[Finale] Note spacing

2004-11-15 Thread Keith Helgesen
Maybe I hadnt noticed before, but working on a piece with lots of ties and syncopation, WinFin 2001 seems to offer bizarre note spacing in such measures. I work mainly in note spacing mode, as opposed to beat spacing or time sig spacing. Is this problem fixable- or must I tweak all

[Finale] Is FinWin 2005Worth it?

2004-11-15 Thread quinquagenarian
We Aussies are finally being offered WinFin2005. Is it worth it? I heard lots of complaints about it being very slow. I've got 2004. What features are worth having in 2005? David McKay This message was sent through MyMail http://www.mymail.com.au

Re: [Finale] Is FinWin 2005Worth it?

2004-11-15 Thread Eric Dannewitz
The tuplets alone are worth it for me. Spacing, Repeats, Grace notes. It all depends on what you are doing, but the tuplets alone save me time.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We Aussies are finally being offered WinFin2005. Is it worth it? I heard lots of complaints about it being very

Re: [Finale] Plugin question

2004-11-15 Thread dhbailey
JD wrote: on 11/14/04 8:11 PM, Noel Stoutenburg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set up regions for the numbers to always display on the top staff and with the staff tool to display on the Vln. 1 staff. So far so good. There are points in the score where Vln. 1 are out for a system, where Vln. 2

Re: [Finale] Is FinWin 2005Worth it?

2004-11-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:34 AM 11/15/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We Aussies are finally being offered WinFin2005. Is it worth it? It always depends what you mean by worth it. For me, if there's even a small improvement or two that saves me a few hours of work over the course of the year, that justifies the

Fwd: [Finale] Plugin question

2004-11-15 Thread Brad Beyenhof
I'm sure Javier meant this to go to the list as well, but it only got sent to me: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:02:12 +, Javier Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a workaround: Create another staff above the violin part. Show zero staff lines and turn off barlines, time signatures, and all the

Re: [Finale] Plugin question

2004-11-15 Thread JD
on 11/14/04 9:21 PM, Noel Stoutenburg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try to sell the client, that based on the new book on notation by Akareshnikovitzky and Herzenvortragengruber, _Musical Notation for All Times and in All Styles_, that the preferred notational style for his music at this time

Re: [Finale] Is FinWin 2005Worth it?

2004-11-15 Thread Raymond Horton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We Aussies are finally being offered WinFin2005. Is it worth it? I heard lots of complaints about it being very slow. I've got 2004. What features are worth having in 2005? David McKay This message was sent through MyMail http://www.mymail.com.au

Re: [Finale] Is FinWin 2005Worth it?

2004-11-15 Thread Jari Williamsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We Aussies are finally being offered WinFin2005. Is it worth it? I heard lots of complaints about it being very slow. Slow compared to what? Fin2004 was slow if you didn't turn off automatic lyric updating, but that was fixed in Fin2005. Also, Fin2004's screen update

Re: [Finale] Plugin question

2004-11-15 Thread Raymond Horton
Hey, I'd email you the PDF's but I'm on dial up. RBH Javier Ruiz wrote: This book is only available to people who suffered the drunk ties problem of Finale 2.0 when you printed in a dot matrix printer. In any case due to the weight of the book the shipping costs are outrageous. If you google for

Re: Fwd: [Finale] Plugin question

2004-11-15 Thread dhbailey
Brad Beyenhof wrote: I'm sure Javier meant this to go to the list as well, but it only got sent to me: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:02:12 +, Javier Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a workaround: Create another staff above the violin part. Show zero staff lines and turn off barlines, time

Re: [Finale] Plugin question

2004-11-15 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:45:19 -0500, dhbailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad Beyenhof wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:02:12 +, Javier Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a workaround: Create another staff above the violin part. Show zero staff lines and turn off barlines, time signatures,

Re: [Finale] Conversion bug in 2005

2004-11-15 Thread Harold Owen
I wrote: I have noticed a problem when converting older files with first ending repeats into Finale 2005. Instead of jumping to the second ending on the second pass, playback jumps to the first measure. It is easy to correct by resetting the first ending repeat to Next Ending or Forward with

