Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-16 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2012-05-16 10:32, SN jef chippewa wrote: > > jari, you mention the following in your review, which fonts are these? > >> ... there are a couple of 3rd party Unicode fonts available for >> chords, consisting of about 1000 different chord symbols. They were available at www.virtualconservatory.co

Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-16 Thread SN jef chippewa
jari, you mention the following in your review, which fonts are these? >... there are a couple of 3rd party Unicode fonts available for >chords, consisting of about 1000 different chord symbols. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shs

Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-15 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2012-05-15 10:53, SN jef chippewa wrote: > does anyone know what these fonts are? > > Final FiguredBass > FinalFiguredBass > Leonardo II > LeonardoII FinalFiguredBass is Ansgar Krause's classic Finale font for figured bass. Don't know about Leonardo II. Best regards, Jari Williamsson

Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-15 Thread SN jef chippewa
ok thanks, that was helpful. does anyone know what these fonts are? Final FiguredBass FinalFiguredBass Leonardo II LeonardoII >I think the symbol selection dialog in Fin2012 goes up to the last >found Unicode character slot, if the range extends beyond character >255. ... If you don't put t

Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-14 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2012-05-15 00:57, SN jef chippewa wrote: > can you explain what is different about this? i did a test and there > are 1342 glyphs available in the notes/rests selection palette if i > set the font for them to times. previously (before adding my fonts > to the txt file you mentioned) SNNotes h

Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Jari, HOLY CRAP. Yes, Jari is indeed awesome. I would never have thought to try something this. Very glad to have a solution to this highly annoying problem! Cheers, - DJA - WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 14 May 2012, at 6:57 PM, SN jef chippewa wrote: > >> I don't come t

Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-14 Thread SN jef chippewa
>I don't come to that conclusion. Try it. wow. jari is awesome. now 256 glyphs accessible in notes/rests and in font annotation (including the ones i couldn't access) can you explain what is different about this? i did a test and there are 1342 glyphs available in the notes/rests selection

Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-14 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2012-05-14 23:57, SN jef chippewa wrote: > but this speaks of cross-platform CONVERSION, i rebuilt my template > from nothing INSIDE F2012 so if i understand right this should have > no bearing whatsoever on my situation, right? I don't come to that conclusion. Try it. Best regards, Jari Wi

Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-14 Thread SN jef chippewa
>Did you add the custom font name to your user account's >MacSymbolFont.txt? All notation fonts must be listed there (true for >both platforms). ah, no, didn't know about this. but after looking it up in some F2005 help files :-) i checked the txt file of the versions i have installed on thi

Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-14 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2012-05-14 21:07, SN jef chippewa wrote: > it seems > finale is "reading" the fonts differently in > these two configuration palettes...? Did you add the custom font name to your user account's MacSymbolFont.txt? All notation fonts must be listed there (true for both platforms). Best regards

Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-14 Thread Fiskum, Steve
I did look at the PDFs but I wasn't exactly sure what I was seeing until I looked again. This is a good find! Never thought to look here for the problem. I'll bet you don't see the same issue in the vanilla release. I'll try to check today. Sorry for your hassle and thanks for sharing this info. S

Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-14 Thread SN jef chippewa
yeah am going to right now, just wanted to get some feedback here first, in case i was missing something. >Have you contacted MM? It's important that this get fixed in 2012B. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listin

Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-14 Thread SN jef chippewa
hey steve, thanks. i tried everything you said but nothing changed, even with quitting / rebooting etc. the problem is that these characters are "out of range" in the font annotation symbol selection (document options) but are accessible in the symbol selection in notes & rests (programme o

Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-14 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2012-05-14 19:48, SN jef chippewa wrote: > i'm not sure what to do. Have you contacted MM? It's important that this get fixed in 2012B. Best regards, Jari Williamsson ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-14 Thread Fiskum, Steve
Have you tried turning OFF the following program options and then making the template? 1. OPEN->"Clean Up File Data" 2. OPEN->Text Conversion: "Automatically Convert…" and "Automatically Sync…" 3. EDIT->"Substitute Font for Missing Unicode Characters" These four items will mess up a project quickl

Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-14 Thread SN jef chippewa
>It's not just your font, it's a big problem with many fonts in >Fin2012. If you find a solution I'd be very happy to hear it! that is a big fat suckorama. i dumped my FANs from 2012 in the 2012 Font Annotation folder. F2012 reads these FANs but seemingly not for characters whose position has

Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Jef, It's not just your font, it's a big problem with many fonts in Fin2012. If you find a solution I'd be very happy to hear it! Cheers, - DJA - WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 14 May 2012, at 9:45 AM, SN jef chippewa wrote: > > i am building my template from scratch in F

Re: [Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-14 Thread SN jef chippewa
(i meant works fine in 2010, not 2012 as i wrote) >i am building my template from scratch in Finale 2012 (tedious work >to say the least) and in the FAN (prog-options/edit/font annotation) >i can't access the character for the quarter notehead in my custom >font (works fine in ***2010***). __

[Finale] 256 FAN slots vs 270 symbol slots... Unicode?

2012-05-14 Thread SN jef chippewa
i am building my template from scratch in Finale 2012 (tedious work to say the least) and in the FAN (prog-options/edit/font annotation) i can't access the character for the quarter notehead in my custom font (works fine in 2012). in the notes and rests (doc options) symbol selection, my qua