Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-07 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Jef, No one would disagree with the sentiment upon which you base the question why not just do it right from the beginning? The problem only becomes evident when one considers the number of times different individuals, whether or not on this list, cannot agree upon what exactly what is invo

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-07 Thread shirling & neueweise
I would note, though, that Jef is not correct in his reply to George; the work-around George devised, showing the brace on one system, and stretching it to appear to create a group with to measures of the same staff on separate systems, will work in page view, and might be a good alternative

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-07 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Friends: I wrote to George, in part: if you want to email me a copy of the file, I'll be happy to see if I can find a solution. Since I always check my personal email before I check mailing list incoming messages, I saw George's message he sent to me containing the file I saw the messages on t

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-07 Thread shirling & neueweise
I removed optimization/optimized staves/put brackets on all single staves which were already there since it's for single stave guitar/used Ctrl-Shift to highlight all the staves except for the one at the bottom of the page/stretched it up to the next staff to connect the two staves. nope.

[Finale] Piano Bracket Resolved

2007-02-07 Thread George Ports
Thanks so much to Shirling & Neueweise, David Bailey, and Noel Stoutenburg for their help to resolve my piano bracket problem. George Ports ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-07 Thread George Ports
al Message - From: "dhbailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 7:18 AM Subject: Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket You need to add a second staff to each system. Finale treats each staff in a single-staff score as its own system, and you can't put brack

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-07 Thread dhbailey
h piano brackets, then delete the piano brackets that I don't wan't. I'll send you the page directly since I don't think I should send it on the forum. Thanks, George - Original Message - From: "Noel Stoutenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesd

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-07 Thread George Ports
burg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:11 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket Friends, I've so far kept my oar out of this puddle, because I'm not sure I have enough information to make a meaningful contribution. For example, when George Ports

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-06 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Friends, I've so far kept my oar out of this puddle, because I'm not sure I have enough information to make a meaningful contribution. For example, when George Ports wrote: Is there a way to put a piano bracket connecting two guitar (single staves)? These are not piano staveswill that

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-06 Thread dhbailey
George Ports wrote: Tried it again with 'optimized' and 'unoptimized' in page view to no avail. I usually always enter in page view because of habit. I'd hate to have to create a piano bracket just for this when there must be an easy way to merely hit a button. George So you've defined the

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-06 Thread George Ports
ginal Message - From: "shirling & neueweise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:14 AM Subject: Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket it sounds like maybe you are doing it in scroll view but have already optimized (page view) the score... or in scroll view but in

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-06 Thread George Ports
Yeahespecially since I do a lot of work for him. George - Original Message - From: "shirling & neueweise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:22 AM Subject: Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket I agree with you concerning the right

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-06 Thread shirling & neueweise
I agree with you concerning the right bracket but, it's a must in this case since the customer wants it that way. I'd rather let it go and do it his way. george, clients don't always know enough about notation to best make these decisions... of course a portion of the ones that know the lea

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-06 Thread shirling & neueweise
it sounds like maybe you are doing it in scroll view but have already optimized (page view) the score... or in scroll view but in a staff set in an unoptimized score... you can assign any bracket to any group of staves, no matter what kind of staff. Can't get what you suggested to work. Th

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-06 Thread George Ports
didn't check on the bracket menu to cause this.or maybe document options? I don't think I did anything in document options on this particular page yet. George - Original Message - From: "dhbailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, February 05,

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-06 Thread George Ports
; To: Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 3:39 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket Yes, you can do that -- you create a group of those two staves and select whichever bracket you want -- in your case it would be the piano bracket. although i'm not sure this is the right bracket for the j

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-05 Thread shirling & neueweise
Yes, you can do that -- you create a group of those two staves and select whichever bracket you want -- in your case it would be the piano bracket. although i'm not sure this is the right bracket for the job... unless 2 staves for the same guitar, and even then i would not use the piano bra

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-05 Thread dhbailey
George Ports wrote: Is there a way to put a piano bracket connecting two guitar (single staves)? These are not piano staveswill that make a difference? I have winfin2006b. Thanks, Yes, you can do that -- you create a group of those two staves and select whichever bracket you want --

[Finale] Piano Bracket

2007-02-05 Thread George Ports
Is there a way to put a piano bracket connecting two guitar (single staves)? These are not piano staveswill that make a difference? I have winfin2006b. Thanks, George Ports ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/li