Re: [Finale] EPS export - Mac OS X 10.4 - Fin07

2007-01-19 Thread Éric Dussault
On 07-01-18, at 23:30, Fiskum, Steve wrote: Hello Éric, Let me stray from the EPS subject a bit... I was in your boat for a long time. We were going to keep PageMaker running as long as we could and stick with OS9 files and keep our files in versions 3.5.2 thru 2003 until we came to the

Re: [Finale] 2007b is out

2007-01-18 Thread Éric Dussault
I am a bit surprised by this. I noticed as soon as I installed 2007a that only one version remained on my finale folder and that I didn't need to copy all my iKey shortcuts to a newly created app (2007a). It still read as 2007 except if I click on “about Finale” on the Finale menu. This

Re: [Finale] EPS export - Mac OS X 10.4 - Fin07

2007-01-18 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 07-01-18 à 12:47, Paul Hayden a écrit : I've been confused by some recent postings about EPS exporting on Macs -- I thought MM finally straightened out that problem. Does EPS export work reliably with Finale 2007 on Macs running OS X 10.4 (Tiger)? Any problems with embedding fonts,

Re:[Finale] EPS export - Mac OS X 10.4 - Fin07

2007-01-18 Thread Éric Dussault
On 07-01-18, at 21:46, Leigh Daniels wrote: I just did a quick test with FinMac2007a, 10.4.8 and was able to export an EPS with é and so on in it without problem. The EPS looked fine in Adobe Illustrator 10 and InDesign CS2. I have already made this test with a mac user that I know that

Re: [Finale] 2007b (or what ever)

2007-01-18 Thread Éric Dussault
The consensus is maybe more like, “Why have they made this? What's the point of this upgrade?” Éric On 07-01-18, at 22:25, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: So, is the consensus that it is, or is not worth our time to upgrade? Dean ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] Short cuts

2006-12-19 Thread Éric Dussault
(something around 130 % should be fine) of whatever setting that is there for each insert symbol (or globally). Maybe that is what Jef was referring to. Éric Dussault ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Irregular Rest Placement

2006-12-09 Thread Éric Dussault
an option to clear manual positioning. Éric Dussault ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Align-Move in 2k7

2006-11-26 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-11-26 à 19:01, Robert Patterson a écrit : There is a reason for this, which is too technical to explain in detail. It depends on what the Display in Concert Pitch setting was immediately prior to upgrading the file to Finale 2007. Had I to convert files to 2007 again (very likely),

Re: [Finale] single click expression tool weirdness

2006-11-04 Thread Éric Dussault
Yes. Still using 1.7. I banned the clunky interface of iKey 2 after using it for a while. Do you mean that it interfere with Finale's own shortcuts? Éric Le 06-11-04 à 03:11, Darcy James Argue a écrit : Are you by any chance using iKey 1.x? I had this all the time (with a different key)

Re: [Finale] single click expression tool weirdness

2006-11-03 Thread Éric Dussault
I did get these things happening a while ago. Don't know exactly how and why it happens. Éric Dussault Le 06-11-03 à 20:25, shirling neueweise a écrit : the problem then just goes away unexpectedly after i get bored of screaming at the programme and abandon its pitiful and malicious

Re: [Finale] Hyphen behaviour in 2006 and 2007

2006-10-22 Thread Éric Dussault
Sorry, didn't want to steal Michael's line! In fact you are right and it works in your situation. What I meant is a totally different situation. Say you have a two syllables on the same note, then you'll need a non-breakable space between the two syllables (option-shift on macs). On Finmac

Re: [Finale] Hyphen behaviour in 2006 and 2007

2006-10-21 Thread Éric Dussault
I succeeded once by going to the edit lyrics window, highlight the space between the two syllable, and change the font to times (lyrics were in another font). It worked. But some of my default files are with Times as default font and do display this problem, so there is something I do not

Re: [Finale] smart shape macro bug

2006-10-15 Thread Éric Dussault
It's an unbelievable time-saver, especially in some music, like with piano pedalling, or smart shape intensive scores. Le 06-10-15 à 08:12, dhbailey a écrit : I don't remember ever being able to make macros for SmartShapes. (WinFin) ___

Re: [Finale] Re: score vs. finale [was: Converting...]

