Re: [Finale] Freeze measure widths?

2005-02-20 Thread Jari Williamsson
Aaron Sherber wrote: At 05:27 PM 2/19/2005, Mark D Lew wrote: Now that you've explained it to me (I don't have 2k5), it sounds useful to me as is. I can think of times when I've wanted to add blank space at the beginning or end of the bar without changing the relative spacing of everything

[Finale] Avoiding MS comms S/W

2005-02-20 Thread Ken Moore
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Lew writes: I'm a lifelong Mac person, and I'm not all that computer-savvy anyway, so I'm not very good with practical suggestions. I know this list has plenty of smart PC users who know how to make Windows work without IE. Can someone perhaps tell me what I

Re: [Finale] TAN: OSX Panther Upgrade

2005-02-20 Thread Rocky Road
Rocky Road / 05.2.10 / 04:10 AM wrote: I'm sure you had a good reason, but I hope you realise that Tiger (10.4) could be just around the corner. In my opinion, You do not want to depend your work on first generation anything, both software and hardware. First generation is for you to play with,

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-20 Thread Phil Daley
At 06:26 PM 2/19/2005, Darcy James Argue wrote: Don't forget to run Microsoft Anti-Spyware to clear out all the crap IE allowed on her system in the first place. I installed it and ran it yesterday. No problems. I guess I run a clean W2K IE6 system . . . Phil Daley AutoDesk

Re: [Finale] Music stand and stand light recommendations

2005-02-20 Thread dhbailey
Darcy James Argue wrote: [snip] I saw this at Muscian's Friend -- $30 per light/stand combo (which is pretty much the upper limit of what I could afford): http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=home/search/detail/base_pid/ 452026/ I don't know if that's a battery-powered light, though. Since

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-20 Thread Christopher Smith
On the recommendation of various listers, I got Firefox (Mac OSX) and installed it (if you can call that an installation, as I just dragged the app over from the disk image). It seems to work surprisingly similarly to Safari, except it doesn't choke on certain web pages. It is quite zippy, and

Re: [Finale] Music stand and stand light recommendations

2005-02-20 Thread Christopher Smith
On Feb 19, 2005, at 6:19 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hey gang, Okay, my 18-piece band is going to start gigging soon and I'm going to need to invest in some stands and stand lights for us. I'm looking for recommendations. The stands must be lightweight and collapsable -- not necessarily

Re: [Finale] TAN: OSX Panther Upgrade

2005-02-20 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 22:52:14 +1100, Rocky Road [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rocky Road / 05.2.10 / 04:10 AM wrote: I'm sure you had a good reason, but I hope you realise that Tiger (10.4) could be just around the corner. In my opinion, You do not want to depend your work on first generation

Re: [Finale] Music stand and stand light recommendations

2005-02-20 Thread John Howell
At 6:19 PM -0500 2/19/05, Darcy James Argue wrote: The stands must be lightweight and collapsable -- not necessarily wire stands, but I have to be able to fit 20 of them in a luggable wheel cart. Our Community Band has a bunch of similar stands, but they are Manhasset. Folding base and solid

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-20 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 09:35:09 -0500, Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the recommendation of various listers, I got Firefox (Mac OSX) and installed it (if you can call that an installation, as I just dragged the app over from the disk image). It seems to work surprisingly similarly

Re: [Finale] Freeze measure widths?

2005-02-20 Thread Andrew Stiller
At 06:24 PM 2/19/2005, Mark D Lew wrote: Yes, I knew I had done it with one of the plug-ins, though I had forgotten which one. And TG allows negative numbers, too, right? Yes. You can add space at the beginning or end of a measure, or after a partal measure selection (i.e., mid-measure). And a

[Finale] Change Default Font crash.

