[Finale] Message for Michael Lawlor

2005-08-17 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Michael, I am getting errors replying to your message, Please can you tell me what your proper email address is? Your messages always have two From addresses, which is very non-standard. Both of these addresses are giving me send errors Could not send message for past 4 hours. Johannes --

Re: [Finale] Little joke for MacFinale users...

2005-08-17 Thread Phil Daley
At 8/16/2005 05:19 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: When I got my first Win95 PC, I was very disappointed with Windows Explorer in the beginning and tried using File Manager for a while, but once I started accumulating long file names, it became impossible to use. I eventually got used to the single

[Finale] Cautionary Accidentals plugin

2005-08-17 Thread Johannes Gebauer
I remember there was a problem with this plugin when it was first released years ago. Tobias at the time brought out a corrected version. The problem with the original version was that it messed up manually included cautionaries. I am wondering whether the current version which ships with

[Finale] Dividing a volume

2005-08-17 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Is there anything I have to be aware of when dividing a long score into two? I was going to simply duplicate the score and cut out the half I don't want. Naturally I will have to sort out page text blocks first (probably make them measure text blocks for the conversion). Anything else?

[Finale] [TAN] OSx86 for $199

2005-08-17 Thread Simon Troup
As some of you may already be aware, some intrepid geeko techs are already trying to figure out how to get OSX to run on an ordinary PC, and some ae now speculating on how cheaply a PC could be built to run OSX: http://www.osx86project.org/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=27Itemid=2

Re: [Finale] Dividing a volume

2005-08-17 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Page Numbers are no problem (the point is that it's going to be two volumes). Measure numbers are a problem, but not that difficult to fix. There are no MM-rests (just organ music, no parts). Out of curiosity: I can't understand the Multi-measure rests problem, what about them? Johannes

Re: [Finale] Dividing a volume

2005-08-17 Thread dhbailey
Johannes Gebauer wrote: Is there anything I have to be aware of when dividing a long score into two? I was going to simply duplicate the score and cut out the half I don't want. Naturally I will have to sort out page text blocks first (probably make them measure text blocks for the

Re: [Finale] [TAN] OSx86 for $199

2005-08-17 Thread Phil Daley
At 8/17/2005 08:15 AM, Simon Troup wrote: As some of you may already be aware, some intrepid geeko techs are already trying to figure out how to get OSX to run on an ordinary PC, and some ae now speculating on how cheaply a PC could be built to run OSX: I read yesterday that it had already been

Re: [Finale] [TAN] OSx86 for $199

2005-08-17 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On 17/08/05, Simon Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As some of you may already be aware, some intrepid geeko techs are already trying to figure out how to get OSX to run on an ordinary PC, and some ae now speculating on how cheaply a PC could be built to run OSX: [link snipped] This looks like

Re: [Finale] RE: NoteWorthy Composer file conversion?

2005-08-17 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On 16/08/05, Michael Good [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently NIFF and MusicXML are fairly similar. Aside from being notation interchange formats, NIFF and MusicXML have little in common. MusicXML did borrow some small ideas from NIFF. NIFF had a lot of really smart people working on it,

Re: [Finale] Cross-platform MAC / PC font display dilemna

2005-08-17 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Michael Good / 2005/08/16 / 02:04 PM wrote: I don't think the cross-platform character set conversion works for anything other than the characters in common between MacRoman and the Windows-1252 character set. The Icelandic characters don't appear in the MacRoman character set. This is for the US

Re: [Finale] [TAN] OSx86 for $199

2005-08-17 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Simon Troup / 2005/08/17 / 08:15 AM wrote: I suppose the fact that Apple make the hardware and the OS means that there are stability advantages, but how bad can it be if you built your own system? In my 17 years of my Mac life, I made a fatal mistake by buying PowerTower Pro, a Mac clone. At

[Finale] Thanks for your mail. My computer is going into the shop today, and I am away until Labor

2005-08-17 Thread John McGann
Thanks for your mail. My computer is going into the shop today, and I am away until Labor Day. I will try to check my email/phone periodically...if you have sent an mp3 for evaluation, it will take place after Labor Day (Sept. 5th). If you are a Berklee student looking for an ensemble waiver, I

RE: [Finale] Cross-platform MAC / PC font display dilemna

2005-08-17 Thread Michael Good
Hi Hiro, Internally, Finale files don't use Unicode. Everything is stored in the older language-specific encodings. That's the core of our problem with translating back and forth to MusicXML. Getting from the language-specific encoding to Unicode is easier than going the other way. So we can

Re: [Finale] Little joke for MacFinale users...

2005-08-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Aug 2005 at 6:46, Phil Daley wrote: At 8/16/2005 05:19 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: When I got my first Win95 PC, I was very disappointed with Windows Explorer in the beginning and tried using File Manager for a while, but once I started accumulating long file names, it became

Re: [Finale] [TAN] OSx86 for $199

2005-08-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
[RE-SENT TO LIST. AGAIN. HENRY, WHERE ARE YOU???] On 17 Aug 2005, at 8:15 AM, Simon Troup wrote: As some of you may already be aware, some intrepid geeko techs are already trying to figure out how to get OSX to run on an ordinary PC, and some ae now speculating on how cheaply a PC could

Re: [Finale] Thanks for your mail. My computer is going into the shoptoday, and I am away until Labor

2005-08-17 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:08 PM 8/17/05 -0400, John McGann wrote: Thank you for your patience! Aincha glad he gets the digest? Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] [TAN] OSx86 for $199

2005-08-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Aug 2005 at 13:53, Darcy James Argue wrote: The whole point is that after years of being shackled by Motorola's and IBM's disappointing production, Apple had little choice but to go with x86 processors or continue to be left behind (especially w/r/t portables). I thought that

Re: [Finale] FinWin 2k5 - underscore interpreted as a word splitting?