2006-10-15 Thread Éric Dussault
would like improved) to Randy Stokes of MakeMusic. I believe Tobias Giesen is aware of this document also. Éric Dussault Le 06-10-15 à 07:21, dc a écrit : Doing mostly vocal music myself, I think this is indeed one aspect of Finale that could be vastly improved if anyone cared about

Re: [Finale] Re: score vs. finale [was: Converting...]

2006-10-15 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-10-15 à 10:20, dc a écrit : Does this concern music with lyrics, specifically, or general spacing problems? Finale's spacing of music with lyrics is so bad that it's more a question a starting from scratch than improving anything. Tobias is the only one who has something to improve

Re: [Finale] Re: score vs. finale [was: Converting...]

2006-10-14 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-10-14 à 07:42, Christopher Smith a écrit : I have never seen something I could recognise as Score output, but from visiting the Lilypond site (and other clues, like the usual engraving books) I have developed more of an eye for Finale's shortcomings in the spacing department. I am

Re: [Finale] smart shape macro bug

2006-10-14 Thread Éric Dussault
I've had this bug also. Did you use a copy of your preference file of 2006 and renamed it 2007 before using the new version? see this thread: http://tinyurl.com/yzlruv using a freshly created preference file solved the problem for me. Le 06-10-14 à 19:59, Randolph Peters a écrit : Can

[Finale] bug with split-measure and mid-measure repeats plug-ins

2006-10-05 Thread Éric Dussault
I ran accidentally into this bug today. I needed to use the split measure plug-in in a part to split an unmeasured bar that was too long. Later I noticed that the last measure of the part was gone! Here are the steps (100% reproducible for me):A few bars before the last one, select one measure and

Re: [Finale] Speed entry on a notebook

2006-10-03 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-10-02 à 22:01, David W. Fenton a écrit :How so? It is only a problem when Finale uses the wrong enharmonic  spelling. If you hit a black key you get either a flat or a sharp,  according to the enharmonic mapping in place for the key in question.Music really doesn't have to be complicated to

Re: [Finale] Speed entry on a notebook

2006-10-02 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-10-02 à 09:09, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz a écrit :In terms of touch-typing, this is slower because of the reach and the two hands having to be overtop each other. I still disagree with Johannes on speed. The excellent organization of the keyboard in Speedy entry seems to be overlooked. The

Re: [Finale] Accidentals - what's up?

2006-09-23 Thread Éric Dussault
It has been mentionned on MM's Forum last week in a post by Peter West I believe.Éric DussaultLe 06-09-23 à 09:49, Rich Caldwell a écrit :If this is indeed a bug, I'm surprised no one had mentioned it here or on MM's boards yet.  After entering notes for only 5 minutes in 2k7, it stopped me dead

Re: [Finale] Accidentals - what's up?

2006-09-23 Thread Éric Dussault
to be more precise, here is the link:http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=6m=164013g=164117#m164117Le 06-09-23 à 11:16, Éric Dussault a écrit :It has been mentionned on MM's Forum last week in a post by Peter West I believe.Éric Dussault___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Finale's Music Spacing

2006-09-06 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-09-06 à 15:47, Fiskum, Steve a écrit :Spacing is a hard thing to discuss. It comes with experience and understanding of the extra tools available. Did you know that some scores can look just fine by using Time Signature spacing with all of the measures staying at the same width? It really

Re: [Finale] Finale's Music Spacing

2006-09-05 Thread Éric Dussault
It's true that in this case there is something to do by placing a bigger value. Richard's solution works only if that setting is applied to all measures of a system. Another way to do this would be to not let the first measure exceed 1000 EVPUs. I think we will all agree that there will always be

Re: [Finale] F2007 Linked part issues - wiki?

2006-09-01 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-09-01 à 22:05, Eric Dannewitz a écrit :In general, a wiki for Finale would be an EXCELLENT idea. Yet, the online manual (PDF) generally has what I need in it, but the linked parts aren't very well documented yet There is documentation that does a fairly good job. Open the What's New pdf

Re: [Finale] F2007 Linked part issues - wiki?

