Re: [Finale] Crystal's problem revisited

2004-08-23 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 23, 2004, at 12:50 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Christopher Smith wrote: Here's another weird convention that I just learned about, apparently directly descended from the original Real Book practices. You know that it is common for libraries to omit the first article in a title for

Re: [Finale] Crystal's problem revisited

2004-08-22 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 21, 2004, at 9:00 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 21 Aug 2004, at 08:32 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: The problem of a repeat symbol already has two solutions involving expressions, but are these viable as addional options? 1) Create the symbol as part of the chord library, again using the

Re: [Finale] Crystal's problem revisited

2004-08-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 22 Aug 2004, at 10:26 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: Have you tried Type Into Score, simply typing :75 WITHOUT typing a root (where 75 is the slot number of the suffix?) I use this for NC, among other things. Oh, cool. I didn't know you could do that. Has that always been the case? IIRC,

Re: [Finale] Crystal's problem revisited

2004-08-22 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 22, 2004, at 2:59 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 22 Aug 2004, at 10:26 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: Have you tried Type Into Score, simply typing :75 WITHOUT typing a root (where 75 is the slot number of the suffix?) I use this for NC, among other things. Oh, cool. I didn't know you

Re: [Finale] Crystal's problem revisited

2004-08-22 Thread Crystal Premo
I know Crystal didn't ask, but I would question the need to put a repeat sign for a chord symbol only. It is standard to the idiom that a chord symbol continues exerting its influence until it is changed or cancelled by an NC (no chord), unless the system changes, in which case you put in the

Re: [Finale] Crystal's problem revisited

2004-08-22 Thread Crystal Premo
Here's another weird convention that I just learned about, apparently directly descended from the original Real Book practices. You know that it is common for libraries to omit the first article in a title for cataloguing purposes, like A Foggy Day is listed under F, not A. But in many jazz

Re: [Finale] Crystal's problem revisited

2004-08-22 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Christopher Smith wrote: Here's another weird convention that I just learned about, apparently directly descended from the original Real Book practices. You know that it is common for libraries to omit the first article in a title for cataloguing purposes, like A Foggy Day is listed under F,

Re: [Finale] Crystal's problem revisited

2004-08-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 21 Aug 2004, at 08:32 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: The problem of a repeat symbol already has two solutions involving expressions, but are these viable as addional options? 1) Create the symbol as part of the chord library, again using the symbol from the Jazz font in the proper size? This

Re: [Finale] Crystal's problem revisited

2004-08-21 Thread Crystal Premo
You guys have had so many helpful suggestions. I opted for creating an expression using the Jazz font because it is a very simple, one-page chart which will mostly likely never be edited after this point. Crystal Premo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale