Re: [Finale] a hopeful sign

2007-07-23 Thread Jonathan Smith
I would not concur with this, as I recently did a piece in B major and had to convert some key-signature A sharps to Bb accidentals and back again as I changed my mind, and they went wonky. It seems to be that any time you hit 9 in Speedy you take your life (well, your enharmonic life

[Finale] Addendum

2007-07-23 Thread Barbara Touburg
If I insert and/or edit the new staff in scroll view, the top margin isn't affected. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] Insert staff bug?

2007-07-23 Thread Barbara Touburg
When I insert a staff above the top staff, the top margin setting gets cleared. Also when I edit the inserted staff, the same thing happens. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] a hopeful sign

2007-07-23 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 23, 2007, at 3:27 AM, Jonathan Smith wrote: I would not concur with this, as I recently did a piece in B major and had to convert some key-signature A sharps to Bb accidentals and back again as I changed my mind, and they went wonky. It seems to be that any time you hit 9 in

Re: [Finale] New is confusing

2007-07-23 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Aaron Sherber / 2007/07/21 / 10:24 AM wrote: In Fin2008, you can use keyboard shortcuts to expand and contract a selection. So if you've got both 8ths of the 3rd beat selected, do Shift-left arrow and then do Shift-right arrow twice, and you'll wind up with the second 8th selected. Man, this

[Finale] Layout Update

2007-07-23 Thread A-NO-NE Music
I often select a region and add negative value to measure width. I like this way than system lock, while I really wish to be able to lock the width themselves. With FinMac2k8, this action no longer update the layout. This wasn't so before FinMac2k8, and I also understand a lot of people hated

Re: [Finale] New is confusing

2007-07-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:26 PM 7/23/2007, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Man, this is amazing. How did you find this solution?  The keyboard shortcuts seem to be buried in the help file. From the TOC tab, open 'Encyclopedia', then 'S' and 'Selecting music'. This page doesn't appear to be linked from the Index or from

[Finale] Fin/Sib

2007-07-23 Thread Bruce Clausen
Thanks everyone for your insights on Finale/Sibelius. I would have thanked you all earlier but my email has been down. It seems that Finale would be best for engraving and Sibelius better for composing. My bottom line is that I'll probably have to use both to eventually make a decision.

[Finale] Re: Prepositions -- now language oddities

2007-07-23 Thread David Froom
And seven consecutive thats across two sentences (that together have 12 thats)? In that sentence, that man used that, but that woman used that that. That that that that that woman used in that sentence was correct. David Froom On 23 Jul 2007, at 1:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two

[Finale] OT: 14 hads in a row

2007-07-23 Thread David Froom
Bradley and Hadley had written sentences. Brad's had been better than Had's. Where Brad had had had had; Had had had had; had Had had had had, Had would have had Brad's success. Yes, it is a slow day. David Froom ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Fin/Sib

2007-07-23 Thread dhbailey
Bruce Clausen wrote: Thanks everyone for your insights on Finale/Sibelius. I would have thanked you all earlier but my email has been down. It seems that Finale would be best for engraving and Sibelius better for composing. My bottom line is that I'll probably have to use both to eventually

[Finale] Spurs

2007-07-23 Thread Bruce Clausen
A colleague from the OrchList is trying to find the correct percussion solution for the German term Sporen, which I find in my Woerterbuch Musik as spurs. The passage in question is in Die Fledermaus. Does anyone out there have any information? This term appears in the tymp. part. Is it a

Re: [Finale] OT: 14 hads in a row

2007-07-23 Thread arabushk
Bradley and Hadley had written sentences. Brad's had been better than Had's. Where Brad had had had had; Had had had had; had Had had had had, Had would have had Brad's success. Yes, it is a slow day. David Froom ___ Finale mailing list

RE: [Finale] Cadenza

2007-07-23 Thread Williams, Jim
Bruce... Yes, it's quite doable as ONE measure. One way is to: *with the time sig tool, create ONE large measure equal to the number of beats in the cadenza. (IOW the timesig change is good for ONE bar only) I did one yesterday that worked out to 22/4. This way, there's only one measure, so

Re: [Finale] OT: 14 hads in a row

2007-07-23 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 23, 2007, at 3:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, for the francophones among us: le ver vert va vers le verre vert! ...à l'envers! (that is, the green worm goes toward the green glass... upside down.) Another: Il serait un péché de m'empêcher de me dépêcher à manger mes

Re: [Finale] Cadenza

2007-07-23 Thread Bruce Clausen
Thanks, Jim. I'll be engraving this section tonight. BC - Original Message - From: Williams, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 1:46 PM Subject: RE: [Finale] Cadenza Bruce... Yes, it's quite doable as ONE measure. One way is to: *with the time

RE: [Finale] Cadenza

2007-07-23 Thread Williams, Jim
Let me know how it works. I ought to be around this evening if you get stuck. Jim From: Bruce Clausen Sent: Mon 23-Jul-07 18:02 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] Cadenza Thanks, Jim. I'll be engraving this section tonight. BC - Original Message - From: Williams, Jim

[Finale] Jari's review?

2007-07-23 Thread Andrew Levin
Greetings, I've been following the discussion of the new Finale 2008, but what I haven't yet seen is a reference to Jari's yearly in-depth review. Have I missed it? It's not posted to his website. Thanks. Andrew Levin ___ Finale mailing list