2006-09-01 Thread Éric Dussault
a écrit :I guess what I mean is a step by step example of how it works. Like, if there was a step by step example of using it. It is touched upon a little in the tutorials, and the manual gives you all the raw info on what it can do, but there seems to be a lot of room for more there. Éric Dussault

Re: [Finale] Fin2007 altering score 'part'

2006-08-29 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-08-29 à 20:22, Christopher Smith a écrit : If you set the Measure Number font to fixed (I use 10 or 9) then it looks right in both the score and the parts. Normally, part staff heights are larger than the score, and measure numbers of UNfixed size change size so that they look too

Re: [Finale] Fin2007 altering score 'part'

2006-08-29 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-08-29 à 21:20, Aaron Sherber a écrit : I don't think it's fair to think of these as new limits. If you liked your old way of working with lots of separate parts files, then you can keep doing exactly that in Fin07, with no additional restrictions. I also don't think it's fair to

Re: [Finale] Linked parts

2006-08-27 Thread Éric Dussault
Tell me if I am wrong, but If you have a 2k4 file, chances are that the parts are already done (as you said), and as they are seperate files, they will likely open in 2k7 exactly as they were when you created it. Now if you want to create parts with 2k7, it is because they don't exist in

Re: [Finale] part name header - linked parts

2006-08-27 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-08-27 à 14:11, Chuck Israels a écrit : Does anyone know how to edit the part name header staff style that is in the 2007 big band template, (or where to find out about it it in the manual)? I don't know about your particular problem, Chuck, but I just discovered that it is

Re: [Finale] Linked parts

2006-08-27 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-08-27 à 15:32, Aaron Sherber a écrit : Just pretend it's not there. And if you create new scores with the Setup Wizard, be sure to unckeck the box that says 'Generate Linked Parts'. Don't you need to generate linked parts first, before extracting as we did in previous versions?

Re: [Finale] part name header - linked parts

2006-08-27 Thread Éric Dussault
Ok, I think I understand now. The numbers in staves shared by many instruments are staff styles, available and editable through apply-create staff style in the staff tool. The name itself is a group name. You can click on the name when in the Staff Tool and edit full and abbrev. names from

Re: [Finale] part name header - linked parts

2006-08-27 Thread Éric Dussault
Checking show staff-style name may even make it more obvious to find out what happens in more complicated settings of staff styles. best, Le 06-08-27 à 16:18, Chuck Israels a écrit : BTW, when going in to the staff style definition, all you see in the staff name entry is the number. The

Re: [Finale] part name header - linked parts

2006-08-27 Thread Éric Dussault
Strangely enough, I looked at the full concert band template and located the trumpet 1-2 staff, and in this case all is written in the staff name, even the 1,2 after the name, no staff style. It displays by default Trumpet in Bb and is fully editable. Le 06-08-27 à 17:21, Chuck Israels a

Re: [Finale] part name header - linked parts

2006-08-27 Thread Éric Dussault
Sorry Chuck, i can't find a template called big band template in the template folders of 2007. The nearest I could find was full concert band. Le 06-08-27 à 18:03, Chuck Israels a écrit : Eric, Did you try to find this in the big band template? Si je ne suis pas deja la, ca va me rendre

Re: [Finale] Linking parts and score in a previous file

2006-08-26 Thread Éric Dussault
David, i believe it is a Mac bug in printing linked parts in 2007. I don't think it affects Finale PC users. Le 06-08-26 à 14:00, dhbailey a écrit : I've printed a page range from a score in 2007 (it had been created in 2005) and there was no problem -- I printed to my 995PDF printer and

Re: [Finale] Cues in 2k7, displaying rests in the score

2006-08-19 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-08-19 à 08:57, dhbailey a écrit : Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 19.08.2006 Johannes Gebauer wrote: I am trying to set up cues in a 2k7 file. In the score I hide them using Blank Notation with Rests (layer 4). However, the rests still get displaced as though there were other notes

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007 review

2006-08-12 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-08-11 à 08:42, Aaron Sherber a écrit : Because not everything is linkable/unlinkable in all the ways you might want. To take just one example, Dennis Collins said he likes to have his measure numbers positioned differently in score and parts; you can't do that with linked parts. I

Re: [Finale] MacOSX Inserting EPS

2006-08-08 Thread Éric Dussault
Finale's eps. Éric Dussault ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Donald Rice's Golden Age font

