Re: [Finale] Wandering tempo markings

2005-11-17 Thread dhbailey
Fred Hoeptner wrote: Hi: On windows Finale 2004, after extracting parts, I need to place the tempo marking (such as quarter note = 50 - 54) at the beginning of the extracted parts. This I can easily do using the expression tool and the Maestro character set. However, the marking will not

Re: [Finale] Printing bug

2005-11-17 Thread dhbailey
An amazing support attitude for a product which, as was stated in that recent newspaper article, was responsible for such a huge jump in corporate profits. Maybe somebody from the main office should jump on the support department and tell them to stop being such fools and to take such

Re: [Finale] Page Format for Parts

2005-11-17 Thread dhbailey
John Bell wrote: FinMac 2006a (but it has always been this way): This isn't exactly a bug, but it seems to me to be a flaw in the program. When I write a score, I usually want one Page Size and set of margins etc for score, and another for parts. I can make a template that holds all

Re: [Finale] Page Format for Parts

2005-11-17 Thread Christopher Smith
On Nov 17, 2005, at 6:21 AM, dhbailey wrote: John Bell wrote: FinMac 2006a (but it has always been this way): This isn't exactly a bug, but it seems to me to be a flaw in the program. When I write a score, I usually want one Page Size and set of margins etc for score, and another for

[Finale] A (biased) Finale-Sibelius comparison

2005-11-17 Thread Johannes Gebauer
It's worth listinening in sometimes. Some of this is complete nonsense of course, but that's where the public opinion is heading. http://www.bigbluelounge.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5897 Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de

RE: [Finale] Page Format for Parts

2005-11-17 Thread Fisher, Allen
Christopher is correct. Page margins, are dictated by pagesizes.txt. There's a section in the user manual describing what each parameter is... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Smith Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 7:25 AM To:

Re: [Finale] Page Format for Parts

2005-11-17 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 17.11.2005 Fisher, Allen wrote: Christopher is correct. Page margins, are dictated by pagesizes.txt. There's a section in the user manual describing what each parameter is... Yet, I second John's request that the page format for parts should be taken from the default file and not from

Re: [Finale] independant time signature woes

2005-11-17 Thread Minke Hylarides
David, I'm sorry, but I do have the feeling there's something wrong with your file. I tried a multi-key signature file as you described, and everything worked fine. Maybe you should try to import the music into a clean default file. Maybe that helps? Good luck, Minke (WinFin2K5) -

Re: [Finale] Page Format for Parts

2005-11-17 Thread dhbailey
Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 17.11.2005 Fisher, Allen wrote: Christopher is correct. Page margins, are dictated by pagesizes.txt. There's a section in the user manual describing what each parameter is... Yet, I second John's request that the page format for parts should be taken from the

Re: [Finale] Printing bug

2005-11-17 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Y'know, Last time we are on this thread, I offered a help but no one responded. I said, have you saved specific printer per Fin document? And send me crash log privately so I can give a half-baked uneducated guesses. Make sure you zip the log, or my mail server might choke up. I have not seen

Re: [Finale] Page Format for Parts

2005-11-17 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 17.11.2005 dhbailey wrote: Either that or there should be a wizard wizard which can be run to setup or change page sizes, in a clear manner which explains carefully (with graphic representation) what each dimension will affect. This could be run when the program is first installed, and

Re: [Finale] A (biased) Finale-Sibelius comparison

2005-11-17 Thread Dick Hauser
On Nov 17, 2005, at 5:30 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: but that's where the public opinion is heading. http://www.bigbluelounge.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5897 Johannes Most of the comments on that discussion were two years old. Wonder if 2K6 changed anyone's ... Oh .

[Finale] Unison spacing

2005-11-17 Thread Don Hart
Is there some setting I'm missing to get consistent (correct would be nice too) spacing of unisons and seconds? I thought that stems in opposite directions were supposed to be aligned, but that is a rare occurrence (at least the way I have things set up) and there seems to be no apparent rhyme or

Re: [Finale] Windows Shortcuts?

