Re: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread Christopher Smith
On May 23, 2005, at 6:57 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I actually had better luck programming the double-click to be screen-specific instead of window-specific. (Since my Finale windows are always maximized, it doesn't make any difference to me, but I couldn't get the screen specific shortcut

Re: [Finale] Re: Editing & Saving Libraries

2005-05-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 May 2005 at 21:44, shirling & neueweise wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > >it's using lots of shapes (though most are just text). > > 2004+ has new text features which make such things unnecessary. and > assigning the shape text-articulations will cause document bloat > (finale makes a ne

Re: [Finale] Editing & Saving Libraries

2005-05-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 May 2005 at 20:33, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > >So far so good (with the exceptions of the half dozen or so shape > >definitions that are not deletable for some reason). > > First, check the playback parameters of each individual text > expression; my hunch is that

[Finale] Re: Editing & Saving Libraries

2005-05-23 Thread shirling & neueweise
David W. Fenton wrote: it's using lots of shapes (though most are just text). 2004+ has new text features which make such things unnecessary. and assigning the shape text-articulations will cause document bloat (finale makes a new copy of shape expressions in the shape designer each time

Re: [Finale] Editing & Saving Libraries

2005-05-23 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
David W. Fenton wrote: So far so good (with the exceptions of the half dozen or so shape definitions that are not deletable for some reason). First, check the playback parameters of each individual text expression; my hunch is that the half dozen shapes are specified as playback parameters.

Re: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
I actually had better luck programming the double-click to be screen-specific instead of window-specific. (Since my Finale windows are always maximized, it doesn't make any difference to me, but I couldn't get the screen specific shortcut to work.) Anyway, it's the same principle as QuicKeys

Re: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Christopher Smith / 2005/05/23 / 06:11 PM wrote: >Can you share with me how you programmed your shortcut? Once you get used to iKey, it's pretty easy. You assign double click to the bar num field measured from the left bottom corner of the main window. When you hit the hotkey, the field is acti

Re: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread Christopher Smith
On May 23, 2005, at 12:45 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Christopher Smith / 2005/05/23 / 11:09 AM wrote: It seems to me that there was a keyboard shortcut to go to a certain bar number, instead of clicking on the measure field at the bottom and typing. I can't find any mention of it in the manual.

[Finale] Editing & Saving Libraries

2005-05-23 Thread David W. Fenton
I'm trying to create some libraries for editorial articulations and expressions, and Finale is giving me fits. I started by saving the libraries from the file where I created them. I then loaded them into a blank template, and deleted all the unnecessary stuff. I then did a data check to remov

Re: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread Christopher Smith
On May 23, 2005, at 1:24 PM, John Abram wrote: "A-NO-NE Music" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Christopher Smith / 2005/05/23 / 11:09 AM wrote: It seems to me that there was a keyboard shortcut to go to a certain bar number, instead of clicking on the measure field at the bottom and typing. I

[Finale] Rotating screens, FinMac2k5 & Tiger

2005-05-23 Thread Randolph Peters
At 6:44 PM -0400 5/22/05, Darcy James Argue wrote: I have also heard that there are (at least for the moment) significant performance problems with rotated displays. I suspect that the the slow menus, etc., you are seeing are much more a function of general screen-rotation performance issu

Re: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread Jari Williamsson
Lee Actor wrote: Do you mean Alt-U? Alt+U for measure number in Scroll View, Alt+A for page number in Page View. Best regards, Jari Williamsson ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

RE: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread Lee Actor
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Christopher > Smith asks: > >It seems to me that there was a keyboard shortcut to go to a certain > >bar number, instead of clicking on the measure field at the bottom and > >typing. I can't find any mention of it in the manual. Does somebody > >know what it is?

[Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread Ken Moore
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Christopher Smith asks: >It seems to me that there was a keyboard shortcut to go to a certain >bar number, instead of clicking on the measure field at the bottom and >typing. I can't find any mention of it in the manual. Does somebody >know what it is? FinMac 2005b

Re: [Finale] Re: clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 May 2005 at 16:11, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 04:03 PM 5/23/05 -0400, you wrote: > >I tried both clip files and copy/paste. The problems were identical > >with both (and I tried it with both). > > Yes. That's why I suggested copy/INSERT. It's the only one I've used > over the years be

Re: [Finale] Re: clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 May 2005 at 14:32, Robert Patterson wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > > Finale's copying between files is a complete mess. > > This statement strikes me as hyperbole, but certainly there are some > serious flaws. The consensus is correct that there is no functional > difference between C

Re: [Finale] Re: clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:03 PM 5/23/05 -0400, you wrote: >I tried both clip files and copy/paste. The problems were identical >with both (and I tried it with both). Yes. That's why I suggested copy/INSERT. It's the only one I've used over the years because it seems to work correctly. It would be nice to know if oth

Re: [Finale] Re: clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 May 2005 at 15:05, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 02:51 PM 5/23/05 -0400, shirling & neueweise wrote: > >maybe there's no reason to use clip files and i should just > >copy-paste? > > A few weeks ago I pasted together an orchestral score from 10 > individual sections ... you might recall

Re: [Finale] Re: clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread Robert Patterson
David W. Fenton wrote: Finale's copying between files is a complete mess. This statement strikes me as hyperbole, but certainly there are some serious flaws. The consensus is correct that there is no functional difference between Copy/Insert and clip files. They both produce the same resul

Re: [Finale] Re: clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 May 2005 at 14:51, shirling & neueweise wrote: > >copied to clip files (cmd-sh-C) > cmd-opt-C... > > maybe there's no reason to use clip files and i should just > copy-paste? There isn't any reason to use clip files, except if there's an advantage of having the persistent data on the hard

Re: [Finale] Re: clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 02:51 PM 5/23/05 -0400, shirling & neueweise wrote: >maybe there's no reason to use clip files and i should just copy-paste? A few weeks ago I pasted together an orchestral score from 10 individual sections ... you might recall my question about that. Copy/paste never worked properly, and I do

Re: [Finale] clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 May 2005 at 14:25, shirling & neueweise wrote: > i have three sections (each a separate file) of an orchestral score > that i combined into one new document using clip files, and am > discovering errors, things that weren't copied over, for example, in > one section, all smart shapes for a s

[Finale] Re: clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread shirling & neueweise
copied to clip files (cmd-sh-C) cmd-opt-C... maybe there's no reason to use clip files and i should just copy-paste? if the default music font is different in the two files, any expressions defined with the default font from the source are changed to the default font of the target doc after

Re: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread Jari Williamsson
dhbailey wrote: What they're looking for is a simple key-combination that opens a Go To Measure ___ dialog so you don't have to take your hands off the keyboard to get to a particular measure, the way you do now, having to move the mouse cursor to the measure number at the bottom of the screen

[Finale] clip file filters all but one measure

2005-05-23 Thread shirling & neueweise
i have three sections (each a separate file) of an orchestral score that i combined into one new document using clip files, and am discovering errors, things that weren't copied over, for example, in one section, all smart shapes for a single staff, and even more bizarre, in another section,

Re: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread dhbailey
John Abram wrote: "A-NO-NE Music" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Christopher Smith / 2005/05/23 / 11:09 AM wrote: It seems to me that there was a keyboard shortcut to go to a certain bar number, instead of clicking on the measure field at the bottom and typing. I can't find any mention of it in

Re: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread John Abram
"A-NO-NE Music" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Christopher Smith / 2005/05/23 / 11:09 AM wrote: It seems to me that there was a keyboard shortcut to go to a certain bar number, instead of clicking on the measure field at the bottom and typing. I can't find any mention of it in the manual. Does so

Re: [Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Christopher Smith / 2005/05/23 / 11:09 AM wrote: >It seems to me that there was a keyboard shortcut to go to a certain >bar number, instead of clicking on the measure field at the bottom and >typing. I can't find any mention of it in the manual. Does somebody >know what it is? FinMac 2005b. I

[Finale] Shortcut to go to a bar number?

2005-05-23 Thread Christopher Smith
It seems to me that there was a keyboard shortcut to go to a certain bar number, instead of clicking on the measure field at the bottom and typing. I can't find any mention of it in the manual. Does somebody know what it is? FinMac 2005b. Thanks Christopher __

Re: [Finale] .eps Export/Import into Word

2005-05-23 Thread Jonathan Smith
 From what Darcy says, the replacement of AppleWorks supports PDFs no  problem. AppleWorks6 dates back to when OSX first came out, so the fact  that they can be imported at all is surprising. I guess I will be looking into replacing my venerable AppleWorks. I  kinda liked it; so I hope they haven'