2006-07-29 Thread Éric Dussault
Just out of curiosity, I checked the link in the font section of Jari Williamson's website (www.finaletips.nu) and the link is no longer valid. Le 06-07-29 à 14:01, Bob Shuster a écrit : After many years’ hiatus, I find myself getting back into the music biz, but I am unable to locate a

Re: [Finale] Hard spaces not appearing

2006-07-04 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-07-04 à 02:54, Jonathan Smith a écrit : Has anyone any clues as to why hard spaces (alt-spacebar) placed in lyrics are showing on screen but don't appear in print or in preview or pdfs. Is this a: Font problem; Adobe PostScript Type 1, or an OS; Mac10.4.2, or Finale; 2005 2006?

Re: [Finale] Time signatures

2006-07-01 Thread Éric Dussault
Hi Kim, If you don't need either cut time or common time abbreviated symbols, I would choose the one I don't use and then go to document options -- Time signatures and set the symbol to 3. I would then set the time signature so normal time sign is 3 whatever and time signature for

Re: [Finale] Dotted slurs...

2006-06-24 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-06-24 à 17:46, Kim Patrick Clow a écrit : Is there a way to increase the hashing/dotted effect to make it more noticeable? With the smart shape tool you can not increase it on a case by case basis. It is a global setting in the smart shape options. Specifically Dash length and

Re: [Finale] Layout for ABA form

2006-05-28 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-05-28 à 13:03, Richard Yates a écrit : Where do you see defensiveness or (most puzzling) attack? I think you may be reading a reaction into my response that is not there. I really did want to know if and how the intent could be genuinely misunderstood. No one has said that they did

Re: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question [lengthy Bailey reply] (cross-posted from OrchestraList)

2006-05-06 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-05-06 à 12:30, Johannes Gebauer a écrit : As I said in another post: I don't like them, I don't want them, I don't need them (tapered dotted slurs). Sorry, no help from me on that. That's ok with me. I don't expect anyone to absolutely need them. I just feel that from an engraving

Re: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question [lengthy Bailey reply] (cross-posted from OrchestraList)

2006-05-05 Thread Éric Dussault
Tell me your trick to get a tapered dotted slur, because it's so easy to adjust the positioning of slurs to look like tie and I don't think it is what David was meaning. Or maybe it is just that a docuement full of dotted ties would be time consuming. Le 06-05-05 à 04:26, Johannes Gebauer

Re: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question [lengthy Bailey reply] (cross-posted from OrchestraList)

2006-05-05 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-05-05 à 04:25, Johannes Gebauer a écrit : That's debatable. None of the editions I see in front of me use tapered dashed slurs. Those which use dashed slurs use the same kind that Finale produces. Doblinger, Schott to name just two. That's one of the problem I don't like with

Re: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question (Eek, I openeda can of worms)

2006-05-04 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-05-04 à 06:45, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz a écrit : I think that stem connections get applied when changing with the notehead tool. It does that for me. Though it would be nice if all the characters had a stem connections library. I don't see one. Dennis Stem connections will work with

Re: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question [lengthy Bailey reply] (cross-posted from OrchestraList)

2006-05-04 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-05-04 à 08:31, Scot Hanna-Weir a écrit : What we really want is easy dashing of hairpins and ties. (I know about making a smart shape and setting a slur instead of a tie, but I wish it were easier). That's one of my most wanted feature. Something I talk about for years. At least I

Re: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question [lengthy Bailey reply] (cross-posted from OrchestraList)

2006-05-04 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-05-04 à 09:19, Christopher Smith a écrit : What would be easier than entering a dashed slur? Christopher, Finale's slur is not tapered like a real slur. It's only a curved line. It simply doesn't look professional. Eric Dussault Finale 2006c for Mac Real-time Finale discussion -

Re: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question [lengthy Bailey reply] (cross-posted from OrchestraList)

2006-05-03 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-05-03 à 17:06, Johannes Gebauer a écrit : On 03.05.2006 Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Figured bass. With a decent font. Personally I wouldn't care about the font, if it was implemented in a way where it can utilize both fonts and the shape designer. I would prefer it to be a sub-mode of