2005-11-17 Thread Dan Carno
Hi Darcy, Not sure anyone gave you a direct answer. Ctrl-Pageup/Down does this in Windows. Dan At 01:51 AM 11/15/2005, you wrote: Hello, Could someone please tell me the Windows equivalent of the Mac cmd- page up and cmd-page down shortcuts? In Page View, these shortcuts advance or go

[Finale] Re: Upgrade question follow-up

2005-11-17 Thread williamspencer
Wade, thanks for the link, which I missed. It answered my questions. So, aside from eBay any suggestions on where I might track down a newer-but-not-current version? I've got FinMac2Kc. As always my thanks in advance. * Bill Spencer in NHBW G3/400mhz/rev.2/385mb/Jaguar

Re: [Finale] A (biased) Finale-Sibelius comparison

2005-11-17 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Yeah, some real good comments thereof course they are from 2003...so. Johannes Gebauer wrote: It's worth listinening in sometimes. Some of this is complete nonsense of course, but that's where the public opinion is heading.

[Finale] Re Re: Wandering tempo markings

2005-11-17 Thread Fred Hoeptner
Thank you for the response. I'll answer your questions. (1) On the Expression Selection dialogue box, the note expression option is greyed out and thus cannot be selected. (2) This same problem has occured with four different extracted files. The Data Check option provides no clues.

Re: [Finale] Printing bug

2005-11-17 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Ok, but are they running on a Mac Mini system under 10.4.3? It doesn't seem to matter what printer I print to (Samsung or Brother). Finale will crash even doing a print preview and when I print to PDF. No printer saved things. Just to the default settings. I've deleted the printers and

Re: [Finale] Re Re: Wandering tempo markings

2005-11-17 Thread Chuck Israels
I don't remember what the solution to this problem was in 2004, but I have similar thing occur (sometimes) when converting files from 2004 into later versions. (I delete the wandering expression and replace it with a fixed one.) This has been fixed since 2005 where automatic definable

[Finale] RE: Wandering tempo markings

2005-11-17 Thread Ryan Beard
On windows Finale 2004, after extracting parts, I need to place the tempo marking (such as quarter note = 50 - 54) at the beginning of the extracted parts. This I can easily do using the expression tool and the Maestro character set. However, the marking will not stay in place. As I

[Finale] re: Wandering tempo markings

2005-11-17 Thread Ryan Beard
(1) On the Expression Selection dialogue box, the note expression option is greyed out and thus cannot be selected. It sounds like you're in Layer 2 and trying to apply notes to Layer 1. If there are no notes to apply an expression to Finale automatically defaults to measure only. Anyway, it's

Re: [Finale] Re Re: Wandering tempo markings

2005-11-17 Thread Thomas Schaller
are you using individual time signatures on your staves? or are you using a pickup measure? both these things can cause that problem if you have a pickup measure, then instead of using Finale's old way of entering a pickup measure - just use a different time signature for that first incomplete

Re: [Finale] Unison spacing

2005-11-17 Thread Don Hart
And I failed to mention that the incorporate manual spacing option in spacing options has no effect that I can find in this situation. Any dragging of notes for this purpose gets fixed as soon as spacing is applied. Sorry to go on about this, but I haven't noticed any previous discussion on the

RE: [Finale] Re Re: Wandering tempo markings

2005-11-17 Thread Lee Actor
Didn't definable expression positioning first appear in 2004? Or are you talking about a different feature (I'm still on Fin2004). -Lee I don't remember what the solution to this problem was in 2004, but I have similar thing occur (sometimes) when converting files from 2004 into later

Re: [Finale] Re Re: Wandering tempo markings

2005-11-17 Thread Chuck Israels
Oh! Maybe so. I thought it was 2005. sorry. Chuck On Nov 17, 2005, at 10:49 AM, Lee Actor wrote: Didn't definable expression positioning first appear in 2004? Or are you talking about a different feature (I'm still on Fin2004). -Lee I don't remember what the solution to this

Re: [Finale] Printing bug

2005-11-17 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Eric Dannewitz / 2005/11/17 / 01:19 PM wrote: Ok, but are they running on a Mac Mini system under 10.4.3? It doesn't seem to matter what printer I print to (Samsung or Brother). Finale will crash even doing a print preview and when I print to PDF. No printer saved things. Just to the default

[Finale] [Fwd: [Olist] Gardner Read 1913 - 2005]

2005-11-17 Thread dhbailey
I just read this on orchestralist and though I would share it with the Finale list, since we so often quote Read's books on notation. David H. Bailey Original Message Subject:[Olist] Gardner Read 1913 - 2005 Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:22:29 - From: Clinton F.