2005-02-20 Thread Taris L Flashpaw
Hi all! This is about the fifth time this has happened and I'm getting a bit sick of it. I'm running FinWin2k2b and whenever I go to Change Default Fonts so that I can create the large time signatures that span multiple staves, I get the following error box after Finale crashes. The instruction

[Finale] TAN - Ram memory for a mac G5

2005-02-20 Thread Eric Dussault
I will probably go ahead and buy some RAM memory soon. My G5 works with DDR-400 - PC-3200. Will my computer support any Ram unit with these specs. or do I have to buy a specified type for my mac? thanks for any advice, Éric Dussault ___ Finale mailing

[Finale] Re: Note expression feature request

2005-02-20 Thread shirling neueweise
At 16:46 -0600 1/30/05, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Strictly speaking, that's not true. As I demonstrated with my dynamic articulations library years ago you can use the shape designer to quite easily construct multi-character articulations. but applying them as metatools will create new copies of

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-20 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Bruce K H Kau wrote: Others have recommended Firefox, which would add my voice to. However, I wouldn't count Mozilla out, as it is a more mature program and has some things that Firefox does not yet have, such as the ability to bookmark a set of tabs. OK. I've been using Mozilla for a couple of

Re: [Finale] Music stand and stand light recommendations

2005-02-20 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 20 Feb 2005, at 9:59 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: Are you sure you want to go with battery-powered lights? Yes. It's hard enough trying to squeeze a big band in a typical New York club, without also having to worry about wires from the stand lights getting tangled up in all those doubles and

Re: [Finale] TAN - Ram memory for a mac G5

2005-02-20 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Eric, Macs are extremely picky about memory, especially recently. Cheap generic RAM can cause a lot of problems, including crashing and kernel panics. The problem is especially acute in high-heat machines, such as your G5. Go to http://discussions.info.apple.com/ and do a search for

Re: [Finale] TAN: Internet Explorer

2005-02-20 Thread Owain Sutton
Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Bruce K H Kau wrote: Others have recommended Firefox, which would add my voice to. However, I wouldn't count Mozilla out, as it is a more mature program and has some things that Firefox does not yet have, such as the ability to bookmark a set of tabs. OK. I've been using

Re: [Finale] Music stand and stand light recommendations

2005-02-20 Thread Carl Dershem
Darcy James Argue wrote: As for stands, the saxes and trombones (playing seated, I imagine) could possibly use the low-profile folding cardboard stands (also available in corrugated plastic and melamine). Hmm... provided the clip on the stand light doesn't destroy them, that's actually worth

Re: [Finale] Music stand and stand light recommendations

2005-02-20 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 20 Feb 2005, at 9:59 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: As for stands, the saxes and trombones (playing seated, I imagine) could possibly use the low-profile folding cardboard stands (also available in corrugated plastic and melamine). Is there a standard name for those things? I looked all over

Re: [Finale] TAN - Ram memory for a mac G5

2005-02-20 Thread Eric Dussault
Thanks a lot Darcy, I was prepared to hear this, but I did have some hope that there might be a way to get low cost Ram. I will most probably get Crucial memory. Éric Le 05-02-20, à 14:56, Darcy James Argue a écrit : Hi Eric, Macs are extremely picky about memory, especially recently. Cheap

Re: [Finale] Music stand and stand light recommendations

2005-02-20 Thread Marvin Rosenthal
For my band in south florida (Simply Swing), the only things I provide are the stands for the saxes which have the name of the band, the sound system and the extension cords for the lights... Manhasset stands for the rest of the band are brought by each sideman in addition to a light... They

Re: [Finale] Music stand and stand light recommendations

2005-02-20 Thread dhbailey
Darcy James Argue wrote: On 20 Feb 2005, at 9:59 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: As for stands, the saxes and trombones (playing seated, I imagine) could possibly use the low-profile folding cardboard stands (also available in corrugated plastic and melamine). Is there a standard name for those

Re: [Finale] Music stand and stand light recommendations

2005-02-20 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
In a message dated 20/02/2005 21:14:20 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a standard name for those things? A group I used to play with always called them "desks" Cheers, Lawrence "þaes ofereode - þisses swa maeg"http://lawrenceyates.co.uk

Re: [Finale] Music stand and stand light recommendations

2005-02-20 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hey Marvin, Every band does it differently. This is a band devoted to playing my own original compositions, and they are *hard*. They put in many long hours of unpaid rehearsal, for gigs that might as well be unpaid. The reed players have to schlep at least two doubles apiece. These are all