Re: [Finale] RE: [Olist] Sibelius/Finale question [lengthy Bailey reply] (cross-posted from OrchestraList)

2006-05-03 Thread Éric Dussault
times better and more flexible. That would be very cool. Éric Dussault wrote: Personally, the thing I would like the most is having the expression designer completely redesigned. It is so archaic. A very simple tool that would let me design shape with the standards established by Adobe's

Re: [Finale] Adjusting Rests

2006-05-02 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-05-02 à 20:57, Noel Stoutenburg a écrit : Jacki Barineau wrote: Is there some way to force the rests in Layer 1 to move down into the normal position even though there's a layer 2 voice in the first beat of the measure? It just looks funny with them sticking up above the

Re: [Finale] Tie Question

2006-05-02 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-05-02 à 21:47, Jacki Barineau a écrit : I'm having another problem with a needed backwards tie that's not working :( It's right after a repeat sign. The last beat of the measure with the repeat contains an Eb chord (Eb, G, Bb) that has a tie I've shortened in length to go with

Re: [Finale] Tie Question

2006-05-02 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-05-02 à 21:54, Éric Dussault a écrit : have you tried checking «tie end» when, in speedy, you ctrl-option click the measure? or a similar combination if you are on Windows. Eric Dussault Finale 2006c for Mac Real-time Finale discussion - http://www.finaleirc.com

Re: [Finale] Tie Question

2006-05-02 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-05-02 à 21:47, Jacki Barineau a écrit : I'm having another problem with a needed backwards tie that's not working :( It's right after a repeat sign. The last beat of the measure with the repeat contains an Eb chord (Eb, G, Bb) that has a tie I've shortened in length to go with

Re: [Finale] Problems opening a file with Graphics

2006-03-18 Thread Éric Dussault
I remember reading a post about this on MakeMusic's forum, I think it was this one: http://tinyurl.com/p9sqx Le 06-03-18 à 16:08, Eric Dannewitz a écrit : Last night I was working on a sheet which had a graphic I imported into Finale. It looked fine, and I printed it just fine. Today, I

Re: [Finale] Ligatures in Finale 2006d

2006-03-16 Thread Éric Dussault
In fact I was talking about text ligatures, not the music. You can look at the example on the link given in the original post to see it. Le 06-03-15 à 23:59, John Howell a écrit : In fact early music notation is filled with ligatures up through and including the 16th century. I have a

Re: [Finale] Ligatures in Finale 2006d

2006-03-16 Thread Éric Dussault
look at the difference in the letters fi on the title and in the text. One is with ligature character and the othe with the two letters. Le 06-03-16 à 04:17, dhbailey a écrit : What am I missing? I'm on windows, and when I look at the two examples, I see nothing in the first example which

Re: [Finale] Ligatures in Finale 2006d

2006-03-16 Thread Éric Dussault
Thank you so much Christopher for taking the time to do this, I was out today and just got back from work. I will definitely write to techsupport to know how this feature is supposed to work in normal conditions, and what is not working as expected. Le 06-03-16 à 08:57, Christopher Smith a

[Finale] Ligatures in Finale 2006d

2006-03-15 Thread Éric Dussault
I was working on a vocal piece this week and noticed that Finale 2006 is automatically transforming common ligatures (like fi to fi for example). Once an eps is exported into a DTP program, the ligatures are gone. Is this a bug, and can someone replicate this problem? A screenshot and a pdf

Re: [Finale] hyphenation in portugese

2006-03-07 Thread Éric Dussault
Thanks a lot to Adam, Marcelo and Mark for sharing these informations. I'll definitely take them into consideration. Eric Dussault Finale 2006d for Mac Real-time Finale discussion - http://www.finaleirc.com Le 06-03-06 à 23:21, Mark D Lew a écrit : On Mar 6, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Éric Dussault

[Finale] hyphenation in portugese

2006-03-06 Thread Éric Dussault
I am currently working on a renaissance project involving lyrics in different language for different songs. Is there someone on the list who's confortable enough with portugese to tell me what would be the correct hyphenation for these words: teñyo : te-ñyo or teñ-yo descoñyo :

Re: [Finale] System separators

2006-02-21 Thread Éric Dussault
Hi Chuck, Jari's plug-in has been adapted by MakeMusic and is one of the new plug-ins of Finale 2006. You'll find it in the plug-ins menu. Eric Dussault Finale 2006c for Mac Real-time Finale discussion - http://www.finaleirc.com Le 06-02-20 à 23:53, Chuck Israels a écrit : Thank you

Re: [Finale] Copying bug?

