Re: [Finale] Preferences disappearing!

2007-03-07 Thread Michael Cook
Maybe the Preferences file is corrupted. Go to User Library Preferences and trash the Finale 2006 Preferences file. Finale should create a new one, setting all preferences back to factory defaults. Now if you set other preferences, do they stick? On 7 Mar 2007, at 07:21, Brennon Bortz

Re: [Finale] How much can I quote?

2007-03-07 Thread dhbailey
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 09:16 PM 3/6/2007 -0800, Mark D Lew wrote: The same is true of Rock of Ages and Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer. And just about everything in Yes, We Have No Bananas. :) You have all seen the YouTube video about Pachelbel's Canon, haven't you? The singer

Re: [Finale] How much can I quote?

2007-03-07 Thread dhbailey
Brennon Bortz wrote: How would that apply to harmonic structures? Is that seven notes of a melody, seven notes of chordal structures, or what? What about distinctive rhythms? :) Seems like much too grey an area to even dabble with. Rhythms haven't been shown to be copyrightable, and

Re: [Finale] French beams

2007-03-07 Thread Lawrence David Eden
What are French Beams? Patterson Beams can both create and remove French Beams. On 3/6/07, Andrew Stiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A sub-editor for me prepared the rough draft of a huge score which I've been cleaning up for almost a year now. I only just now realized that he'd set the

Re: [Finale] pdf/Mac

2007-03-07 Thread Neal Gittleman
Hal asked about corruption errors in Mac-created PDFs read (or not read) by PC-users. Is there a chance that he's sending the files as e-mail attachments and didn't check Send Windows Friendly Attachments? If so, may the PDFs could be fine but getting garbled somehow at the e-mail

Re: [Finale] French beams

2007-03-07 Thread dhbailey
Lawrence David Eden wrote: What are French Beams? French Beams are where for 16th notes or shorter note values (multiple beams, in other words) the stems for any inner notes only reach the first beam, leaving empty space between all the pairs of beams. The first and last notes of each

Re: [Finale] pdf/Mac

2007-03-07 Thread dhbailey
Neal Gittleman wrote: Hal asked about corruption errors in Mac-created PDFs read (or not read) by PC-users. Is there a chance that he's sending the files as e-mail attachments and didn't check Send Windows Friendly Attachments? If so, may the PDFs could be fine but getting garbled somehow

[Finale] Chord symbols DO-RE-MI... instead of C-D-E....

2007-03-07 Thread Marcello Noia
Forgive me if this is a stupid question but I did not find anything in the manual. I need to write some simple exercises for sax students putting on every note its name in Italian. I need to put it as a chord symbol because the exercise has to be repeated in all keys, so I need to transpose the

Re: [Finale] French beams

2007-03-07 Thread Brennon Bortz
On Mar 7, 2007, at 4:48 AM, dhbailey wrote: Lawrence David Eden wrote: What are French Beams? French Beams are where for 16th notes or shorter note values (multiple beams, in other words) the stems for any inner notes only reach the first beam, leaving empty space between all the pairs

Re: [Finale] Chord symbols DO-RE-MI... instead of C-D-E....

2007-03-07 Thread Christopher Smith
Is there something in the Chord StyleSolfeggio (in the Chord Menu when Chord Tool is selected) that helps you? I don't know the Italian names, but this gives solfege syllables. This transposes to the key that you are using, but you can transpose chord symbols separately from the notes

Re: [Finale] Chord symbols DO-RE-MI... instead of C-D-E....

2007-03-07 Thread Hans Swinnen
TGTools Misc Custom Chord Styles Hans === On 07 mrt 2007, at 14:52, Marcello Noia wrote: Forgive me if this is a stupid question but I did not find anything in the manual. I need to write some simple exercises for sax students putting on every note its name in Italian. I need to put it as a

Re: [Finale] Forced enclosures on measure numbers

2007-03-07 Thread Christopher Smith
David, Thanks for this (and Darcy, too!) but there is one more thing I need to know before extracting parts - do the enclosed numbers that I forced on the top staff in the score appear on the other extracted parts, or is there a way to copy them to other staves (Items to copy - measure

Re: [Finale] Chord symbols DO-RE-MI... instead of C-D-E....

