Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

2005-03-23 Thread dhbailey
John Howell wrote: At 4:04 PM -0500 3/19/05, dhbailey wrote: There is a way to do what you want, it's just that Finale programmers haven't figured out how to do it. :-( My bet is the first notation software which does that (Sibelius, Finale or the newly developping Notion software from

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

2005-03-23 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
David Bailey wrote: As for Dennis' fear of losing access to Finale, I agree, it's not paranoid. If Dennis's fear was losing access to data in files created with Sibelius, I would agree that it would not be paranoid. However, at least the ~.etf file format of Finale is open, and anyone who

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

2005-03-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 22 Mar 2005 at 22:39, John Howell wrote: At 4:04 PM -0500 3/19/05, dhbailey wrote: There is a way to do what you want, it's just that Finale programmers haven't figured out how to do it. :-( My bet is the first notation software which does that (Sibelius, Finale or the newly

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

2005-03-23 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
To my question: If one uses ~.etf as the primary storage format for Finale data files, one will not lose access to the data in the files. . .. David Fenton wrote How successful is the import of ETF files in these other programs? How usable are the programs themselves? Do they lack capabilities

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

2005-03-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 Mar 2005 at 6:13, dhbailey wrote: As for Dennis' fear of losing access to Finale, I agree, it's not paranoid. But copy protection isn't what has done Mosaic in, it's the advancing OS which has left the old code in the dust and the developper of Mosaic decided to pull the plug on the

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

2005-03-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 Mar 2005 at 14:51, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: To my question: If one uses ~.etf as the primary storage format for Finale data files, one will not lose access to the data in the files. . .. David Fenton wrote How successful is the import of ETF files in these other programs? How usable

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

2005-03-22 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
John Howell wrote: But MotU seem no longer to be supporting Mosaic, despite this ability. My son-in-law was smart enough to get it operable for me in OSX Classic, so I can (for the moment) still access hundreds of my scores, but soon I'll inevitably lose them. Dennis' fear of losing access

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

2005-03-20 Thread dhbailey
Owain Sutton wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: Or they aren't even trying. I think Finale, with its unlinked templates and unlinked libaries, is terribly flawed at a basic conceptual level My bet is the first notation software which does that (Sibelius, Finale or the newly developping Notion

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

2005-03-19 Thread dhbailey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm fairly sure that this is a daft question and that I know the answer already, anyway, here goes. I engraved the score and parts for a work which was recorded for CD today. During the recording session, the composer had second thoughts about a number of things,

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

2005-03-19 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:48:02 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way of linking the score and extracted parts so that the changes I make in the score are reflected in the parts so that I don't have to re-extract them (I don't want to have to re-tweak them) The link isn't going to

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

2005-03-19 Thread David W. Fenton
On 19 Mar 2005 at 16:04, dhbailey wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm fairly sure that this is a daft question and that I know the answer already, anyway, here goes. I engraved the score and parts for a work which was recorded for CD today. During the recording session, the

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

2005-03-19 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
Thanks Christopher (and everyone else who has offered help with this), That sounds like an easier way than doing everything twice. I'll experiment with it and see if any problems appear. There are lots of articulations/bowings added but the notes themselves are unchanged, but the parts

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

2005-03-19 Thread Owain Sutton
David W. Fenton wrote: Or they aren't even trying. I think Finale, with its unlinked templates and unlinked libaries, is terribly flawed at a basic conceptual level My bet is the first notation software which does that (Sibelius, Finale or the newly developping Notion software ... will