2006-02-21 Thread Éric Dussault
Hello Christopher, I have followed your instructions, and I can reproduce the exact buggy behavior you described. The people at MakeMusic probably just don't want to acknowledge the problem, but I don't know why. I did it both with my own template file, AND with MM's default file. I can't

Re: [Finale] 256th notes

2006-02-12 Thread Éric Dussault
then you could first define your tuplet so that the duration change will have the proper effect on them. Le 06-02-12 à 10:26, dc a écrit : The spacing issue is related to the tuplet definition. If I proceed as you say, create the tuplet and then change the duration, the tuplet definition

Re: [Finale] font trouble

2006-02-05 Thread Éric Dussault
I've had this problem a couple of times, and I am note sure exactly how to solve it, but I've succeeded with a combination of deactivating and reactivate the font, double-clicking on it in FontBook, and reboot the computer. I don't remember exactly. Le 06-02-05 à 12:44, Andrew Stiller a

[Finale] Re: Finale list vs D. F.

2006-01-31 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-01-31 à 13:44, Andrew Stiller a écrit :Two things: 1) People who are deliberately rude do it because they wish to get a rise out of people, so as to validate their own existence. The way to control such behavior is simply not to respond. At all. 2) Telling someone they are rude is itself

Re: [Finale] Happy 250th Birthday Mozart

2006-01-30 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-01-30 à 09:20, David W. Fenton a écrit :I'm quaking in my boots at the idea that everyone is saying bad  things about me behind my back! Or on the list! Look, I've been around a long time participating in online  discussion, and I know how to hold up my end of a discussion. I'm not 

Re: [Finale] Happy 250th Birthday Mozart

2006-01-30 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-01-30 à 20:43, David W. Fenton a écrit : If this list were moderated it would cease to be interesting. I've  seen it happen in other forums -- people complain about "rudeness"  from other posters and demand a moderated list. The list becomes  moderated and then nothing interesting is ever

Re: [Finale] Fenton...the throwback

2006-01-29 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-01-29 à 15:45, David W. Fenton a écrit :But I simply don't see what posts like this one accomplish. It would  be one thing if you sent it to me personally, but sending it to the  list seems to me to be nothing but an invitation to a flamewar, an  invitation I'm not going to accept. You

Re: [Finale] Fenton...the throwback

2006-01-29 Thread Éric Dussault
You really don't get it David, was what I meant, sorry.Le 06-01-29 à 16:03, Éric Dussault a écrit :You really don't get David, don't you. Eric DussaultFinale 2006c for MacReal-time Finale discussion - http://www.finaleirc.com ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Font face/size for Triplets MM rests?

2006-01-22 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-01-22 à 15:46, Eric Dannewitz a écrit :I tend to like SANS type fonts (IE: not Time, but Arial). And for Multimeasure Rests, I use whatever the default is. But I thought it would be interesting to see what others use. Personally, I can't see anything but a Serif font in italic for

Re: [Finale] Time signature question

2006-01-21 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-01-21 à 06:21, dhbailey a écrit :If you're just placing the two meters beside each other at the start of the work, how will anybody know when a measure is supposed to get the 3/4 feeling instead of hemiolas in 6/8? With both meters allowing 6 8th notes (or 3 quarter notes) it may not be

Re: [Finale] Time signature question

2006-01-21 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-01-21 à 16:05, John Howell a écrit :And another question:  When one does change time signatures, is it proper always to use a double bar line, or never to use a double bar line?  I've always used it, but I'm not sure why.  Of course I use double bar lines at structural points as well, just

Re: [Finale] Time signature question

2006-01-20 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-01-20 à 16:36, Don Hart a écrit :I can get a beautiful 6/8 *plus* 3/4 using the composite option in "use different time signature for display", but haven't found a way to get rid of the plus sign or add the parentheses (within the realm of the time signature). To remove the plus sign, go to