Re: [Finale] Re: Upgrade question follow-up

2005-11-17 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 17.11.2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wade, thanks for the link, which I missed. It answered my questions. So, aside from eBay any suggestions on where I might track down a newer-but-not-current version? I've got FinMac2Kc. As always my thanks in advance. What exactly is your reason

Re: [Finale] Page Format for Parts

2005-11-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Nov 2005 at 9:30, dhbailey wrote: Johannes Gebauer wrote: Yet, I second John's request that the page format for parts should be taken from the default file and not from pagesizes.txt. This has been a bother since the wizard was introduced. Either that or there should be a wizard

Re: [Finale] A (biased) Finale-Sibelius comparison

2005-11-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Nov 2005 at 8:08, Dick Hauser wrote: On Nov 17, 2005, at 5:30 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: but that's where the public opinion is heading. http://www.bigbluelounge.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5897 Johannes Most of the comments on that discussion were two years old. Wonder

Re: [Finale] {Spam} Combining PDFs

2005-11-17 Thread Minke Hylarides
Well, on your advise I tried InDesign, but it is the same thing: you have to place the two PDFs on the page by hand. It's quite easy, but still In the meantime someone thought out something for me with which I can combine the postscript files, so that they come on top of each other in the

Re: [Finale] Page Format for Parts

2005-11-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Nov 2005 at 15:58, Johannes Gebauer wrote: There are two solutions to this: Either the wizard should not alter the page format for parts at all (ie use the one that is in the default file) or have a separate option for the page format for parts in the wizard itself. Ideally with a

Re: [Finale] {Spam} Combining PDFs

2005-11-17 Thread Barbara Touburg
Hi Minke, Glad that you've got it working. Now, would you be willing to share the solution? Say hi for me to Stijn! Minke Hylarides wrote: Well, on your advise I tried InDesign, but it is the same thing: you have to place the two PDFs on the page by hand. It's quite easy, but still In the

Re: [Finale] Page Format for Parts

2005-11-17 Thread John Bell
But my point is that this doesn't work. I open the Maestro Font Default file and set Page Format for score (A3 etc etc) and Page Format for Parts (A4 etc etc), and save it. But when I create a new score, the formatting for parts has disappeared -- the Format for Score is applied to both

Re: [Finale] Page Format for Parts

2005-11-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:45 PM 11/17/2005, John Bell wrote: But my point is that this doesn't work. I open the Maestro Font Default file and set Page Format for score (A3 etc etc) and Page Format for Parts (A4 etc etc), and save it. But when I create a new score, the formatting for parts has disappeared -- the

Re: [Finale] Text Issue

2005-11-17 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Brad, you were correct ... I could have (and finally did) put the second text line into a verse 2 format, and it went to where I desired. Thanks for the clue. Dean On Nov 16, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On 11/16/05, Dean M. Estabrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 16, 2005,

[Finale] musicRAIN 2.0 - a digital sheet music player for Finale files

2005-11-17 Thread Michael Good
There was a pretty interesting announcement for Finale users earlier this week that I hadn't seen mentioned here yet. Finale users have been limited in their ability to display and playback scores within a web browser, or to sell scores securely over the Internet. The new musicRAIN 2.0 software

Re: [Finale] musicRAIN 2.0 - a digital sheet music player for Finale files

2005-11-17 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On 11/17/05, Michael Good [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.recordare.com/xml/example11.html I get an Error loading the file. Please try again later. when trying to use the musicRAIN link on this page. However, musicRAIN does look pretty cool, after checking it out with the demo on the

Re: [Finale] Unison spacing

2005-11-17 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Don I have little problem with incorrect spacing of unisons and seconds, but your request provides little informtion that would permit me to offer meaningful assistance. What platform (MAC, WIN), and what version of Finale are you using? What type of music, instrumental, or choral? If

Re: [Finale] Re: Upgrade question follow-up

2005-11-17 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wade, thanks for the link, which I missed. It answered my questions. So, aside from eBay any suggestions on where I might track down a newer-but-not-current version? I've got FinMac2Kc. Well, first place might be to try a Sibelius list. Also, check local music

Re: [Finale] Printing bug

2005-11-17 Thread John Bell
Thanks for the offer, Hiro, but I don't know where to find the crash log. I can very easily replicate the bug simply by trying to print a Finale file using any printer preset other than Default. My printer is a Minolto/QMS PagePro 9100, connected by USB, if that's relevant. John On 17 Nov

Re: [Finale] Page Format for Parts

2005-11-17 Thread John Bell
Thanks for that tip, David, it does help. John On 17 Nov 2005, at 21:18, David W. Fenton wrote: On 17 Nov 2005 at 15:58, Johannes Gebauer wrote: There are two solutions to this: Either the wizard should not alter the page format for parts at all (ie use the one that is in the default file)