Re: [Finale] New Real Book font

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Smith
It was Finale for all the Real Books after Vol 1. The font was a custom font by the copyist, and they are guarding it jealously (I asked!) If you compare the Vol 1 to say Vol 2, the quality of the hand copying in Vol 1 is quite astonishing, IMHO. I don't think I have ever seen anything quite li

Re: [Finale] Finale/Sibelius and Finale 2005/Finale 200x comparison

2005-03-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
I was merely commenting to what David said: "I think it's crazy that the optimization information is stored with the absolute system rather than as a global setting that automatically updates the optimization when conditions change to warrant it." It is precisely the fact that the optimization info

Re: [Finale] JW Divider for OSX

2005-03-03 Thread Hans Swinnen
Hello Jari, First of all, a big thank you to both. One little problem however: the new added column "Finale 2004-2005 for Mac" doesn't show up in Safari. I searched desperately for a link on that page. Till I got the idea switching to IE (which I almost never use) and all went fine. Is this

Re: [Finale] backwards conversion from 2005 to 2004

2005-03-03 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
David W. Fenton wrote: Now, a translator layer would only have to take the memory version and write it back in the older file version. This means that certain features would be dropped, since they weren't supported by the old file format. and giving this matter some further thought, it occur

Re: [Finale] Finale/Sibelius and Finale 2005/Finale 200x comparison

2005-03-03 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Johannes, There's no reason why Finale couldn't have automatically updating optimization with the option to do a manual override. You had to do a manual override anyway to hide staves containing notes. It would be easy for Finale to keep track of which staves have been manually hidden/show

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