Re: [Finale] Tempo indication (translation)

2006-01-19 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-01-19 à 15:27, Christopher Smith a écrit : La noire = 108 (les noires swinguées) Christopher I would personally go for: [noire] = 108 (les noires en swing) Eric DussaultFinale 2006c for MacReal-time Finale discussion - http://www.finaleirc.com ___

Re: [Finale] Inserting notes

2006-01-14 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-01-14 à 13:00, Josue Moreno a écrit :Im talking about insert a note betwen existing notes.(i cannot find it in the tutorial) in speedy, position the cursor on the note after the one you want to insert. enter the note to insert while pressing shift (mac). Eric DussaultFinale 2006c for

Re: [Finale] TAN: Intel Macs out

2006-01-13 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-01-13 à 22:45, Eric Dannewitz a écrit :This is indeed good news. I hope they can get it released when Finale 2007 comes out, which is late summer if they hold to what they have been doing recently. I'm curious. Would an Finale MacIntel version (2007?) work with my actual

Re: [Finale] Smart Slurs - Engraver Slurs

2006-01-08 Thread Éric Dussault
I feel this way too and always work with engraver slurs off. I've seen so many people having trouble with it that I feel good with this decision. The engraver slurs need need tweaking anyway. And since articulations can be taken into consideration in the placement I still get some benefits too.

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4 and other oddities

2006-01-04 Thread Éric Dussault
You might find this page interesting. You'll see the history of the Score music notation software. The earliest printings made from Score date back to 1971! http://www.scoremus.com/products.htmlLe 06-01-04 à 16:41, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account a écrit :Since my FINALE class for the Musicology

Re: [Finale] Reverse Piano Reduction (sort of)

2006-01-03 Thread Éric Dussault
Couldn't you use the (octave) transpose function in mass edit, and check the "preserve original notes" checkbox?Le 06-01-03 à 21:13, David W. Fenton a écrit : Yes, I could copy to another staff,  transpose, then copy back to the original staff in a different layer,  but what I really wanted was to

Re: [Finale] extend secondary beams

2005-12-28 Thread Éric Dussault
No, you can double-click the handle and choose the value you want to extend.Le 05-12-28 à 06:23, Owain Sutton a écrit : Doesn't the beam extension tool only work on the primary beam? Eric DussaultFinale 2006b for Mac ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] New bugs with lyrics tool

2005-12-20 Thread Éric Dussault
Finale 2004 of course. The font is Times, so there it should be fine there.Le 05-12-19 à 22:09, John Bell a écrit :Not sure whether you mean AD 2004 or Finale 2004, but I've opened various files from the years 2002, 2003 and 2004 in FinMac2006b. Lyrics seem to be OK . Is it possible that it is a

[Finale] New bugs with lyrics tool

2005-12-19 Thread Éric Dussault
I've had two issues with the lyrics tool in the last few days.1) When smart hyphens is checked, no hyphens are to be seen at all.2) 2004 files with lyrics open in 2006b without lyrics. They are gone! opening the same file with 2006a is ok, but do I want to revert to 2006a? NO!Can others replicate

Re: [Finale] FinMac Sluggishness

2005-12-18 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 05-12-18 à 01:57, Darcy James Argue a écrit :If you are finding that FinMac2006b is slower overall than FinMac2005, definitely mention this to MacSupport. You might also want to encourage them to release a Fin2006c release that specifically addresses these delays. Finale 2006b is faster than

Re: [Finale] triplets

2005-12-17 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 05-12-16 à 08:03, John Bell a écrit :If you wish to enter a sequence of triplets, do this: engage the caps lock key. Now press opt 3, then 4 (for quaver triplets) or whatever. Then enter the notes. This way you could enter the RH of the Moonlight Sonata slow movement in about two minutes! John

Re: [Finale] First Finale 2006b bug?

2005-12-14 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 05-12-14 à 11:28, Fisher, Allen a écrit :I just created a file with four staves, all set to independent time sig and it works fine. Éric, I'd suggest sending this in to support... Thanks Allen, already done. Eric Dussault ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] First Finale 2006b bug?

