Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-29 Thread Jari Williamsson
David W. Fenton wrote: Most companies, no matter how large or small, have a policy of responding to any complaints that go directly to the CEO. A client of mine was very unhappy with the support they got for their Dell laptop and I told her to write to Michael Dell. She did, using actual paper

Re: [Finale] OT Mac OS question

2007-11-29 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 28.11.2007 John Howell wrote: OK, then obviously I don't understand the problem. Are you talking about Classic itself, or about a generic OS 9.2? When I was upgraded from my older G4 (with Classic and OS 10.3.9) last spring to my present MacBook Pro with OS 10.4.10, I was told that it

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-29 Thread Jari Williamsson
David W. Fenton wrote: On 28 Nov 2007 at 19:41, Jari Williamsson wrote: Again, how is this different than for, let's say, 7 years ago? Because 7 years ago Sibelius wasn't at feature parity with Finale -- it wasn't even close (was it even ported to Windows yet?). Now, Sibelius is, arguably,

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-29 Thread dhbailey
Jari Williamsson wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: Most companies, no matter how large or small, have a policy of responding to any complaints that go directly to the CEO. A client of mine was very unhappy with the support they got for their Dell laptop and I told her to write to Michael Dell.

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-29 Thread Jari Williamsson
dhbailey wrote: Corporate arrogance only works when one truly has a monopoly marketplace. And thank goodness, that no longer is the case with notation software. In one sense, both MM and Sibelius acts as monopolists, to an even higher degree than both Microsoft and Apple. Both MM and

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-29 Thread Richard Smith
The navigation tools can be re-mapped. However, I would first want to get acquainted with Sibelius' defaults. They are quite good and remapping might result in the loss of other good keyboard features. Remapped shortcuts can also be saved to a personalized set so the defaults are not changed

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-29 Thread John Howell
At 11:10 PM -0500 11/28/07, David W. Fenton wrote: Using PageUp/Down for anything but moving from one page to the other seems to me to make little sense at all. Hmmm. Those of us using laptops don't have Page Up/Down keys, but we do have one additional key that my add-on full keyboard does

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-29 Thread Christopher Smith
On 29-Nov-07, at 12:55 PM, John Howell wrote: At 11:10 PM -0500 11/28/07, David W. Fenton wrote: Using PageUp/Down for anything but moving from one page to the other seems to me to make little sense at all. Hmmm. Those of us using laptops don't have Page Up/Down keys, but we do have one

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-29 Thread Darcy James Argue
John, Take a look at the arrow keys on your MacBook Pro. In addition to the directional arrows, they have words printed on them. Words like home, end, and page. Those alternate functions are enabled by the fn key. Same deal with the little numbers printed on the U, I, O, etc. keys --

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-29 Thread John Howell
At 1:38 PM -0500 11/29/07, Darcy James Argue wrote: John, Take a look at the arrow keys on your MacBook Pro. In addition to the directional arrows, they have words printed on them. Words like home, end, and page. Those alternate functions are enabled by the fn key. Same deal with the little

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-29 Thread David W. Fenton
On 29 Nov 2007 at 10:40, Jari Williamsson wrote: Microsoft (and even Apple to some extent) for example, built a whole empire on customer arrogance. I can't address Apple, but Microsoft built its empire on customer and developer responsiveness. It's only in the last decade that MS has become

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-29 Thread David W. Fenton
On 29 Nov 2007 at 12:19, Jari Williamsson wrote: Both MM and Sibelius use their own (undocumented) file formats, and with absolutely no interest that work should be sharable. (The MusicXML support for both programs is maintained and provided by Recordare, not by the companies themselves.)

[Finale] Smart shape and different time sigs

2007-11-29 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Hi all, Can anybody replicate this problem and have a solution? I have a piece with simultaneous time signatures of 7/8, 7/8, 5/8, 3/4 and 4/4. I can't line up the smart shapes -- they won't allow placement in certain horizontal locations. For example, the bottom four parts have a decrescendo.

Re: [Finale] Smart shape and different time sigs

2007-11-29 Thread Giuliano Forghieri
Hello---I have and have had the same problem every time I use the Indipendent Time feature (still working with 2006, by the way). Also, Indipendent Time always create problems with spacing and copy-paste, in my experience. I don't know of a solution, thus I'd be very interested in knowing