2005-03-22 Thread John Bell
I don't have any special font-knowledge, and I can't find an 
upside-down A in any conventional font, but might it have have been an 
O for open strings? Or conceivably a Bartok pizz?

John
On 23 Mar 2005, at 03:59, Neal Gittleman wrote:
Hi...
Question for those way more font-knowledgable than me...
I'm trying to extrapolate something in a score which may or not have 
been printed in Finale (I suspect maybe not).  There's a pizzicato 
note (violin double-stop A-E -- open string A and E) that has to the 
left of each note an upside-down capital letter A.  I suspect it's 
some kind of articulation symbol that hasn't been properly rendered by 
the printer.  Any ideas what would have printed if it was interpreted 
correctly?

ng
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Re: [Finale] Incorrectly Printing Articulation (?)

2005-03-22 Thread John Bell
PS On reflection, since you say the inverted A is beside both notes 
it's unlikely to be an articulation -- only one instance would appear 
in that case -- so unless my earlier suggestion of O for open string is 
wrong it must me something else that applies to each of the two notes. 
Such as an unorthodox accidental? It's hard to think of something that 
would need to be applied to each note as opposed to the pair of them.

John
On 23 Mar 2005, at 03:59, Neal Gittleman wrote:
Hi...
Question for those way more font-knowledgable than me...
I'm trying to extrapolate something in a score which may or not have 
been printed in Finale (I suspect maybe not).  There's a pizzicato 
note (violin double-stop A-E -- open string A and E) that has to the 
left of each note an upside-down capital letter A.  I suspect it's 
some kind of articulation symbol that hasn't been properly rendered by 
the printer.  Any ideas what would have printed if it was interpreted 
correctly?

ng
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