Re: OT Micro$oft Word [was: Re: [Finale] OT A brief heads-up]

2007-09-14 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm shocked that people are so ill-informed that they'd just reject these file formats when the converters are so easily available for so many different versions of Word. Nuh Uh. It's not about converters. It's about assured, accurate and complete

Re: OT Micro$oft Word [was: Re: [Finale] OT A brief heads-up]

2007-09-14 Thread shirling neueweise
__In perpetuity.__ this is a utopic ideal that so far has seen no concrete reality, only a number of variations on very long-lasting. It doesn't matter that converters can translate the files today. What matters is whether the files can be reliably, completely and accurately read ten,

[Finale] Re: OT digital archiving [was Micro$oft Word / heads-up]

2007-09-14 Thread shirling neueweise
It's about assured, accurate and complete readability of the original files. __In perpetuity.__ as i said, a utopia, but would be interested in hearing from people who have knowledge or links to offer about digital archiving. in my work with the canadian electroacoustic community i am

Re: [Finale] Re: OT digital archiving [was Micro$oft Word / heads-up]

2007-09-14 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
shirling neueweise wrote, on 9/14/2007 6:56 AM: although this discussion began with text file format maintenance, and we are dealing with musical and sound works, many of the basic issues are similar, so any info related to digital archiving issues, no matter the milieu, would be appreciated.

Re: [Finale] Andrew

2007-09-14 Thread Gerald Berg
Sorry Is this in regards to Andrew Stiller? Jerry Gerald Berg ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] number repeated measures

2007-09-14 Thread Stan Lord
Thanks Aaron, I got Robert's plugins and was successful with the drum part. Excellent!! Now I've noticed that the repeated measure nos. are also showing on some of the other staves of the score. I don't have top staff checked in the dialogue box, BTW. I try different settings but can't

Re: [Finale] number repeated measures

2007-09-14 Thread Robert Patterson
On 9/14/07, Stan Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I've noticed that the repeated measure nos. are also showing on some of the other staves of the score. Use these settings: Beginning with Measure [999] [Check] Always Show Last [999] With multiple parts views in one file, I think you will

Re: [Finale] number repeated measures

2007-09-14 Thread Stan Lord
Thanks Robert !! Saved again !! Stan On 14 Sep 2007, at 17:49, Robert Patterson wrote: On 9/14/07, Stan Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I've noticed that the repeated measure nos. are also showing on some of the other staves of the score. Use these settings: Beginning with Measure [999]

Re: OT Micro$oft Word [was: Re: [Finale] OT A brief heads-up]

2007-09-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Sep 2007 at 4:15, Dennis W. Manasco wrote: David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm shocked that people are so ill-informed that they'd just reject these file formats when the converters are so easily available for so many different versions of Word. Nuh Uh. It's not about

[Finale] Re: OT digital archiving

2007-09-14 Thread Michael Good
Hi jef and Dennis, One of the motivations for creating MusicXML was to establish an archival-quality electronic format for common Western music notation (CWMN). It is a text-based and semantics-based format, which are essential starting points. But then the software has to evolve to fully capture

Re: [Finale] Andrew

2007-09-14 Thread dhbailey
Gerald Berg wrote: Sorry Is this in regards to Andrew Stiller? Jerry Yes -- his wife posted about a week ago that Andrew was in the hospital. -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu