On 17.08.2006 Tyler Turner wrote:
For this option to not hurt my work, it would have to
have some sort of checker that I could run to hunt for
items with this setting. It would be difficult enough
for me to remember if I had enabled this setting for
an object in one of my own scores several
--- Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Creating the parts when setting up the score would
be a serious
limitation, and cause a lot of extra work later on.
How so? If you needed an additional part, you'd create
it. There would be times that you could change the
staves that were in a
Johannes Gebauer wrote:
I might be missing something, but what is wrong with having items which
can be set to only display in the score, even before parts exist. Ok, an
additional benefit might be to include a mechanism which could
selectivly link them to certain parts, but as a start I'd be
Tyler Turner wrote:
--- Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I might be missing something, but what is wrong with
having items which
can be set to only display in the score, even before
parts exist. Ok, an
additional benefit might be to include a mechanism
which could
selectivly link
On 17.08.2006 Tyler Turner wrote:
How so? If you needed an additional part, you'd create
it. There would be times that you could change the
staves that were in a part and preserve the work that
had been done to the part from the score. I don't
understand how having a linked part from the
On 15.08.2006 Tyler Turner wrote:
This is consistent with what I would have expected to
see after 2 years of communicating with thousands of
users.
Tyler,
I certainly do not want to criticize you personally. However,
MakeMusic's (and in fact Coda's) level of communication with its user
On 15.08.2006 Robert Patterson wrote:
Allen Fisher:
You can also hide it in the score, and leave it in for the parts.
The Unlink from Parts option is grayed out until there actually are parts
present. What we were discussing is setting this up once in a template.
Stupid. Really stupid.
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 15 Aug 2006 at 14:14, dc wrote:
Tyler Turner écrit:
Is it [Unicode support] requested as much as any of the major
features implemented in Finale over the past few years? Not by a long
shot.
Textured paper springs to mind...
From a programming standpoint, textured
At 8/15/2006 06:41 PM, Morris Inouye wrote:
On 8/15/06, A-NO-NE Music
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's not a question of just font but more in data processing. Finale
has to be Unicode native in order to run natively on current OSes.
Sorry, I must have missed this statement.
What OSes? Mac?
But precisely because it was such an easy thing to implement, and
because the benefit to notation is zero and it is merely cosmetic and
only works in Page View, what grates is the big splash such a tiny
improvement made in the marketing hype. It was touted as a huge feature.
Reminds me of a
Phil Daley / 2006/08/16 / 06:51 AM wrote:
What OSes?nbsp; Mac?nbsp; Linux?brbr
All but Windows as I mentioned.
There are zillions of Windows quot;non Unicode nativequot; programs
that run perfectly on Windows.brbr
br
I bet you have never used non English OS, yes?
--
- Hiro
Hiroaki
At 8/16/2006 09:52 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Phil Daley / 2006/08/16 / 06:51 AM wrote:
What OSes?nbsp; Mac?nbsp; Linux?brbr
All but Windows as I mentioned.
There are zillions of Windows quot;non Unicode nativequot; programs
that run perfectly on Windows.brbr
br
I bet you have never used non
Phil Daley / 2006/08/16 / 10:18 AM wrote:
I have run German and Polish WinNT
Oh, OK. My apology. I should had said multi-byte language.
Oracle was probably the first utf-8 commercial product widely used
everywhere. NT5 kernel and later will process data in utf-8, but
Windows display engine
Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 16.08.2006 Richard Yates wrote:
Reminds me of a recent luxury car advertisement that made conspicuous
mention of the heated windshield washer fluid as if this was a major
engineering breakthrough.
Recent? I have that in my very old car built in 1989...
Johannes
--- Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 15.08.2006 Robert Patterson wrote:
The Unlink from Parts option is grayed out until
there actually are parts present. What we were
discussing is setting this up once in a template.
Stupid. Really stupid.
I'd call it necessary. Where
I installed FinMac 2007 Monday night, and I must say that this upgrade is the most important to me since '04, which brought Finale into Mac OSX. The linked parts feature is going to save me a tremendous amount of time, as well as disk space. I was able to open an existing file, set up linked
On 16.08.2006 Tyler Turner wrote:
I'd call it necessary. Where is an object going to
show up at if it's not linked when the part is
initially created? It sounds to me like we'd have some
extremely unpredictable behavior if the creation of a
part didn't initially have objects placed in the same
Ok .. after reading all the reviews and deciding that Fin07 is
probably a good thing (i.e., more positives than negatives, I think)
I shall order the upgrade immediately. Thank you all for the dialog
and wish me luck.
Dean
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--- Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I might be missing something, but what is wrong with
having items which
can be set to only display in the score, even before
parts exist. Ok, an
additional benefit might be to include a mechanism
which could
selectivly link them to certain
dc wrote:
Does anyone know if Sibelius supports Unicode fonts?
Yes, it does. On Mac it also supports OpenType features such as
automatic ligatures, which is pretty cool!
Best,
-WR
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dc wrote:
Does anyone know if Sibelius supports Unicode fonts?
William Roberts écrit:
Yes, it does. On Mac it also supports OpenType features such as
automatic ligatures, which is pretty cool!
Thanks! Pretty cool indeed. The main reason I need Unicode is
precisely for ligatures.
Rudolf van Berkum wrote:
Dennis Collins asked:
Does Finale 2007 support Unicode? This has been on my wish-list for years...
But I see no mention of this on the website.
I posed this very question to FinWin support in July, and their reply was:
Finale does not currently support
--- dhbailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrot
From this we can conclude that frequency of
requests for a particular
feature doesn't always mean diddly-squat in Finale's
prioritizing which
features get implemented or improved.
Just another bit of confidence slowly eroding away.
Calling
Tyler Turner wrote:
--- dhbailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrot
From this we can conclude that frequency of
requests for a particular
feature doesn't always mean diddly-squat in Finale's
prioritizing which
features get implemented or improved.
Just another bit of confidence slowly eroding away.
--- dhbailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
When the head tech-support person calls something a
very popular
request we can only assume that it is a very
popular request and
there seems to be nothing particularly relative
about that. Unless they
rank things by some sort of scale such as
--- dc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tyler Turner écrit:
Is it [Unicode support] requested as much as any of
the major features
implemented in Finale over the past few years? Not
by
a long shot.
Textured paper springs to mind...
Dennis
I'd put money on more people caring about
Tyler Turner / 2006/08/15 / 07:09 AM wrote:
Calling unicode a popular feature request is sort of
a relative statement. Is it requested by people? Yes.
Is it requested as much as any of the major features
implemented in Finale over the past few years? Not by
a long shot.
That's not the point,
--- A-NO-NE Music [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's not the point, tho. All the OSes process
data in UTF-8/16 now.
Even Win2K/XP processes in Unicode even though their
display is still MS
propriety code page.
Yes, it was the point. We were discussing the
popularity of unicode as a
You can also hide it in the score, and leave it in for the parts.
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Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 8:53 PM
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: [Finale] Finale 2007 review
--- Robert
On 8/15/06, A-NO-NE Music [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tyler Turner / 2006/08/15 / 07:09 AM wrote:Calling unicode a popular feature request is sort ofa relative statement. Is it requested by people? Yes.Is it requested as much as any of the major features
implemented in Finale over the past few years?
Morris Inouye wrote:
On 8/15/06, *A-NO-NE Music* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tyler Turner / 2006/08/15 / 07:09 AM wrote:
Calling unicode a popular feature request is sort of
a relative statement. Is it requested by people? Yes.
Is it requested as
On 15 Aug 2006 at 7:55, dhbailey wrote:
As to the linked score/parts, whether it was the number 1 request from
users or not, the moment Sibelius' marketing department began touting
it as a great feature of Sib4, I'm sure the Finale marketing
department began clamoring for it, and it seems
Tyler Turner / 2006/08/15 / 01:13 PM wrote:
--- A-NO-NE Music [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's not the point, tho. All the OSes process
data in UTF-8/16 now.
Even Win2K/XP processes in Unicode even though their
display is still MS
propriety code page.
Yes, it was the point. We were
On 15 Aug 2006 at 14:14, dc wrote:
Tyler Turner écrit:
Is it [Unicode support] requested as much as any of the major
features implemented in Finale over the past few years? Not by a long
shot.
