Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-07 Thread Johannes Gebauer

On 07.05.2006 keith helgesen wrote:
Highlight (or check-box staff) required staves- select; playback. Listen! 



This is possible in a very similar way in 2k6 with the new Studio View.

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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-07 Thread Johannes Gebauer

On 06.05.2006 dhbailey wrote:

Now maybe you could explain the logic of such a setting being the Clef Tool, 
when the same setting is NOT in the Time Signature tool or the Key Signature 
tool?  Why have two such settings in the Measure Tool but leave the third such 
setting in the clef tool?


Yes, there is a reason: Those settings in the measure attributes work on 
every staff for that particular measure. The clef setting works on every 
staff seperately, and it needs to, too. So this is actually the only way 
to do it. Also, the clef tool allows to define the size of the clef 
individually, which is neither possible nor necessary for time and key sigs.


However, as we already found out, this doesn't solve the problem of 
having all three shown, as though it was the beginning of the system, as 
it may be needed for excercises etc.


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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread Don Hart
Now that expressions, particularly dynamics, can be properly positioned
automatically, I'd really like to be able to apply by dragging around the
destination note(s) or measures.  Seems like this couldn't be too hard to
implement since it's very similar to the way articulations already work.

Don Hart


on 5/5/06 3:31 AM, Johannes Gebauer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Not that I really have the time, but this is something which I have been
> wanting to start a long time ago.
> 
> There are numerous things which I think Finale could do much better if
> small changes were made. This is not really about feature requests for
> new features, just about little things that could make our lives so much
> easier.
> 
> I'll start with a couple, and perhaps we can come up with a list which
> we can send to MakeMusic.
> 
> - tie ends to be supported in any measure, not just second endings
> - clefs after the bar line to appear after the clef-key-meter at the
> beginning of systems (needs to be optional, to be compatible with
> existing docs)
> - graphics to move with pages just as text blocks do (when pages are
> inserted)
> 
> Johannes

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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread Carl Dershem

keith helgesen wrote:

Am I being over-simplistic in suggesting the ideal 'improvement' on selected
playback;

Highlight (or check-box staff) required staves- select; playback. Listen! 


That way one could hear- e.g. 2nd Trumpet, viola, 3rd Trom and tambourine if
one wished! (Bizarre thought!) Or any other combo.

Highlight/select is often used in other applications- cannot our programmers
nut this one out?

It completely cuts out mute/unmute/instlists etc.

Pre-selected lists are fine for obvious choices such as all strings,
trumpets, low brass etc. But suppose I want to hear the oboe line against
3rd and 4th horns. Mmm- that works- now- what about same oboe line against
viola and 'cello? OK now add horns-etc. 
I'd probably want to hear this type of selection just once- and never again.


By the time I'd worked out the current selection process I'd have forgotten
why I wanted it! 


Cheers Keith in OZ


That's pretty much what would work the best for me, even though I was 
not aware of the play/mute/solo bit in the instrument list.  It'd be 
MUCH faster and easier.


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RE: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread keith helgesen
Am I being over-simplistic in suggesting the ideal 'improvement' on selected
playback;

Highlight (or check-box staff) required staves- select; playback. Listen! 

That way one could hear- e.g. 2nd Trumpet, viola, 3rd Trom and tambourine if
one wished! (Bizarre thought!) Or any other combo.

Highlight/select is often used in other applications- cannot our programmers
nut this one out?

It completely cuts out mute/unmute/instlists etc.

Pre-selected lists are fine for obvious choices such as all strings,
trumpets, low brass etc. But suppose I want to hear the oboe line against
3rd and 4th horns. Mmm- that works- now- what about same oboe line against
viola and 'cello? OK now add horns-etc. 
I'd probably want to hear this type of selection just once- and never again.

By the time I'd worked out the current selection process I'd have forgotten
why I wanted it! 

