Re: [Finale] TAN - Use of sz ligature: opinions?

2005-02-15 Thread Mark D Lew
On Feb 15, 2005, at 5:21 AM, d. collins wrote: Mark D Lew écrit: Usually, but not always -- âme>anima, sûr>securus, chaîn>catena, rôle>rotulus. In these cases, it's more than "a consonant" that became silent: a whole syllable. Well, you could say the same of some of the s ones, eg île>isola. An

[Finale] Not enough coffee yet...

2005-02-15 Thread Mariposa Symphony Orchestra
And yes, that should have been the 'Smart Page TURN' plug-in Best, Les Les MarsdenFounding Music Director and Conductor, The Mariposa Symphony OrchestraMusic and Mariposa?  Ah, Paradise!!!   http://arts-mariposa.org/symphony.htmlhttp://www.sierratel.com/mcf/nprc/mso.htm <>BEGIN:VCAR

[Finale] Smart Page Turns...Aren't

2005-02-15 Thread Mariposa Symphony Orchestra
Dear Collective Mind:   Under WinXP(Pro) 2004B, I've seemed to notice a gradual loss in proper performance of the Smart Page Extraction Plug-in.   When first available and upgraded it worked perfectly but then occasionally bad - or totally improper turns began to result here and there.   N

Re: [Finale] upgrading Finale (was: Second MIDI input device)

2005-02-15 Thread Robert Patterson
I upgraded to every version of Finale from v1.0 thru Fin97. Since then I have been upgrading about every other year: Fin00, Fin02, Fin03, and recently Fin05. My reason for skipping was invariably that the benefits did not outweigh the pain. (Fin04 had substantial benefits but also even worse pai

Re: [Finale] Second MIDI input device

2005-02-15 Thread Simon Troup
> I never said I was opposed to upgrading. Only that I was opposed to > upgrading without a sufficient reason. I was just wondering what it was you came across that tipped the issue. > Finally, if I was going to upgrade, I wanted to do it before Tiger > came out. I like my OS versions to be matu

Re: [Finale] Second MIDI input device

2005-02-15 Thread Robert Patterson
I never said I was opposed to upgrading. Only that I was opposed to upgrading without a sufficient reason. The print driver in Jaguar apparently cannot handle oversize custom page sizes. This was the deal breaker for me. Secondary benefits are hopefully snappier response and better stability, b

Re: [Finale] Second MIDI input device

2005-02-15 Thread Simon Troup
> I find under Panther that I am able ... Panther? Did you finally find something that made it worth upgrading Robert, or are you testing? -- Simon Troup Digital Music Art - Finale IRC channel server: irc.chatspike.net port: 6667 channel: #Finale ---

Re: [Finale] Is the finale list working? No messages for a couple of days

2005-02-15 Thread John Howell
At 10:20 AM -0500 2/15/05, dhbailey wrote: I'm just checking to see if this list is working -- I've received no messages for a couple of days, yet when I go to the web-site, I'm still subscribed. -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale mailing l

Re: [Finale] JW plugins for Mac yet?

2005-02-15 Thread Christopher Smith
Only Space Systems? That's excellent news, but not Score System Divider or Time Signature? Do you accept bribes? The built-in system spacing is not hard to understand, it's just stupid. Christopher On Tuesday, February 15, 2005, at 10:43 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: FWIW: I plan to convert JW Space

Re: [Finale] JW plugins for Mac yet?

2005-02-15 Thread Robert Patterson
FWIW: I plan to convert JW Space Systems in the near future, assuming no one else has done it yet. That's the only one of those I use, but I depend on it heavily. If so, I'll send the binary back to Jari for distro from his website. I've never been able to figure out the built-in Finale system s

[Finale] Re: OT: French diacritics (was: German sz)

2005-02-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
In fact, all the French accent marks represent suppressed Latin consonants or syllables. They were introduced in the 17th c. in response to the then widely held notion that all language change represented a decline from an original, God-given perfection. The French accents were intended to rope th

[Finale] Second MIDI input device

2005-02-15 Thread Robert Patterson
For years I have configured Finale for multiple MIDI output devices but only one input device. Now, though, I find under Panther that I am able to hook up my keyboard simultaneously as two different input devices. (The keyboard can switch between two MIDI outs, which connect to my Mac through di

Re: [Finale] JW plugins for Mac yet?