Textured paper springs to mind...
From a programming standpoint, textured paper was one of the
Oh man.
My copy of FinMac207 was scheduled to be delivered yesterday, which has
changed to today by mid day yesterday. I waited all day today.
Checking UPS site for tracking every hour. I just did that at 11:30 pm
and it still said On Schedule, In Transit. Just now, at 11:45 pm,
it turns into
--- A-NO-NE Music [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, it was the point. We were discussing the
popularity of unicode as a feature request.
Huh?
I was talking about data passing. You enter utf-8
character in File
Info under Finale's File menu, which is corrupted on
Page view.
I wasn't
Richard Smith wrote:
[snip] because one of the two comes closer to the way we think about
music. I'm
glad both [Sibelius and Finale] are so mature and capable.
[snip]
Amen to that, Richard -- without Sibelius, Finale wouldn't have become
anything near the program it is today, and without
My Finale experience goes back about 1991 or so. I remember when nearly
everyone used speedy entry nearly all of the time. Finale's new simple
entry is indeed quite good. I hesitate to point out that simple entry
was a response to Sibelius' note entry methods (v. 2004 I believe). When
I
At 08:59 AM 8/14/2006, Richard Smith wrote:
I hesitate to point out that simple entry
was a response to Sibelius' note entry methods (v. 2004 I believe). When
I upgraded to 2005 it was specifically to get simple entry.
Well, Simple Entry had been around in Finale for a long time before
that.
Richard Smith wrote:
I would like the first two beats of the measure to have the second
violin part in voice 2. I don't want the entire bar in voice 2 because
it's a piano part and I don't want unneeded stems hanging around.
For this kind of short polyphony I would use V1/V2 rather than
On 14.08.2006 Richard Smith wrote:
I respond to Finale much as you do to Sibelius. I think it's just that I am
more familiar with Sibelius. Having customized Finale to reflect your own
manner of working is best. Similarly I have programmed Sibelius keyboard
commands for my laptop to
Richard Smith wrote:
Yes. On the keypad (under the second tab) there is a button the toggles
between full size and cue size. Select any note or passage, click the
button and it becomes a cue. Click it again and it's full size.
Disabling the sound (if you want) is a second step found in the
Richard Smith wrote:
I think different people think and work differently and this is why a
feature some like is deplored by others. Although I had almost 10 years
of successful Finale experience before moving primarily to Sibelius, I
much prefer the way Sibelius works. I have frequently said
On Aug 12, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 12.08.2006 Richard Smith wrote:
If I understand your question, Sibelius will allow you to select a
note or entire passage and, with one click, convert it into a cue.
You can also easily turn off the sound in the passage (or note by
On 13.08.2006 Christopher Smith wrote:
If you are using Finale's Create Cue plugin, you get just about everything you
need, except, of course, mirror behaviour. You can turn off playback for Layer
4 on any staff with a cue, assuming you are reserving Layer 4 for cues.
No, that plugin
On 13 Aug 2006 at 8:25, dhbailey wrote:
Curiously though, there are also some heavy-hitter Sibelius users
(admittedly not many) who don't like it either and who use Sibelius'
wonderful key-mapping feature to map most of their most commonly used
keypad commands to qwerty-keyboard commands.
I think I was unclear about the Keypad in Sibelius. Most of the time
(laptop on the go excluded) I use the 10 key pad on the keyboard.
Clicking on the toolbar on the screen is slower. The features I like
to have close at hand are almost all on the top tab on the keypad (or in
the right click
--- Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I was unclear about the Keypad in Sibelius.
Most of the time
(laptop on the go excluded) I use the 10 key pad on
the keyboard.
Clicking on the toolbar on the screen is slower.
The features I like
to have close at hand are almost all
On 13 Aug 2006 at 22:11, Richard Smith wrote:
I think I was unclear about the Keypad in Sibelius. Most of the time
(laptop on the go excluded) I use the 10 key pad on the keyboard.
But I have to use the onscreen toolbar to know what the hell the keys
do on the keypad.