Cheers Keith in OZ

Keith Helgesen.
Director of Music, Canberra City Band.
Ph: (02) 62910787. Mob 0417-042171

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Darcy James Argue wrote:
> On 05 May 2006, at 9:11 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:
> 
>> In playback, being able to select a subset of parts for playback (the 
>> sax section, the violins, the [fill-in-the-blank] section.
> 
> Again, already possible (and very easy) with mute/solo, mute/unmute all, 
> etc.
> 

While possible, it isn't always that easy, depending on the size of the 
score.  I would think it would be easier to include staff lists in the 
playback dialogue, so it would be quick and easy, once the staff lists 
are defined, to simply select which staff lists to have play back.

That way, in setting up the score we could define our staff groups 
(flutes, clarinets, saxes, trumpets, horns, trombones, violins, strings, 
whatever) and then simply be shown a check list.

Currently, while it is certainly possible, we have to mute/solo upwards 
of 20, 30 tracks at times. And since they may well not be contiguous, 
scrolling around the list isn't all that quick or easy.

I think "easy" in this case is more in the nature of the scores one 
works on most of the time.  Quartets, quintets would be easy.  Operatic 
scores with full romantic-orchestra instrumentation is a whole lot 
harder to do.

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RE: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread Lee Actor
> > This feature has been available for quite some time with one of
> Jari's free
> > plug-ins, JW Playback, still available at
> > http://www.jwmusic.nu/freeplugins/index.html.  I use it a great
> deal when
> > I'm composing (mostly big orchestra stuff) and can't imagine
> doing without
> > it.
> >
>
> I just downloaded that, copied it to my Finale2006 plug-ins folder, and
> every time I try to run it, when I click PLAY it forces Finale to
> shut-down with an error message.  I have PDKTools 2.15 installed.
>
> Are you using it on Finale2006?  What am I doing wrong?
>

I'm using PDKTools 2.15, but on Finale 2004.  I notice the download page
claims compatibility with Finale 2000-2005; maybe Jari didn't update it for
2006?  If that is the case, it would be a huge disincentive for me to do the
next Finale upgrade, which I was planning to.  Anyone using JW Playback with
Finale 2006?

-Lee


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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread dhbailey

Lee Actor wrote:

On 05 May 2006, at 9:11 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:


In playback, being able to select a subset of parts for playback (the
sax section, the violins, the [fill-in-the-blank] section.

Again, already possible (and very easy) with mute/solo,

mute/unmute all,

etc.


While possible, it isn't always that easy, depending on the size of the
score.  I would think it would be easier to include staff lists in the
playback dialogue, so it would be quick and easy, once the staff lists
are defined, to simply select which staff lists to have play back.

That way, in setting up the score we could define our staff groups
(flutes, clarinets, saxes, trumpets, horns, trombones, violins, strings,
whatever) and then simply be shown a check list.

Currently, while it is certainly possible, we have to mute/solo upwards
of 20, 30 tracks at times. And since they may well not be contiguous,
scrolling around the list isn't all that quick or easy.

I think "easy" in this case is more in the nature of the scores one
works on most of the time.  Quartets, quintets would be easy.  Operatic
scores with full romantic-orchestra instrumentation is a whole lot
harder to do.

--
David H. Bailey



This feature has been available for quite some time with one of Jari's free
plug-ins, JW Playback, still available at
http://www.jwmusic.nu/freeplugins/index.html.  I use it a great deal when
I'm composing (mostly big orchestra stuff) and can't imagine doing without
it.



I just downloaded that, copied it to my Finale2006 plug-ins folder, and 
every time I try to run it, when I click PLAY it forces Finale to 
shut-down with an error message.  I have PDKTools 2.15 installed.


Are you using it on Finale2006?  What am I doing wrong?

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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread dhbailey

Johannes Gebauer wrote:

On 05.05.2006 dc wrote:
- in the measure attributes, the possibility to show the clef, as one 
can show the time or the key signature. The amount of fiddling this 
now requires is incredible.


Clef tool, always show. No fiddling as far as I can see.

