Re: [Finale] opaque expressions

2007-06-27 Thread shirling neueweise
At 20:27 -0600 6/26/07, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: anything that is drawn before the opaque expression is hidden (e.g., staff element), but that it does not obscure items which Finale renders after the expression. while this is true, it doesn't explain why after entering all music (piano,

Re: [Finale] opaque expressions

2007-06-27 Thread JohnBlane
In a message dated 6/27/07 5:09:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: while this is true, it doesn't explain why after entering all music (piano, 2layers/staff) and only then applying the expression, the expression obscures only the note items it is attached to, and NOT note items (accis, stems,

[Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi all, I just got an automatic order email from MM for the 2008 upgrade. I am hoping, along with many of you, for a version that mainly repairs the things that are not working as they should in 2007. Chuck Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 phone (360)

Re: [Finale] Re: Searchable Finale Archive [hiding email addresses]

2007-06-27 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Paul Hayden / 2007/06/26 / 01:46 PM wrote: There are a variety of ways to hide email addresses from spiders, but I don't know which is the best. While I get 500+ SPAM per day (whois lists my address for 5 domains), I have never received single spam through my website (just moved, tho) because

Re: [Finale] opaque expressions

2007-06-27 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jun 27, 2007, at 7:36 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: Of course, I still think this is a pretty stupid implementation -- especially since Finale doesn't provide any way to specify the front-to-back order of items. But understanding what Finale is doing certainly helps a lot. Specifying

Re: [Finale] Re: Searchable Finale Archive [hiding email addresses]

2007-06-27 Thread David W. Fenton
On 26 Jun 2007 at 12:46, Paul Hayden wrote: David Fenton wrote: On my own web pages, I use a PHP email form so that the user never knows the address the mail is being sent to. This is probably a good idea, but I wonder if these forms are temperamental (I'm not a programmer, so I don't

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Eric Dannewitz
So they don't have a page on it yet? No word about 2008? Just that they want your money for it? Hmmm Chuck Israels wrote: Hi all, I just got an automatic order email from MM for the 2008 upgrade. I am hoping, along with many of you, for a version that mainly repairs the things that are

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Oops, as I sent that, I noticed this http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/preview.aspx Chuck Israels wrote: Hi all, I just got an automatic order email from MM for the 2008 upgrade. I am hoping, along with many of you, for a version that mainly repairs the things that are not working as they

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:41 PM 6/27/2007, Eric Dannewitz wrote: So they don't have a page on it yet? No word about 2008?  http://finalemusic.com Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jun 27, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Oops, as I sent that, I noticed this http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/preview.aspx Hmm, I have to grudgingly admit; some of those new features look interesting for what I do a lot of. New Selection Tool/Mass Edit combined into one,

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Chuck Israels
There are interesting things for me in this preview. In 2007, the importation of Document Options libraries has been broken (Mac only), making the updating of older files tedious. Perhaps this has been repaired along with the new Document Styles feature. I can hope. If Score Merge

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jun 27, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: There are interesting things for me in this preview. In 2007, the importation of Document Options libraries has been broken (Mac only), making the updating of older files tedious. Perhaps this has been repaired along with the new Document

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jun 27, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Oops, as I sent that, I noticed this http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/preview.aspx Aw crap! I just noticed this, from the Finale 2008 Interface Question in Support. Ctrl/Apple-4 = Apply Note Spacing (was previously 4) Ctrl/Apple-5 =

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Lon Price
The Import Audio feature will be a big help to me. As stated in the preview: import a stereo mix of your rock band to add a horn arrangement. This is exactly the type of thing that I do all the time. In the past I've had to do my horn arrangement in Digital Performer when the client

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Chuck Israels
uh uh! No deal. I have tried this so often it makes me want to cry. Sure the Doc Opts lib. loads, but all the font selections are screwed up, so you have to go through all of them and correct them. Too time consuming. I'm surprised this hasn't raised others' hackles - maybe it's

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I seriously doubt that Finale will come anywhere close to Digital Performer finding tempo. I'd be really surprised if it did. And what about all the infinite tweaking you can do in DP? Heck, their SmartMusic program with the slowdown feature sounds terrible. Slow down something in that, and

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Martin Banner
Yeah, yeah, I really hope Finale fixes most, if not all of the present bugs. However, most important to me is...can I get a Finale T-shirt if I upgrade? Martin (sorry, the heat's getting to me) Martin Banner [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Barbara Touburg
Can't we just reassign them with TGTools? Christopher Smith wrote: On Jun 27, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Oops, as I sent that, I noticed this http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/preview.aspx Aw crap! I just noticed this, from the Finale 2008 Interface Question in Support.

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Lots of fluff. (sounds, ability to import audio, colored note heads) Ability to merge several files into one (Score merge), and the new selection tool and copy and paste are the only things that look good to me. I wish they had some of the new Sibelius features, like Ideas, in

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Chuck Israels
On Jun 27, 2007, at 7:37 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Ability to merge several files into one (Score merge), and the new selection tool and copy and paste are the only things that look good to me. I hadn't asked for these, but they seem significant to me. Not exactly small potatoes

RE: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Richard Yates
Improvements for engravers are attractive: Document Styles, improved Selection Tool, ScoreMerge (assuming these are without the usual birthing bugs). Other addition are ominous: import of audio files suggests Finale is trying to be even more of a sequencer. Here is a cut and pasted list of 2008