Clicking on the toolbar
Hi Richard,
I may not totally understand the difficulties your job presented, but layers
can easily be reassigned if view active layer only is selected, and all
four layers are not in use (doable, but not what I'd describe as easy when
all layers are busy).
I believe that there is also a plugin
--- Don Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Richard,
I may not totally understand the difficulties your
job presented, but layers
can easily be reassigned if view active layer only
is selected, and all
four layers are not in use (doable, but not what I'd
describe as easy when
all layers
Say two violin staves are to be combined into one treble clef piano
part. In one measure, violin one plays dotted quarter, eighth, and half
notes. Violin two plays two half notes. After the two are combined, the
second violin part has become dotted quarter tied to eighth followed by
half.
On 12.08.2006 Tyler Turner wrote:
I don't understand why this is a problem. Johannes
pointed out that you can change it in the File Info
dialog, either to whatever text you want or to nothing
at all. Doesn't this cover it?
Not quite, although at least it does give the functionality it had
--- Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I do like to have Partitur printed on the the
cover of my scores, but
I do not want it either on the first page, or at the
top of every other
page, like I do with part names. This is impossible
without having to
correct it manually after
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 11 Aug 2006 at 14:43, Andrew Stiller wrote:
I suspect from all this that linked parts will indeed prove invaluable
for chamber music, but not for orchestral.
An issue that I think is highly relevant, but that only a few can
probably comment on, is how the issue of
Robert Patterson wrote:
Matthew Hindson Fastmail acct wrote:
Do you know if it's possible to add a blank page to the part but not
the linked score?
Using the Finale UI there is no problem adding blank pages anywhere to a
part (and not to the score). The problem lies in using a plugin to
Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 06:05 PM 8/11/2006, Robert Patterson wrote:
The
annual upgrade cycle is not condusive to refining old features.
...or getting new ones quite as right as they could be.
That reminds me of the scene in the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup, where
Groucho is the new head of
Richard Yates wrote:
- On a reduced staff, placement and dragging of expressions separates
the
expression and the handle - they move at different speeds when you drag.
On Mac this has been fixed since at least Fin2004. I would be surprised
if it hasn't on Win also. Or perhaps there is a
dhbailey wrote:
And yet they have managed to tweak the HP function with each version
since they initiated it, so there is hope.
HP is a 3rd-party plugin that MM subcontracted. If that's your sole
basis for hope, unfortunately, it is an exception that proves the rule.
The Groucho excerpt
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
On 12.08.2006 Tyler Turner wrote:
I'm not sure I understand why it's impossible, unless
you're saying that each of your parts also have cover
pages.
This is the case, at least in parts which work out that way (ie they
start the music on a left page, or the page count works out that way).
I
On 12.08.2006 Tyler Turner wrote:
Is there any chance that a different overall strategy
would work better for you? I'm thinking that you might
actually modify your templates so that they already
have the parts generated in them.
In one word, no, since I don't actually use templates for most
Robt. Patterson:
- Start a new document, single staff, with 4/4 time signature. In
Staff
Attributes check 'Independent Key Signature'. Then with the Time
Signature
Tool try to change the time signature to 3/4. Nothing happens - it
won't
change.
That one is still there. But it is an absurd
--- Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I think I may work it out anyhow, though I haven't
tested this yet. Is
it possible to unlink a text block from all parts,
even before parts are
generated, so that it won't appear in any future
parts? I must test
this, this might work.
On 12 Aug 2006 at 7:17, dhbailey wrote:
I just wish that Finale could come up with some major new notation
feature FIRST, instead of always waiting for Sibelius to do it and
then see how they can reverse-engineer it and adapt it to Finale.
The speed with which MakeMusic implemented such a
On 12 Aug 2006 at 7:27, dhbailey wrote:
MakeMusic introduces a new feature which isn't quite as right as it
could be. Next year, it's an old feature and we know they aren't great
at improving old features, preferring to pack in new features. Five
years/versions later, that once-new feature
David W. Fenton wrote:
I'm on WinFin2K3,
If you are still on Fin03, one of the best goodies you'll get from
upgrading is autopositioning expressions. So far as saving time goes, I
think this is arguably the biggest improvement since Fin03, including
linked parts.