Johannes


I replied too soon -- it may be in the clef tool, but if you want it to 
show at the start of the measure, it comes AFTER the key signature and 
AFTER the time signature, leaving us the need to work with extra 
measures and hidden barlines, hidden staff lines to get it to look as if 
it is the start of a system, even if it's in the middle of a line, such 
as for an exercise testing the reading of key signatures, where a person 
might want to put 6 different examples on one line of a paper.


Maybe we just need to beg for 2 more settings:  Before/after key 
signature and Before/after time signature?


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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread dhbailey

Johannes Gebauer wrote:

On 05.05.2006 dc wrote:
- in the measure attributes, the possibility to show the clef, as one 
can show the time or the key signature. The amount of fiddling this 
now requires is incredible.


Clef tool, always show. No fiddling as far as I can see.

Johannes



Cool!

Now maybe you could explain the logic of such a setting being the Clef 
Tool, when the same setting is NOT in the Time Signature tool or the Key 
Signature tool?  Why have two such settings in the Measure Tool but 
leave the third such setting in the clef tool?


At any rate, I am delighted that it's there -- now if Finale could only 
hire some continuity experts to ensure that similar settings be in 
similar spots in the various tools I'd be even happier.


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RE: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread Lee Actor
> > On 05 May 2006, at 9:11 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:
> >
> >> In playback, being able to select a subset of parts for playback (the
> >> sax section, the violins, the [fill-in-the-blank] section.
> >
> > Again, already possible (and very easy) with mute/solo,
> mute/unmute all,
> > etc.
> >
>
> While possible, it isn't always that easy, depending on the size of the
> score.  I would think it would be easier to include staff lists in the
> playback dialogue, so it would be quick and easy, once the staff lists
> are defined, to simply select which staff lists to have play back.
>
> That way, in setting up the score we could define our staff groups
> (flutes, clarinets, saxes, trumpets, horns, trombones, violins, strings,
> whatever) and then simply be shown a check list.
>
> Currently, while it is certainly possible, we have to mute/solo upwards
> of 20, 30 tracks at times. And since they may well not be contiguous,
> scrolling around the list isn't all that quick or easy.
>
> I think "easy" in this case is more in the nature of the scores one
> works on most of the time.  Quartets, quintets would be easy.  Operatic
> scores with full romantic-orchestra instrumentation is a whole lot
> harder to do.
>
> --
> David H. Bailey


This feature has been available for quite some time with one of Jari's free
plug-ins, JW Playback, still available at
http://www.jwmusic.nu/freeplugins/index.html.  I use it a great deal when
I'm composing (mostly big orchestra stuff) and can't imagine doing without
it.

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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread Johannes Gebauer

On 05.05.2006 dc wrote:

And what happens if you have a time sig and a key sig you also want to show? 
This is the problem, because the clef is in the wrong place.


Ah, now I see what you want, for this you will need an extra invisible 
measure. Possible, with some fiddling, though not really that much. But 
nonetheless, I understand the need.


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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread Johannes Gebauer

On 05.05.2006 dc wrote:

- in the measure attributes, the possibility to show the clef, as one can show 
the time or the key signature. The amount of fiddling this now requires is 
incredible.


Clef tool, always show. No fiddling as far as I can see.

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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread Bruce Hunter

dhbailey wrote:
But it would be so much easier to simply click the measure tool, click 
the measure where you want to force a clef to apear and set the 
attribute just as we do now for time signature and key signature, and 
have it appear at the same size as it does at the start of the system. 
Think how much time this would save for people working on exercise 
sheets for theory or harmony classes.
I concur. It will be interesting to see if any of the "it would be much 
easier if..." ideas currently being generated ever make it into an update.

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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread Bruce Hunter

dc wrote:
And what happens if you have a time sig and a key sig you also want to 
show? This is the problem, because the clef is in the wrong place.