2005-02-15 Thread Christopher Smith
The code is on Jari's site. Not all of it, but he will give the rest to anyone who requests it. Some of us were kicking around the idea of pooling some money to pay someone knowledgeable to port it over, but it's a losing proposition for several reasons. First of all, it will need maintenance.

Re: [Finale] Is the finale list working? No messages for a couple of days

2005-02-15 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
Message received through the finale list.   Lawrence   "þaes ofereode - þisses swa maeg"http://lawrenceyates.co.uk ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] Is the finale list working? No messages for a couple of days

2005-02-15 Thread dhbailey
I'm just checking to see if this list is working -- I've received no messages for a couple of days, yet when I go to the web-site, I'm still subscribed. -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/m

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2005b + Times

2005-02-15 Thread Allen Fisher
I looked at your file, and it is strange, the dialog to pick a font should fire 3 or 4 times, and doesn't. I'll look into it further... Allen On 2/14/05 1:43 PM, "A-NO-NE Music" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > Allen Fisher / 05.2.14 / 11:39 AM wrote: > >> Hmm. Not sure. I just took a couple of fi

Re: [Finale] Opening old file (Newport font)

2005-02-15 Thread Allen Fisher
I've been with the company nearly 7 years, and I've never seen the box. My understanding is that we stopped selling it 2 or 3 years before I got here. On 2/14/05 7:03 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > Did Coda abandoned Newport all together? _

Re: [Finale] JW plugins for Mac yet?

2005-02-15 Thread Brad Beyenhof
I remember Jari mentioning that he intended to release the source code, but I don't recall him ever actually announcing that the source code was released. However, I miss his plugins as well, and I hope that right after he releases the code somebody knowledgeable will pick it up and adapt it. --

Re: [Finale] TAN - Use of sz ligature: opinions?

2005-02-15 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Mark D Lew wrote: I do of course realize that, in spite of its name, the glyph is the equivalent of a double s, not an s and a z. I don't think this is right, a handwritten "z" in old German handwriting looks like a "3" with a sling, and I am pretty sure this is where it comes from. A combinatio

Re: [Finale] JW plugins for Mac yet?

2005-02-15 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Me too!! Johannes Andrew Levin wrote: Just curious, Has anyone taken the original Mac JW plugin source code and made them OS X native? I sure do miss them. Thanks. Andrew Levin ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listin

Re: [Finale] TAN - Use of sz ligature: opinions?

2005-02-15 Thread Johannes Gebauer
David W. Fenton wrote: I'm not sure where you're getting the "sz" from -- that is not what it is at all. If you look at it in German schrift (i.e., handwriting), it's quite clear that it's two s's, one the "f-like" version followed by a crook to a regular lower-case s. I am not sure where this

Re: [Finale] TAN - Use of sz ligature: opinions?

2005-02-15 Thread Mark D Lew
On Feb 14, 2005, at 11:28 PM, d. collins wrote: (I had a similar revelation last year about the circumflex in French, which usually indicates a consonant after the vowel which became silent and then was dropped.) The consonant in question always being an s: hôpital>hospital, hôtel>hostel, forêt>

Re: [Finale] Dumb question: how to get barline at the start of thestaff for a lead sheet?

2005-02-15 Thread William Roberts
Eric wrote: > Um, Document Options->Barlines->Left Barlines Display on Single Staves Wow, now I really *do* feel dumb. But seriously, I looked this up under barlines in the User Manual and I wasn't able to find it. Thanks! -Will -- ___ Find what yo

Re: [Finale] Dumb question: how to get barline at the start of the staff for a lead sheet?

2005-02-15 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Um, Document Options->Barlines->Left Barlines Display on Single Staves William Roberts wrote: Hi fellow listers, For the first time I've been called upon to put together a "fake book"-style lead sheet for one of my students. One of the peculiarities of this format is that the barline at the left

[Finale] Dumb question: how to get barline at the start of the staff for a lead sheet?

2005-02-15 Thread William Roberts
Hi fellow listers, For the first time I've been called upon to put together a "fake book"-style lead sheet for one of my students. One of the peculiarities of this format is that the barline at the left-hand end of the system uses a barline, to the left of where the clef would go, even though

Re: [Finale] TAN - Use of sz ligature: opinions?

2005-02-15 Thread Minke Hylarides \(Hotmail\)
Can I say something too? I just joined this Finale mailing list and I'm reading the discussions with interest. As now about the ß: For my work on music by Buxtehude I studied the old German handwriting, the Sütterlin Schrift. And in that writing I would definitely say that the ß is a contraction,