Re: [Finale] Off Topic: H.C. Robbins-Landon / Haydn biography and music engraving

2010-03-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Mar 2010 at 21:56, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > So I would imagine that a large book company during this period > was using much more sophisticated computers for text, but again-- what > were they doing for music; and how would they marry computer generated > mock-ups of text with plate engravin

[Finale] Off Topic: H.C. Robbins-Landon / Haydn biography and music engraving

2010-03-05 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
Good day: I'm quite behind the times: I just discovered that H.C. Robbins-Landon passed away last November. I was a big fan of his Haydn 5 vol biography that was huge. I remember there were a lot of musical examples provided in those books. My question is: back in the 1970s when the Haydn biograph

[Finale] the font "" is not available...

2010-03-05 Thread SN jef chippewa
i'm getting this message from time to time when copying music. i used to hit ok, which apparently adds the font (but the message comes up later still), but recently i just cancelled. the music was copied but later i noticed some articulations using a custom font had been replaced by another

[Finale] WinFin 2020 Arrow keys not responding

2010-03-05 Thread Howey, Henry
I finally have 2010 on my school machine; however, the arrow keys and the various ways of moving measures around with the selection tool are not working as they do on my laptop. It's still running XP;-) Any suggestions? Henry Howey Professor of Music Sam Houston State University Box 2208

[Finale] Mysterious blank expression categories

2010-03-05 Thread Rich Caldwell
(MacFin 2009) Has anyone else seen Finale add blank expression categories that can't be deleted to a file? This morning, I discovered two new unnamed categories, each containing 2 or 3 expressions. Those expressions were duplicates of ones in the Misc. category, and I deleted and replaced thos

Re: [Finale] endings and time sigs

2010-03-05 Thread dhbailey
dc wrote: If one has a change in time signature between 1st and 2nd endings, should the first hook of the 2nd be placed before or after the new time sig? If the new time signature is part of the 2nd ending, then the first hook of the ending bracket should be before the new time signature,