Aha! The plot thickens! Yup, looks like no easy fix for this one. Sorry.
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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread dhbailey

Darcy James Argue wrote:

On 05 May 2006, at 9:11 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:

In playback, being able to select a subset of parts for playback (the 
sax section, the violins, the [fill-in-the-blank] section.


Again, already possible (and very easy) with mute/solo, mute/unmute all, 
etc.




While possible, it isn't always that easy, depending on the size of the 
score.  I would think it would be easier to include staff lists in the 
playback dialogue, so it would be quick and easy, once the staff lists 
are defined, to simply select which staff lists to have play back.


That way, in setting up the score we could define our staff groups 
(flutes, clarinets, saxes, trumpets, horns, trombones, violins, strings, 
whatever) and then simply be shown a check list.


Currently, while it is certainly possible, we have to mute/solo upwards 
of 20, 30 tracks at times. And since they may well not be contiguous, 
scrolling around the list isn't all that quick or easy.


I think "easy" in this case is more in the nature of the scores one 
works on most of the time.  Quartets, quintets would be easy.  Operatic 
scores with full romantic-orchestra instrumentation is a whole lot 
harder to do.


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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Carl Dershem

Darcy James Argue wrote:


S = solo, M = mute.

- Darcy


Thanks!

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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Darcy James Argue

S = solo, M = mute.

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On 05 May 2006, at 9:49 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:


Darcy James Argue wrote:


Instrument list and (in Fin '06) Studio View.


The instrument list is ... often not clear.  Using FinWin2004,  
there are columns with initials above them, but what those initials  
DO is not clear, and the documentation (such as it is) is also not  
enlightening.


Fin 2006 has not yet shown me significant advantage to pay the  
extra for it.


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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Carl Dershem

Darcy James Argue wrote:


Instrument list and (in Fin '06) Studio View.


The instrument list is ... often not clear.  Using FinWin2004, there are 
columns with initials above them, but what those initials DO is not 
clear, and the documentation (such as it is) is also not enlightening.


Fin 2006 has not yet shown me significant advantage to pay the extra for it.

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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Darcy James Argue

Instrument list and (in Fin '06) Studio View.

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On 05 May 2006, at 9:28 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:


Darcy James Argue wrote:


On 05 May 2006, at 9:11 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:
In playback, being able to select a subset of parts for playback   
(the sax section, the violins, the [fill-in-the-blank] section.
Again, already possible (and very easy) with mute/solo, mute/ 
unmute  all, etc.


I've never run across those - where are they found?

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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Carl Dershem

Darcy James Argue wrote:


On 05 May 2006, at 9:11 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:

In playback, being able to select a subset of parts for playback  (the 
sax section, the violins, the [fill-in-the-blank] section.



Again, already possible (and very easy) with mute/solo, mute/unmute  
all, etc.


I've never run across those - where are they found?

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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Darcy James Argue

On 05 May 2006, at 9:11 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:

In playback, being able to select a subset of parts for playback  
(the sax section, the violins, the [fill-in-the-blank] section.


Again, already possible (and very easy) with mute/solo, mute/unmute  
all, etc.


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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Carl Dershem

Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Not that I really have the time, but this is something which I have been 
wanting to start a long time ago.


There are numerous things which I think Finale could do much better if 
small changes were made. This is not really about feature requests for 
new features, just about little things that could make our lives so much 
easier.


I'll start with a couple, and perhaps we can come up with a list which 
we can send to MakeMusic.


- tie ends to be supported in any measure, not just second endings
- clefs after the bar line to appear after the clef-key-meter at the 
beginning of systems (needs to be optional, to be compatible with 
existing docs)
- graphics to move with pages just as text blocks do (when pages are 
inserted)


Johannes


In playback, being able to select a subset of parts for playback (the 
sax section, the violins, the [fill-in-the-blank] section.