--
Robert Patterson
Johannes Gebauer wrote:
BTW, my current understanding is that FinaleScript booklet printing is
not functional for linked parts. If anyone can get it to work, to print
parts other than the top part (even that is tricky) I'd love to know.
I feel certain it does not work. FinaleScript
If I understand your question, Sibelius will allow you to select a note
or entire passage and, with one click, convert it into a cue. You can
also easily turn off the sound in the passage (or note by note if you
prefer).
You could also copy a passage into a new staff by highlighting the
On 12.08.2006 Robert Patterson wrote:
That said, I'm not sure why you need this any more. I use CocoaBooklet for all
my booklet printing needs. It's donation-ware, Universal Binary, and works
great.
Because Cocao Booklet needs me to make a PDF first. Because going
through PDF creation in
On 12.08.2006 Richard Smith wrote:
If I understand your question, Sibelius will allow you to select a note or
entire passage and, with one click, convert it into a cue. You can also easily
turn off the sound in the passage (or note by note if you prefer).
Does this mean that Sibelius can
Yes. On the keypad (under the second tab) there is a button the toggles
between full size and cue size. Select any note or passage, click the
button and it becomes a cue. Click it again and it's full size.
Disabling the sound (if you want) is a second step found in the
properties panel. Again,
On 12 Aug 2006 at 15:31, Richard Smith wrote:
If your not familiar with Sibelius, the keypad is an on screen
representation of the ten keypad on a full size keyboard. The buttons
may be clicked on screen with the mouse or selected at the actual
keyboard. There are selectable five tabs on the
I think different people think and work differently and this is why a
feature some like is deplored by others. Although I had almost 10 years
of successful Finale experience before moving primarily to Sibelius, I
much prefer the way Sibelius works. I have frequently said it seems to
think more
dhbailey wrote:
That reminds me of the scene in the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup, where
Groucho is the new head of state and at a cabinet meeting someone raises
the issue of taxes.
Secretary: We must discuss the taxes.
Groucho: I'm sorry, that's new business, we're discussing old business
right
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Subject: Re: [Finale] Finale 2007
review
(SNIP)..That reminds me of the scene in the Marx
Brothers' Duck Soup, where Groucho is the new head
Christopher Smith wrote:
On Aug 10, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Robert Patterson wrote:
OK: I've got two oboe parts on a single staff, and I want to make two
parts for the players. Under previous versions of Finale I would
extract the 2-oboe staff; split it into two staves using TGTools/Smart
Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 05:22 PM 8/10/2006, Christopher Smith wrote:
If you have to make a copy of the score to extract the parts from,
this is the same as before, except all the parts are in one file.
Yes and no.
If you find it necessary to make a copy of the score for extracting
parts,
Robert Patterson wrote:
.
As I currently add lots of cues to parts, and depend heavily on TGTools
Smart Explosion, it seems I would definitely want to create a parts score
in Fin2007. Is there any loss of functionality compared to the old way of
extracting parts?
There are differences. You
At 07:35 AM 8/11/2006, dc wrote:
What happens when you make a change in a fully linked file? For instance,
if I change the position of measure numbers above the staff in a part (as I
always do after extracting, if the part is in bass clef or C clef), will it
affect only one part, all the parts,
On 10 Aug 2006 at 21:52, Robert Patterson wrote:
I'm not sure what MM was trying to accomplish by graying out the
plugin menu in part view. So far as I can tell, all it accomplishes is
pissing off users before they figure out how to skirt it.
It sounds like an unintentional bug, the kind of
On 10 Aug 2006 at 19:23, Robert Patterson wrote:
MM would like you to believe that you can keep you score and parts in
one file, and they have made great strides in that direction. For many
projects it probably is possible.
Why would it not be completely possible for any scores lacking
At 10:10 PM 8/10/2006, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 10 Aug 2006 at 19:23, Robert Patterson wrote:
MM would like you to believe that you can keep you score and parts in
one file, and they have made great strides in that direction. For many
projects it probably is possible.
Why would it not be
On Aug 11, 2006, at 7:10 AM, dhbailey wrote:
What I do notice is the lack of any that old __ bug has reared
its ugly head again! remarks, or any complaints of any new work-
destroying bugs or other major problems.
