[Finale] Characters

2007-05-23 Thread keith helgesen
Recently folks were discussing where to find ½ ¼ etc. – using alt171 and alt172- or other sources. (alt 0189 or alt 0188) These are of course in Times Roman (Windows default?) I have in my Finale Quick reference card 2001 and 2004 several other font charts Petrucci, Maestro etc. Can

Re: [Finale] Characters

2007-05-23 Thread shirling neueweise
http://www.starr.net/is/type/altnum.htm http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/cc/documentation/Foreign_Lang/Diacriticals/diacriticals_pc.htm -- shirling neueweise ... new music publishers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :.../ http://newmusicnotation.com ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Characters

2007-05-23 Thread Chuck Israels
Keith, there's a utility called PopChar that will give you a chart of all the characters (and their keyboard commands) in all the fonts you have installed on your computer. It works for Macs and PCs http://www.ergonis.com/products/popcharwin/ Chuck On May 22, 2007, at 11:19 PM, keith

Re: [Finale] Characters

2007-05-23 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
keith helgesen wrote: Recently folks were discussing where to find ½ ¼ etc. – using alt171 and alt172- or other sources. (alt 0189 or alt 0188) These are of course in Times Roman (Windows default?) I have in my Finale Quick reference card 2001 and 2004 several other font charts Petrucci,

Re: [Finale] Characters

2007-05-23 Thread Phil Daley
At 5/23/2007 02:19 AM, keith helgesen wrote: Can someone please tell me where to find the complete Times Roman character list? Start menu-System tools-Character map. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] Re: Removing embedded graphics

2007-05-23 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz / 2007/05/22 / 03:55 PM wrote: Once a graphic file has been embedded in the MUS file, you can remove it from the Check Graphics box, but it will not shrink the size of the MUS file. While this is technically a bug itself (because it is not ideally what we would

Re: [Finale] Re: Removing embedded graphics

2007-05-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
On Wed, May 23, 2007 1:07 pm, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Did we not have this option under Finale v1.0 - 2.6? No -- embedded graphics were new to 2006. Previously, graphics could only be linked. Embedded graphics were meant to be a way to improve portability of Finale files. Maybe the best way to

Re: [Finale] Characters

2007-05-23 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Trial and error have found ♪ and ♫ and also £- very useful when ordering music etc from UK! Isn't it amazing that these get through just fine in emails, yet Finale has still all these amazing problems with fonts? I recently discovered that using a special symbol from one of the Opus fonts

Re: [Finale] Re: Removing embedded graphics

2007-05-23 Thread JohnBlane
In a message dated 5/23/07 12:25:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This behavior is kinda nature of the database-driven file object, and the host app needs to have a separate executable to compact it, which can be somewhat lengthy process. Did we not have this option under Finale v1.0 -

Re: [Finale] Re: Removing embedded graphics

2007-05-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 May 2007 at 13:07, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz / 2007/05/22 / 03:55 PM wrote: Once a graphic file has been embedded in the MUS file, you can remove it from the Check Graphics box, but it will not shrink the size of the MUS file. While this is technically a

Re: [Finale] Characters

2007-05-23 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Johannes Gebauer / 2007/05/23 / 09:55 AM wrote: Isn't it amazing that these get through just fine in emails, yet Finale has still all these amazing problems with fonts? This isn't a font issue, tho. It is an encoding issue, instead. Internet file transfer is all about encoding, and UTF-8 is

Re: [Finale] Re: Removing embedded graphics

2007-05-23 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Aaron Sherber / 2007/05/23 / 01:43 PM wrote: No -- embedded graphics were new to 2006. No, I meant compress file option. Finale v1.0 - 2.6 was keep adding file size even after removing, say, smart shape. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA http://a-no-ne.com

Re: [Finale] Re: Removing embedded graphics

2007-05-23 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:43 PM 5/23/2007 -0400, Aaron Sherber wrote: Maybe the best way to work with this is to link all graphics until you're done with entering/editing, and then convert the links to embeds for portability, once you're sure you're not going to want to remove them. The problem is that link is

Re: [Finale] Characters

2007-05-23 Thread Christopher Smith
On May 23, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Trial and error have found ♪ and ♫ and also £- very useful when ordering music etc from UK! Isn't it amazing that these get through just fine in emails, yet Finale has still all these amazing problems with fonts? I recently