Re: [Finale] MakeMusic received a buyout offer?

2012-08-01 Thread David H. Bailey
On 7/31/2012 10:34 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: David, My understanding is that Sibelius won't be retaining the core group of staff who have helped shape the software over the past 15 years. Instead, Avid will be outsourcing continued development of Sibelius to programmers in Eastern Europe,

Re: [Finale] Ties into second endings

2012-08-01 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Maybe this is a Mac versus Windows thing, but that doesn't work for me. As I read the doc, it seems to me that this command is supposed to do a FULL tie back to the previous note. And that is exactly what it does on my system -- ties back to the last note in the first ending, which is wrong

Re: [Finale] MakeMusic received a buyout offer?

2012-08-01 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 8/1/2012 5:22 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: WordPerfect is very far from the people who originated it (several iterations of ownership, actually) yet it remains a robust word processing environment David, I was with you -- right up to that instant. I'm thinking if Finale follows the path of

Re: [Finale] MakeMusic received a buyout offer?

2012-08-01 Thread Eric Dannewitz
YeahrobustI don't know of anyone using WordPerfect and didn't know the company was still making it... I mean, we know how successful Corel draw is Sent from my iSomething -- On Aug 1, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Craig Parmerlee cr...@acticalc.com wrote: On 8/1/2012 5:22 AM, David H. Bailey

Re: [Finale] Ties into second endings

2012-08-01 Thread J D Thomas
Actually, I had not known about the option= keystroke until Chuck mentioned it. Haven't had a chance to test it yet. If the tie is in the wrong direction, can you use the flip option in Special Tools to get it right? J D Thomas ThomaStudios On Aug 1, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Craig Parmerlee wrote:

Re: [Finale] MakeMusic received a buyout offer?

2012-08-01 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Eric Dannewitz ericd...@jazz-sax.com wrote: YeahrobustI don't know of anyone using WordPerfect and didn't know the company was still making it... Well despite who you know (and their software choices): WordPerfect is a mainstay in the legal profession,

Re: [Finale] MakeMusic received a buyout offer?

2012-08-01 Thread David H. Bailey
On 8/1/2012 2:46 PM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: On 8/1/2012 5:22 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: WordPerfect is very far from the people who originated it (several iterations of ownership, actually) yet it remains a robust word processing environment David, I was with you -- right up to that instant.

Re: [Finale] MakeMusic received a buyout offer?

2012-08-01 Thread Howard Weiner
On 02.08.2012 02:24, David H. Bailey wrote: Why? WordPerfect is still a great word processor -- just because the company that owns it can't make it the wordprocessor everybody uses, due to microsoft's monopoly powers, doesn't change the fact that it's still a great product. That it is.

Re: [Finale] Ties into second endings

2012-08-01 Thread Craig Parmerlee
No, I could not find any way to flip the tie. I ended up just removing it because it was worst than having no end-tie at all. The last note before the endings was second space with the stem up as normal. I didn't override anything. The tie to the right of the last measure before the endings