Is this true? I am VERY encouraged by the lack of complaints!
On Aug 10, 2006, at 10:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 10 Aug 2006 at 19:23, Robert Patterson wrote:
MM would like you to believe that you can keep you score and parts in
one file, and they have made great strides in that direction. For
many
projects it probably is possible.
Why would
On 11 Aug 2006, at 9:06 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Aug 11, 2006, at 7:10 AM, dhbailey wrote:
What I do notice is the lack of any that old __ bug has
reared its ugly head again! remarks, or any complaints of any new
work-destroying bugs or other major problems.
Is this true?
On Aug 11, 2006, at 9:12 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 11 Aug 2006, at 9:06 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
Well, here's one:
They STILL haven't fixed the Chromatic Transposition bug, where
chord symbols do not get transposed from concert key when using
Chromatic Transposition.
Which
David W. Fenton wrote:
Why would it not be completely possible for any scores lacking
multiple parts on one line, say a string quartet?
In my previous post I forgot the most infuriating and most likely
scenario why you might choose to keep a separate parts score: you can't
unlink the
About the graying out of the plugin menu in part view:
David W. Fenton wrote:
It sounds like an unintentional bug,
No, I can assure you it was quite intentional.
the kind of thing that might be
fixed in a version update.
Possibly it will.
dhbailey wrote:
, the developers
figured that
Christopher Smith wrote:
Measure numbers are one, so you would have the
option of finding a position that pleases you for ALL parts (in my
case, not likely!) or extracting parts separately.
Actually, the choice is not so stark. Forced measure numbers affect
individual staves. Measure
They have removed New Staff position from the old Extract Parts' Page
Options dialog box. This is a big problem for some of us who work with
consistent styles.
Steve
On 8/10/06 12:02 PM, Robert Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, there are a few
features of Extract Parts that
On Aug 10, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Robert Patterson wrote:
The only time you can use Fin07's voicing rules is if the 2 parts
always share the same staff: an unrealistic assumption for any but the
most simplistic of scores.
First of all, thanks to Robert and all the others who responded to my
Fiskum, Steve wrote:
They have removed New Staff position from the old Extract Parts' Page
Options dialog box. This is a big problem for some of us who work with
consistent styles.
Did they remove it or just move it?
Robert Patterson, I believe (although the dialogue has gone on long
enough
While ordering my upgrade I noticed that Garritan has a GM product for
sale (at a supposedly reduced rate for Finale users).
I have several questions about this for the list:
1) does it include saxes? I would imagine so since the GM spec includes
saxes, but want confirmation if possible from
It is gone. Not moved. Verified.
Steve
On 8/11/06 1:42 PM, dhbailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fiskum, Steve wrote:
They have removed New Staff position from the old Extract Parts' Page
Options dialog box. This is a big problem for some of us who work with
consistent styles.
Did they
--- dhbailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Fiskum, Steve wrote:
They have removed New Staff position from the
old Extract Parts' Page
Options dialog box. This is a big problem for some
of us who work with
consistent styles.
Did they remove it or just move it?
Different is the best
dhbailey wrote:
While ordering my upgrade I noticed that Garritan has a GM product for
sale (at a supposedly reduced rate for Finale users).
I have several questions about this for the list:
1) does it include saxes? I would imagine so since the GM spec
includes saxes, but want confirmation
I'm glad you can find some joy in this but it has taken away a very
important feature (often overlooked) in extracting parts. Different is not
the best word for it. Overlooked...not adopted...ELIMINATED...yes
eliminated is the best word for it. There is no way to do what has been
done before to
Andrew Stiller wrote:
I do have to cavil at the quoted sentence however. In 19th-c. music,
such staff-sharing is commonplace in orchestral scores.
My comment was not meant as a criticism of the content but rather a
description of the notation. In many such 19th-c. scores, the notation
--- Fiskum, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm glad they made you happy with this feature. I
for one am not happy
with this decision. There is no reason they could
not have incorporated both
ways of approaching this issue.
The more I thought about it the more I felt I could
understand
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