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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread dhbailey

Bruce Hunter wrote:

dc wrote:
I'd have quite a few, but here's one that should be easy to implement, 
and that I really missed recently:
- in the measure attributes, the possibility to show the clef, as one 
can show the time or the key signature. The amount of fiddling this 
now requires is incredible.

dc,
the following works for me, (finwin2004)...
select clef tool
select measure
{in the dialogue box},
select create clef change at beginning of measure
select place clef after barline
select show clef always
(size to taste)
select ok
respace measure (click in, click out).
Or, have I, in my usual dense manner, misunderstood? 8^)
Regards,
Bruce Hunter


But it would be so much easier to simply click the measure tool, click 
the measure where you want to force a clef to apear and set the 
attribute just as we do now for time signature and key signature, and 
have it appear at the same size as it does at the start of the system. 
Think how much time this would save for people working on exercise 
sheets for theory or harmony classes.


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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Bruce Hunter

dc wrote:
I'd have quite a few, but here's one that should be easy to implement, 
and that I really missed recently:
- in the measure attributes, the possibility to show the clef, as one 
can show the time or the key signature. The amount of fiddling this now 
requires is incredible.

dc,
the following works for me, (finwin2004)...
select clef tool
select measure
{in the dialogue box},
select create clef change at beginning of measure
select place clef after barline
select show clef always
(size to taste)
select ok
respace measure (click in, click out).
Or, have I, in my usual dense manner, misunderstood? 8^)
Regards,
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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Christopher Smith
In the Mac version of Finale 2006 this is broken right now; the handles 
are wildly misplaced. I don't know about the PC version.


This is supposed to work. It is an obvious bug that has been there for 
a while.


Christopher


On May 5, 2006, at 7:44 AM, Scott Jones wrote:

Use the Expressions tool and create a shape using the graphics option 
in the shape designer and then attach it as you would any other 
expression: to a note attached or measure attached.


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On May 5, 2006, at 6:14 AM, dhbailey wrote:



I would add:  the ability to attach graphics to individual notes or 
to specific measures.


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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread dhbailey

Scott Jones wrote:
Use the Expressions tool and create a shape using the graphics option in 
the shape designer and then attach it as you would any other expression: 
to a note attached or measure attached.




I know it's possible now using your method, but the shape designer is 
less than wonderful, and I think it would be a whole lot nicer to simply 
use the Graphics tool and in placing a graphic, select whether it's 
page-attached, measure-attached or note-attached, like we can do for 
text (page-attached or measure-attached).


This would make placing fingerings which have already been created as 
graphics so much easier than messing with the shape designer.


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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Scott Jones
Use the Expressions tool and create a shape using the graphics option  
in the shape designer and then attach it as you would any other  
expression: to a note attached or measure attached.


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On May 5, 2006, at 6:14 AM, dhbailey wrote:



I would add:  the ability to attach graphics to individual notes or  
to specific measures.


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Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread dhbailey

Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Not that I really have the time, but this is something which I have been 
wanting to start a long time ago.


There are numerous things which I think Finale could do much better if 
small changes were made. This is not really about feature requests for 
new features, just about little things that could make our lives so much 
easier.


I'll start with a couple, and perhaps we can come up with a list which 
we can send to MakeMusic.


- tie ends to be supported in any measure, not just second endings
- clefs after the bar line to appear after the clef-key-meter at the 
beginning of systems (needs to be optional, to be compatible with 
existing docs)
- graphics to move with pages just as text blocks do (when pages are 
inserted)


Johannes


I would add:  the ability to attach graphics to individual notes or to 
specific measures.


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[Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Not that I really have the time, but this is something which I have been 
wanting to start a long time ago.


There are numerous things which I think Finale could do much better if 
small changes were made. This is not really about feature requests for 
new features, just about little things that could make our lives so much 
easier.


I'll start with a couple, and perhaps we can come up with a list which 
we can send to MakeMusic.


- tie ends to be supported in any measure, not just second endings
- clefs after the bar line to appear after the clef-key-meter at the 
beginning of systems (needs to be optional, to be compatible with 
existing docs)
- graphics to move with pages just as text blocks do (when pages are 
inserted)


Johannes
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