2007-03-07 Thread Bernard Nussbaumer
Marcello, (it isn't a stupid question...) as Hans says it: use TG tools. If you didn't buy it, you may try first: http://www.tgtools.com/index-en.htm But you need to write the full exercise, transpose everything you need, and -then- apply TG tools. Bernard 2007/3/7, Marcello Noia [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] French beams

2007-03-07 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 07.03.2007 Brennon Bortz wrote: Also, often in French beams staff lines will be removed between beams so that only white space is seen--no stems or staff lines. This, however, is not possible in Finale, at least afaik. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com

Re: [Finale] Forced enclosures on measure numbers

2007-03-07 Thread Christopher Smith
I just got the answer I needed. The enclosed measure numbers do NOT appear in the other extracted parts other than the first instrument unless I manually copy them to the other staves using Items to CopyMeasure Enclosures, so I will have to do that in a copy of the score. One would think

Re: [Finale] Chord symbols DO-RE-MI... instead of C-D-E....

2007-03-07 Thread themark
Great! Hans and Bernard, you're my saviours! And thanks to Tobias Giesen for that fantastic tool Many thanks - Original Message - From: Bernard Nussbaumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Chord symbols DO-RE-MI... instead

Re: [Finale] Chord symbols DO-RE-MI... instead of C-D-E....

2007-03-07 Thread themark
- Original Message - From: Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 4:10 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Chord symbols DO-RE-MI... instead of C-D-E Is there something in the Chord StyleSolfeggio (in the Chord Menu when Chord Tool is

Re: [Finale] How much can I quote?

2007-03-07 Thread Mark D Lew
On Mar 6, 2007, at 9:43 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: And just about everything in Yes, We Have No Bananas. :) Hallelujah, bananas! Oh, bring back my 'nanas to me. But that one has the same rhythms. The point of the Rock-Rudolph comparison is that with completely different rhythm, the

Re: [Finale] pdf/Mac

2007-03-07 Thread Mark D Lew
Neal Gittleman wrote: Hal asked about corruption errors in Mac-created PDFs read (or not read) by PC-users. [...] I missed the beginning of this discussion, so maybe this has been covered, but here's my data point for what it's worth. I have a client I've been working with for ages. I

Re: [Finale] Rights for recorded tunes and arrangements?

2007-03-07 Thread John Howell
At 9:40 PM -0800 3/6/07, Mark D Lew wrote: That, too, would serve the purpose of protecting you. It seems pretty clear that the woman and her husband would never object. The only worry is if years later some heir tries to assert copyright to shut you down. If that were to happen, your

Re: [Finale] Rights for recorded tunes and arrangements?

2007-03-07 Thread Raymond Horton
Excellent advice and not far from the excellent advice of John Howell below (a simple letter of understanding, from you to her, including the points you discussed verbally and agreed to). You both suggest something informal, in writing, that shows for her heirs that she was in agreement and

Re: [Finale] Unhandled exception caught

2007-03-07 Thread Phil Daley
At 3/6/2007 04:16 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: More Mac Intel woes -- now I can't even run Finale 2006d -- it crashes on launch with the message Unhandled exemption caught. Any ideas what is causing this? Unhandled means that the program does not have a Try/Catch structure around the code

Re: [Finale] Chord symbols DO-RE-MI... instead of C-D-E....

2007-03-07 Thread arabushk
Yes, myself and a Mexican theory student had fun once (the lessons alternated between Spanish and English) with the following equivalncies: English Spanish C do B si yes sí Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Finale] Windows Vista

2007-03-07 Thread Richard Yates
Does anyone know if there are compatibility issues with Finale 2007 (and earlier) with Windows Vista? Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] French beams

2007-03-07 Thread Mark D Lew
On Mar 7, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: What are French Beams? It's an abbreviation. What he really means is French-style cut green beams. mdl ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Windows Vista

2007-03-07 Thread Rick Neal
I have been using 2007 with Windows Vista for several weeks now. It runs fast and I have had no problems at all. The place I 'have' run into problems is using my M-Audio Firewire Audiophile audio interface. As of yet, drivers for the box only support XP and earlier. It's giving me a chance to

Re: [Finale] French beams

2007-03-07 Thread John Roberts
Ho, ho, ho! (Green Giant?) JR On 3/8/07 1:21 AM, Mark D Lew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 7, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: What are French Beams? It's an abbreviation. What he really means is French-style cut green beams. mdl