2005-12-13 Thread Éric Dussault
PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz 1GB Ram Le 05-12-13 à 21:42, Éric Dussault a écrit : First test with Finale 2006b and an important bug! Really, it's the first thing I did when I opened 2006b. Just wanted to test the Time signature tool improvement and apply a time signature to a measure with an existing

Re: [Finale] First Finale 2006b bug?

2005-12-13 Thread Éric Dussault
It is possible that it behaves this way with indepedant time signature on.Have you tried that?Le 05-12-13 à 21:53, Simon Troup a écrit :Hi Eric Can't reproduce that here at all. Eric DussaultFinale 2006b for MacPowerMac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz1GB Ram ___

Re: [Finale] First Finale 2006b bug?

2005-12-13 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 05-12-13 à 22:00, Éric Dussault a écrit :It works fine for me too with a normal setting with no independant time signatures.I rarely use this feature, but when I need it, it has to work reliably.Le 05-12-13 à 21:53, Simon Troup a écrit :Hi EricCan't reproduce that here at all. Eric

Re: [Finale] Font Annotation transfer

2004-10-07 Thread Éric Dussault
Thanks David, it seems to work fine as you described. Éric Le 07 oct. 2004, à 06:20, dhbailey a écrit : You can try to copy the ORIGINALFONT.FAN file and rename it to NEWFONT.FAN (of course originalfont and newfont would be different, but you get the point.) You will need a binary editor

[Finale] Font Annotation transfer

2004-10-06 Thread Éric Dussault
I am using TypeTool to create my own custum music fonts, and I would like to know if there is a way to transfer a font annotation from one font to another. Sometimes when a project requires special characters I create or transfer them into my custum music font, renaming it to something else not to

Re: [Finale] G5-2004 vs G4-2002

2004-08-23 Thread Éric Dussault
2002 is a lot snappier than 2004 on a G5 1.8 GHz (single). Although some people find it acceptable, almost everything lag a little bit in the OS X version of Finale. Éric Le 23 août 2004, à 18:14, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account a écrit : Could any G5 owner suggest whether a G5 dual 1.8GHz

Re: [Finale] Fin2005: 'Before Music' at Staff Systems

2004-08-22 Thread Éric Dussault
, except doing a whole document/batch in one go. Thanks. Éric Dussault Le 22 août 2004, à 19:30, Jari Williamsson a écrit : Hello! I've created a plug-in to access the 'hidden' Fin2005 feature where you can set the extra 'Before Music' option individually for each staff system (the initial

Re: [Finale] German Musical Term

2004-08-21 Thread Éric Dussault
I think it would be more like « published by » (herausgegeben) Éric Le 21 août 2004, à 08:50, dhbailey a écrit : What does herausgegaben von mean, then?___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Re: Tuplet bug in Fin2005 demo

2004-08-21 Thread Éric Dussault
The new tuplets are way better even without Enhanced Tuplets. The feature shape--> bracket - with the option --> never bracket beamed notes - is a great time saver. Éric Le 21 août 2004, à 09:01, Owain Sutton a écrit : dhbailey wrote: Noel Stoutenburg wrote: [snip]> I have experienced

Re: [Finale] Re: Tuplet bug in Fin2005 demo

2004-08-21 Thread Éric Dussault
sorry but I don't see this option in 2004. Could you develop ? Éric Le 21 août 2004, à 09:59, dhbailey a écrit : But that's already in place at least for triplets -- in Fin2004 (and as far back as I can recall, although I don't think as far back as Fin3.5 when I started with Finale) when I

Re: [Finale] Re: Tuplet bug in Fin2005 demo

2004-08-21 Thread Éric Dussault
OK. You probably meant the Auto bracket feature with brackets on. So I just learned something that I wasn't using. A great time saver that I was missing from previous versions. Thanks David, Éric Le 21 août 2004, à 10:06, Éric Dussault a écrit : sorry but I don't see this option in 2004. Could

Re: [Finale] Re: Tuplet bug in Fin2005 demo

2004-08-21 Thread Éric Dussault
Well, auto bracket is indeed the setting that makes this work. I never work with MakeMusic Templates so mine wasn't set up to take advantage of this. Éric Le 21 août 2004, à 10:17, dhbailey a écrit : I have no clue where it is set, because it isn't there in the tuplet options, all I know is

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