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 and Windows 98

2004-11-15 Thread Godofredo Romero
fileprint[copies pages]output options check save as filepostcript...ta-d! Godofredo d. collins wrote: Still trying to find a solution to create EPS files from Finale, I installed Virtual PC, and then Windows 98 and Finale 2004 on my computer. But it won't run (DLL missing, and other

RE: [Finale] Finale 2004 and Windows 98

2004-11-15 Thread Burt Fenner
The only way I have found to reliably make EPS files in Windows is to first make a PDF file with Distiller and then save from Acrobat as EPS. Lots of important settings and you need to crop it in Acrobat. BF -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

Re: [Finale] Conversion bug in 2005

2004-11-15 Thread Raymond Horton
Last week, before I left town for some concerts, wasn't there some caution expressed concerning the FinWin2005a update and losing one's registration? What happened concerning that? RBH Wasn't this fixed in Fin2005a? Best regards, Jari Williamsson

[Finale] OSX strikes again

2004-11-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
I am trying to update a file from FinMac 2K2 to 2K4. It contains an eps graphic containing my logo, wh. features a bit of music. When I update the file, the noteheads and clef *in this graphic only* appear in a default text font rather than in Petrucci or whatever music font I was using.

Re: [Finale] Plugin question

2004-11-15 Thread Christopher Smith
On Monday, November 15, 2004, at 11:25 AM, JD wrote: on 11/14/04 9:21 PM, Noel Stoutenburg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try to sell the client, that based on the new book on notation by Akareshnikovitzky and Herzenvortragengruber, _Musical Notation for All Times and in All Styles_, that the

Re: [Finale] Plugin question

2004-11-15 Thread Christopher Smith
Javier, I googled the author, but I can only find a treatise by the co-author - Structural Properties of Gingerbread in Residential Construction which I don't think is what I am looking for. There was also a link to Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal in text form, which I didn't quite

Re: [Finale] Conversion bug in 2005

2004-11-15 Thread Rick Neal
That was a problem I had last week. I finally called MakeMusic and they gave me the authorization code and I put it in through the register by fax/mail option. I have been hesitant about applying the update on my desktop. Of course, if everyone else is updating with no problems, it must have

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 and Windows 98

2004-11-15 Thread Jari Williamsson
d. collins wrote: Still trying to find a solution to create EPS files from Finale, I installed Virtual PC, and then Windows 98 and Finale 2004 on my computer. But it won't run (DLL missing, and other error messages). Are there any known problems with Finale 2004 and Win98? No, they are

Re: [Finale] Fin2005a question

2004-11-15 Thread Jari Williamsson
Aaron Sherber wrote: Can anyone with the 2005a update confirm that Engraver Tuplet bugs are fixed as listed in the Readme -- in particular, that tuplet numbers no longer avoid expressions with undesirable results and that the vertical position of the number no longer varies greatly depending on

Re: [Finale] Fin2005a question

2004-11-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:49 PM 11/15/2004, Christopher Smith wrote: I'll check it when I get home, but are you on Mac or PC? I'm on mac. I'm on PC, but it shouldn't matter. This was not a platform-specific bug, so hopefully the fix isn't, either. Thanks, Aaron. ___

Re: [Finale] Fin2005a question

2004-11-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:34 PM 11/15/2004, Jari Williamsson wrote: The bugs regarding tuplets being affected by expressions and articulations are fixed. However, I would say that the bracket/number bug is still there, although it's not as huge as in the initial version of Fin2005. (The sequences of the tuplet

Re: [Finale] Conversion bug in 2005

2004-11-15 Thread Raymond Horton
Thanks, Rick. Ray H. Rick Neal wrote: That was a problem I had last week. I finally called MakeMusic and they gave me the authorization code and I put it in through the register by fax/mail option. I have been hesitant about applying the update on my desktop. Of course, if everyone else is

[Finale] Speaking of updates

2004-11-15 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
I notice an updated Dolet lite plugin is posted to the Finale site today, too. ns ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Plugin question

2004-11-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 15 Nov 2004, at 11:25 AM, JD wrote: on 11/14/04 9:21 PM, Noel Stoutenburg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try to sell the client, that based on the new book on notation by Akareshnikovitzky and Herzenvortragengruber, _Musical Notation for All Times and in All Styles_, that the preferred notational