2005-08-17 Thread A-NO-NE Music
themark / 2005/08/16 / 07:39 AM wrote: I'm writing a lyric in a score; there is a quarter note where two words are to be sung as one, and_I'll. With Finale 2003 I put an underscore (shift+-key) like I wrote before and it worked, now with 2005 the underscore is interpreted by Finale as a word

[Finale] Balance Issues

2005-08-17 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
I set up a score for a bunch of wind instruments and some basic Fin GPO Orchestral Perc. instruments. Compared to the winds, the perc sounds play back way softer. I have messed around with the Mixer, some, but wonder if there is a efficient way to bring up the volume of the percs. E.g.,

Re: [Finale] Thanks for your mail. My computer is going into the shoptoday, and I am away until Labor

2005-08-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 17 Aug 2005, at 1:22 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 01:08 PM 8/17/05 -0400, John McGann wrote: Thank you for your patience! Aincha glad he gets the digest? Ahem. WHERE. IS. HENRY? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY ___

Re: [Finale] Little joke for MacFinale users...

2005-08-17 Thread Phil Daley
At 8/17/2005 01:51 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: No. My Computer is an Explorer view without the Folder Pane. You can make it look like what you get when you run Explorer.exe by going to the View menu and choosing to display the Folder Pane (under the poorly-named Explorer Bar menu choice). I mean

Re: [Finale] [TAN] OSx86 for $199

2005-08-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 17 Aug 2005, at 2:31 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 17 Aug 2005 at 13:53, Darcy James Argue wrote: The whole point is that after years of being shackled by Motorola's and IBM's disappointing production, Apple had little choice but to go with x86 processors or continue to be left behind

Re: [Finale] Balance Issues

2005-08-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
Well, yes -- use the mixer! Or Studio View. (I don't understand what you mean by I have messed around with the mixer -- doesn't it solve your problem? It should.) - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 17 Aug 2005, at 2:18 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: I set up a score for a

Re: [Finale] Balance Issues

2005-08-17 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Ok, if I want to make the SD as loud as the winds, that means I have to set the winds (on the mixer) way down to about 60 or so, and the SD up to 127 ... seems funny that they would be that out of balance in a default mode, or is that just me? Also, sliding all those adjustors for each

Re: [Finale] Balance Issues

2005-08-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
You can set the default volume in the Instrument list as well -- it uses numbers instead of sliders, so if you like, you can quickly enter 60 for multiple staves. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 17 Aug 2005, at 5:37 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Ok, if I want to make the

Re: [Finale] FinWin 2k5 - underscore interpreted as a word splitting?

2005-08-17 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
A-NO-NE Music wrote: themark / 2005/08/16 / 07:39 AM wrote: I'm writing a lyric in a score; there is a quarter note where two words are to be sung as one, and_I'll. With Finale 2003 I put an underscore (shift+-key) like I wrote before and it worked, now with 2005 the underscore is

Re: [Finale] Little joke for MacFinale users...

2005-08-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Aug 2005 at 14:42, Phil Daley wrote: At 8/17/2005 01:51 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: No. My Computer is an Explorer view without the Folder Pane. You can make it look like what you get when you run Explorer.exe by going to the View menu and choosing to display the Folder Pane (under

Re: [Finale] [TAN] OSx86 for $199

2005-08-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Aug 2005 at 15:31, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 17 Aug 2005, at 2:31 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 17 Aug 2005 at 13:53, Darcy James Argue wrote: The whole point is that after years of being shackled by Motorola's and IBM's disappointing production, Apple had little choice but

[Finale] 3 Dale Dances. (OT)

2005-08-17 Thread keith helgesen
I recently got from UK a very old print of “Three Dale Dances” by Arthur Wood arr by Sydney Herbert. Serving in the Royal Corps of Signals Band in the 50’s and 60’s we used to play this on bandstands all round the country. OK so far- but, the arrangement I received is Boosey Co No 651

Re: [Finale] [TAN] OSx86 for $199

2005-08-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 17 Aug 2005, at 9:19 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Not at all. IBM has denied it, of course, but since both Intel's and IBM's long-term roadmaps are secret, we have no way of knowing if the Apple line about long-term power-per-watt with Intel vs. IBM is correct. Nonetheless, it's certainly

Re: [Finale] [TAN] OSx86 for $199

2005-08-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Aug 2005 at 21:28, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 17 Aug 2005, at 9:19 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Not at all. IBM has denied it, of course, but since both Intel's and IBM's long-term roadmaps are secret, we have no way of knowing if the Apple line about long-term power-per-watt with

Re: [Finale] Little joke for MacFinale users...

2005-08-17 Thread Richard Yates
And I'm criticizing the hierarchical view that is in the folder pane because it groups at the same level in the hierarchy things that are not by any stretch of the imagination the same things (except insofar as Windows Explorer's presentation forces you to treat them as though they belong at

Re: [Finale] [TAN] OSx86 for $199

2005-08-17 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On 17/08/05, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Taking the time to re-architect your flagship OS (however much you've worked all along to try to ensure cross-compatibility), as opposed to waiting a few months for the new IBM chips? They didn't just try to ensure cross-compatibility.