RE: [Finale] music symbols in text

2004-04-29 Thread Colin Broom
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Noel Stoutenburg Hello, How do I sensibly incorporate an occasional # or b or natural, or mP or mF for that matter, in a paragraph of text (in a text block)? Don't use a notation font. there is a

Re: [Finale] music symbols in text

2004-04-29 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Owain Sutton wrote: I've had the same problem in the past as Charles Small is experiencing. ...snip I consider it both a shame (for Finale and its reputation) if it's necessary to use a different font because it shows a limitation in the software, I disagree that it is a limitation. The

[Finale] WinFin 2004

2004-04-29 Thread Ken Moore
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the Windows version and it works just fine for me. I don't use some of the frills they keep adding, but I like the additional flexibility of expression creation and application. It's the Mac folks who seem to have the

Re: [Finale] music symbols in text

2004-04-29 Thread Éric Dussault
On 28/04/04 20:22, Noel Stoutenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't use a notation font. there is a font available for free download, called, IIRC, Bach, which has the symbols in proper size and orientation to be used in a paragraph of text. I use a font called Rousseau for this matter and

Re: [Finale] Split point layout hell

2004-04-29 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 06:25 PM 4/28/04 -0700, Mark D Lew wrote: Split points are absolute hell. The UI is awful, non-wysiwyg, and it's buggy. I avoid them as much as possible, even if it means breaking into smaller measures with invisible barlines and measure numbers redone. I gave up. Since it's my own music,

Re: [Finale] music symbols in text

2004-04-29 Thread Owain Sutton
Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 29.04.2004 2:47 Uhr, Owain Sutton wrote I consider it both a shame (for Finale and its reputation) if it's necessary to use a different font because it shows a limitation in the software, and a shame (in presentational terms) that there is no coherence between the

Re: [Finale] WinFin 2004

2004-04-29 Thread Johannes Gebauer
I don't know the Windows side of things, but on the Mac there is a system option which prevents unexpected cursor movements if the touchpad is touched while you type. This does not work together with Metatools in Finale, and has to be switched off. If not very jerky mouse cursor movement is the

Re: [Finale] Split point layout hell

2004-04-29 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 29.04.2004 15:18 Uhr, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote I had forgotten how nasty split points could be. They're probably not used often, but an improved tool with a simple auto-splitting sliding bar feature (and full-time visual cue) would be great. It might also solve those staggered measure

Re: [Finale] music symbols in text

2004-04-29 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 29.04.2004 16:04 Uhr, Owain Sutton wrote What's wrong with using the Bach font? It's not the same! Maybe I'm being petty or overly-fussy, but I want all of the symbols on the page to look identical - the accidentals in the Bach font are very different to any in a regular font. To my

[Finale] OSX Patch Librarian

2004-04-29 Thread jarmstro
Thanks for responses to my earlier questions. Does anyone have views on Patch Librarians and Editors for OSX, a) that can be used with Finale and b) that can be used with Nuendo. Thanks. John John Armstrong University of Ottawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out my web page at

Re: [Finale] music symbols in text

2004-04-29 Thread Andrew Stiller
Hello, How do I sensibly incorporate an occasional # or b or natural, or mP or mF for that matter, in a paragraph of text (in a text block)? The required symbols are there in whatever music font (Maestro, say) but-- for reasons I don't understand-- getting a # the correct size to match 12

[Finale] Gardner Read Music Notation book

2004-04-29 Thread Taris L Flashpaw
I'm just wondering what the list's opinion of Gardner Read's Music Notation: A Manual of Modern Practice is. I'm thinking of acquiring it for myself and I'd like to get some opinions from people I trust instead of a bookseller's website. Thanks, Taris --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus

Re: [Finale] music symbols in text

2004-04-29 Thread David W. Fenton
On 29 Apr 2004 at 11:29, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 29.04.2004 2:47 Uhr, Owain Sutton wrote I consider it both a shame (for Finale and its reputation) if it's necessary to use a different font because it shows a limitation in the software, and a shame (in presentational terms) that there

Re: [Finale] WinFin 2004

2004-04-29 Thread David W. Fenton
On 29 Apr 2004 at 10:52, Ken Moore wrote: Because my desktop PC is old, and still running under Windows 95, I have implemented Finale on my new HP pavilion 4500 laptop, which has a touch pad instead of a mouse and runs under XP Home Edition Version 5.1. The consequence is that the

Re: [Finale] Split point layout hell

2004-04-29 Thread David W. Fenton
On 29 Apr 2004 at 9:18, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 06:25 PM 4/28/04 -0700, Mark D Lew wrote: Split points are absolute hell. The UI is awful, non-wysiwyg, and it's buggy. I avoid them as much as possible, even if it means breaking into smaller measures with invisible barlines and

Re: [Finale] Finale won't print correctly to Acrobat 6.0

2004-04-29 Thread John L. Poole
On 4/14/2004 11:11 AM (GMT -5) I posted my findings about the EPS creation (and this could affect Acrobat format since I believe the Acrobat is either derived from a temporary postscript file, or handled by the same routines that generates the EPS) on Make Music's finale forum. Basically

[Finale] Help with 7/8 Beams

2004-04-29 Thread Susan Cohn Lackman
Hi, Y'all - I'm writing something in 7/8, 2+2+3. When I put in the compound time signature I put in 1/4+1/4+3/8, and the two quarters are beamed together nicely, but the 3 eighth notes are separate, and then I have to Speedy the beams together, every measure. In fact, when I'm copying a

[Finale] Any educators using Allegro and PrintMusic?

2004-04-29 Thread Tom Jordan
I have some specific questions about these junior versions for an educational project. Can I contact you directly rather than via this list? Tom Jordan ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

RE: [Finale] Gardner Read Music Notation book

2004-04-29 Thread Larry Kent
I keep Read's book close by and refer to it frequently. It has very rarely (if ever) failed to provide the solution I needed. I'm not sure if I'm that trustworthy in these matters :) but FWIW, I write and/or edit a variety of choral, orchestral, opera, piano/vocal scores, so I need a pretty