Re: [Finale] Music stand and stand light recommendations

2005-02-20 Thread Carl Dershem
Darcy James Argue wrote: On 20 Feb 2005, at 9:59 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: As for stands, the saxes and trombones (playing seated, I imagine) could possibly use the low-profile folding cardboard stands (also available in corrugated plastic and melamine). Is there a standard name for those

[Finale] OT: Christo's The Gates, NYC Central Park

2005-02-20 Thread David W. Fenton
I know this is completely off-topic, not even tangential, but I strolled through Central Park yesterday and took about 100 pictures. Most of them are up at: http://www.dfenton.com/Gates/ This is not the place for a discussion of the artistic esthetics, so if you have comment, email me

Re: [Finale] OT: Christo's The Gates, NYC Central Park

2005-02-20 Thread Carl Dershem
David W. Fenton wrote: I know this is completely off-topic, not even tangential, but I strolled through Central Park yesterday and took about 100 pictures. Most of them are up at: http://www.dfenton.com/Gates/ This is not the place for a discussion of the artistic esthetics, so if you have

Re: [Finale] OT: Christo's The Gates, NYC Central Park

2005-02-20 Thread laloba2
Nice pictures David..thank you for sharing them! I am a big fan of Cristo and Jeanne-Claude...heard an interview on the radio and they have a great outlook on things in my opinion! Thought this site was funny...done in good spirit of course: http://www.smilinggoat.com/crackers.html -K I know

Re: [Finale] OT: Christo's The Gates, NYC Central Park

2005-02-20 Thread HERMAN GERSTEN
Really very, very nice, David. I was there yesterday in the late afternoon shooting with frozen fingers. But it was worth it. Herman On Feb 20, 2005, at 5:02 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: http://www.dfenton.com/Gates/ ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Music stand and stand light recommendations

2005-02-20 Thread Jim and Pat Sodke
I've known a few band to use the polystand from: http://www.embeeideas.com/ just about any music store deals with Humes Berg - they make a very similar product. Jime Sodke ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Music stand and stand light recommendations

2005-02-20 Thread Christopher Smith
That looks like the corrugated plastic one I mentioned! Good catch! At less than 3 pounds each, you could take a bunch of these on the subway no problem. Christopher On Feb 20, 2005, at 6:13 PM, Jim and Pat Sodke wrote: I've known a few band to use the polystand from: http://www.embeeideas.com/

RE: [Finale] OT: Christo's The Gates, NYC Central Park

2005-02-20 Thread Keith Helgesen
At the risk of appearing a real Philistine, are these a touch of the Emperors New Clothes, and really traffic diversion banners? However David, the photos are great! Cheers Keith in Oz Keith Helgesen. Director of Music, Canberra City Band. Ph: (02) 62910787. Band Mob. 0436-620587 Private Mob

Re: [Finale] Music stand and stand light recommendations

2005-02-20 Thread Godofredo Romero
Have you considered making them yourself with corrugated cardboard or any other of the materials used in stores and theaters for their displays, all you would need, aside from the chosen material, would be a box cutter and the enthusiasm to do it. I am attaching a drawing of my suggestion in

Re: [Finale] Music stand and stand light recommendations

2005-02-20 Thread JohnBlane
In a message dated 2/20/05 2:25:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a standard name for those things?  I looked all over eBay and the usual online music supply stores and found nothing.  I tried a whole variety of keywords, but none of them turned up the those floor-standing, low-profile

Re: [Finale] OT: Christo's The Gates, NYC Central Park

2005-02-20 Thread David W. Fenton
On 20 Feb 2005 at 19:21, Raymond Horton wrote: Great pictures, David! What did you think of it? Well, I was predisposed to liking it, as I've always liked the Christo concepts (though I've never seen one in person; my favorites are the wrapped island and the fences). However, having seen

RE: [Finale] OT: Christo's The Gates, NYC Central Park

2005-02-20 Thread Crystal Premo
I was fortunate enough to see it first hand. I live right by the SW entrance to the park. I saw the pretty changing colors and was particularly appreciative of one place where I stood in shadow and the nearest gates were lit up with sun. My strongest feeling, though, was that they could have