[Finale] TAN:Annoying Sibelius Bug

2008-03-11 Thread John Hinchey
Hi everyone, I asked Daniel Spreadbury about this and got the following reply. I mentioned that I had not had this problem but I'm on OSX 10.4.11 not OSX 10.5 I sent Daniel a copy of Darcy's post. Hi John, Do you run Leopard yet? We have experienced some problems with Apple's text e

Re: [Finale] TAN: Annoying Sibelius bug

2008-03-11 Thread Richard Smith
Hi Darcy, I don't have any help for your text problem, but you should post that to the Sibelius List, http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sibelius-list/ Daniel Spreadbury from Sibelius monitors that list and knows every bug and other intimate detail of Sibelius. He also prefers to work on a Ma

Re: [Finale] TAN: Annoying Sibelius bug

2008-03-11 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Thanks. Yeah, I sort of stumbled upon that process. Works fine. Dean On Mar 11, 2008, at 11:04 AM, ThomaStudios wrote: You can change notehead from the Properties panel, very easily. You can even make new notehead shapes and they appear in this window instantly. HTH. J D Thomas ThomaSt

Re: [Finale] TAN: Annoying Sibelius bug

2008-03-11 Thread Darcy James Argue
I wouldn't go so far as saying Sibelius's deficiencies are "no big deal" -- to name just one issue, the inability to get consistent positioning for straight gliss lines (they cannot be reliably copied, and manually adjusting them is an incredible pain -- and it's just a LINE, fercrissakes,

Re: [Finale] TAN: Annoying Sibelius bug

2008-03-11 Thread ThomaStudios
You can change notehead from the Properties panel, very easily. You can even make new notehead shapes and they appear in this window instantly. HTH. J D Thomas ThomaStudios On Mar 11, 2008, at 10:18 AM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Just another passing question on Sib. 5 (OS 10.4.11), I want

Re: [Finale] TAN: Annoying Sibelius bug

2008-03-11 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Good question. They are normal, and I couldn't edit them anyway. However, just by snooping around the help doc, I came across a paragraph much earlier in the info inre changing note heads, not editing them. So, as instructed, I went through the Properties Window, where, in fact, it is possi

Re: [Finale] TAN: Annoying Sibelius bug

2008-03-11 Thread ThomaStudios
Darcy, This pretty much parallels my experience with Sibelius 5. I started using it last October for simple student-related projects, and then in January for my first professional job. And most of that initial time was saying things like 'wow, that's really easy'; 'how simple it that' e

Re: [Finale] TAN: Annoying Sibelius bug

2008-03-11 Thread dhbailey
Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Just another passing question on Sib. 5 (OS 10.4.11), I want to change (edit) note heads from normal to diamonds for a Handbell score. I followed the instructions (in the Edit Note heads dialog box), I think, but so far, can not get them to change. Anyone else with the

Re: [Finale] TAN: Annoying Sibelius bug

2008-03-11 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Just another passing question on Sib. 5 (OS 10.4.11), I want to change (edit) note heads from normal to diamonds for a Handbell score. I followed the instructions (in the Edit Note heads dialog box), I think, but so far, can not get them to change. Anyone else with the issue or solutions?

Re: [Finale] TAN: Annoying Sibelius bug

2008-03-11 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Johannes, So far, I only have one client who insists on Sibelius, so I am still learning the ropes. (I used to be pretty good with SIb 1.4, but obviously a lot has changed since then!) I will definitely post about my experience with Sib once I have a better handle on the program. So fa

Re: [Finale] TAN: Annoying Sibelius bug

2008-03-11 Thread John Howell
At 11:58 PM -0400 3/10/08, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi all, Yes, I know I should actually join the Sibelius list and ask it over there, but I haven't gotten around to doing so yet, and the Sib users here are, so far, very knowledgeable and helpful, so... I am having a recurring problem with

Re: [Finale] TAN: Annoying Sibelius bug

2008-03-11 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Hi Darcy, I don't have the answer, however, since you seem to be using Sibelius now, I'd love to hear your experience and in depth comparison. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Fin

Re: [Finale] TAN: Annoying Sibelius bug

2008-03-11 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Mar 2008 at 23:58, Darcy James Argue wrote: > I am having a recurring problem with Sibelius where it will > periodically refuse to allow me to edit text. Double-clicking on a bit > of expression, technique, or title text normally brings up the > insertion point, but instead what happen

Re: [Finale] TAN: Annoying Sibelius bug

2008-03-11 Thread dhbailey
Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi all, Yes, I know I should actually join the Sibelius list and ask it over there, but I haven't gotten around to doing so yet, and the Sib users here are, so far, very knowledgeable and helpful, so... I am having a recurring problem with Sibelius where it will peri

[Finale] Re: PARTS Managing

2008-03-11 Thread Kim Richmond
Got it Christopher. Thanks so much. I will document this so as not to lose this solution. All the best, KIM R On Mar 10, 2008, at 10:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Finale] Re: PARTS Managing To: finale@shsu.edu Message-ID: <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [Finale] TAN: Annoying Sibelius bug

2008-03-11 Thread Andrew Moschou
Darcy, I don't know this problem, so I can't help to solve it. But here's another way to edit the text that might work better: select it (by single click) and type F2 to get the text caret. Andrew On 11/03/2008, Darcy James Argue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Yes, I know I should a