Re: [Finale] Two little questions

2006-09-30 Thread Phil Daley
At 01:24 PM 9/30/2006, David W. Fenton wrote: >Curiously enough, my understanding is that the next version of OS X >as well as Windows Vista will offer a similar feature in their >default configurations (though it's not going to be implemented >exactly the same way -- it's going to allow file ver

Humble pie [was Re: [Finale] Two little questions]

2006-09-30 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Friends: Christopher wrote advocating automatically checking for updates; the same facility he describes for MAC is available in Windows, too, so that if one wants have checking for updates automatic, it can be done. I prefer not to have it done automatically, and while I do not necessarily

Re: [Finale] Two little questions

2006-09-30 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 30 Sep 2006, at 2:47 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:It's hard to figure out what's best for these kinds of choices, especially when one OS has a top-level PREFERENCES menu. Is that a standard Mac UI convention? I haven't used Mac enough to know.There is no top-level "Preferences" menu in OS X.There i

Re: [Finale] Two little questions

2006-09-30 Thread David W. Fenton
On 30 Sep 2006 at 14:34, Darcy James Argue wrote: > So yes, on Mac, the Program Options menu is found in the standard > place for all Preferences in OS X. On Windows, it's in the Edit menu > (which seems logical enough to me, but I'm not a Windows user). It's not a Windows standard. "Preference

Re: [Finale] Two little questions

2006-09-30 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 30 Sep 2006, at 2:19 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I didn't mean to imply that Finale used the OS-specific convention for placement of a preferences dialog -- I only said that this was the kind of menu option that it was *appropriate* for there to be differences between Mac and Windows. Yes, a

Re: [Finale] Two little questions

2006-09-30 Thread David W. Fenton
On 30 Sep 2006 at 14:00, Darcy James Argue wrote: > On 30 Sep 2006, at 1:25 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > > I was wondering exactly when MM started forking the menus in Windows > > and Mac so they weren't the same. That seems a disastrous decision > > to me, unless it only applies to something l

Re: [Finale] Two little questions

2006-09-30 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 30 Sep 2006, at 1:25 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I was wondering exactly when MM started forking the menus in Windows and Mac so they weren't the same. That seems a disastrous decision to me, unless it only applies to something like PREFERENCES which are traditionally EDIT | PREFERENCES on Mac

Re: [Finale] Two little questions

2006-09-30 Thread David W. Fenton
On 30 Sep 2006 at 8:23, Chuck Israels wrote: > Just got up and read the list posts. I was wondering where I had > gone wrong, and what Noel found wanting in my suggestions to Will. I > have been using Finale for so long that I operate a lot of it on a > subconscious level, making it a slow pr

Re: [Finale] Two little questions

2006-09-30 Thread David W. Fenton
On 30 Sep 2006 at 7:26, Christopher Smith wrote: > Upon installation (at least in the Mac version) you are asked if you > want to periodically check for updates. If you answered yes, and your > computer is connected to the Internet constantly as many are these > days, then you will be informed

Re: [Finale] Two little questions

2006-09-30 Thread Chuck Israels
Just got up and read the list posts. I was wondering where I had gone wrong, and what Noel found wanting in my suggestions to Will. I have been using Finale for so long that I operate a lot of it on a subconscious level, making it a slow process to remember and identify what I do when I n

Re: [Finale] Two little questions

2006-09-30 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 30 Sep 2006, at 3:27 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Will Denayer wrote: Hello All, I am completely new to Finale. I bought Finale 2007 just a couple of days ago. Congratulations, Dr. Denayer. I think you will find you have acquired top-flight notation software. I find myself respectfull

Re: [Finale] Two little questions

2006-09-30 Thread Christopher Smith
On Sep 30, 2006, at 3:27 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Will Denayer wrote: Hello All, I am completely new to Finale. I bought Finale 2007 just a couple of days ago. I would also recommend periodically checking in at the MakeMusic! website; two or three times a year, there are maintenanc

Re: [Finale] Two little questions

2006-09-30 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Will Denayer wrote: Hello All, I am completely new to Finale. I bought Finale 2007 just a couple of days ago. Congratulations, Dr. Denayer. I think you will find you have acquired top-flight notation software. I find myself respectfully disagreeing with Chuck: you can specify which view y

Re: [Finale] Two little questions

2006-09-29 Thread Chuck Israels
On Sep 29, 2006, at 6:45 PM, Will Denayer wrote:Hello All,   I am completely new to Finale. I bought Finale 2007 just a couple of days ago. I would like to ask two questions: 1) when I create a new document using the document setup wizard, Finale brings me to a new document with the mixers on

[Finale] Two little questions

2006-09-29 Thread Will Denayer
Hello All,   I am completely new to Finale. I bought Finale 2007 just a couple of days ago. I would like to ask two questions: 1) when I create a new document using the document setup wizard, Finale brings me to a new document with the mixers on the left side for playback. I have to select pa