Re: [Finale] TAN: Intel Macs out
On 14.01.2006 Simon Troup wrote: can you tell me anything more about this, was it an application that would provide this? No, it is a hack. Basically that functionality is already there, but Apple has deactivated it. The hack just reactivates it. Don Hart has the links. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Re: TAN: Intel Macs out
Hi Michael, Our MacIntel iMac should arrive soon after NAMM, so I'll know more then. I'll look forward to hearing more once you have time to work with the new machine! You've probably already gotten this but I thought I'd pass it along just in case: http://developer.apple.com/transition/index.html Some of this is over my head as I'm not a programmer though I found it very interesting. I'm sure it will make a lot more sense to you! Best, Karen ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Bug Report: Blank Notation Tuplet Bug
Hi Darcy, I have had similar strangeness in 2006 with applying blank notation to beamed tuplets. In my template, beams and tuplet numbers disappear resulting in single notes and stems throughout the measure (no tuplet numbers visible anymore). Is this the same thing you are describing? Hmm... -K On Jan 8, 2006, at 9:11 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Applying blank notation to a group of beamed (unbracketed) tuplets causes tuplet brackets to appear. FinMac2006c. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/djargon Brooklyn, NY ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Inserting notes
David W. Fenton wrote: On 14 Jan 2006 at 15:49, dhbailey wrote: Éric Dussault wrote: Le 06-01-14 à 13:00, Josue Moreno a écrit : Im talking about insert a note betwen existing notes.(i cannot find it in the tutorial) in speedy, position the cursor on the note after the one you want to insert. enter the note to insert while pressing shift (mac). On Windows machines, at least for the past few versions, hit the INS key to enter Insert mode in speedy entry. Move the cursor to the position you want to insert the note and use your normal note-entry method. Then hit the INS mode to exit the Insert mode. But the SHIFT method works, as well, and it's the only one I've ever used. SHIFT-4 inserts an 8th note, SHIFT-5 a quarter note, etc. I wish the INSERT key did not exist. It's a holdover from 20 years ago and really serves no useful purpose today. Some applications use it as a switch between Insert mode and Typeover mode. WordPerfect does this, and I find it very helpful. And Finale is using. Now if you were complaining about the ScrollLock key I could agree because I've never seen any application which made use of that. -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] WinFin2006 PDF
Now that the EPS problem seems to be sorted out Is that true? I have not upgraded from 2005 (and won't until some bugs are corrected - including the EPS one). Richard Yates ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Finale List Membership Questions
Hello, Topic 1) I have been a member of this list since 1997. I recently changed my email address from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This change was confirmed as follows: The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is youroriginal message.- Results: Confirmation succeeded- Unprocessed: Yes, I would like to change my email address to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Prior email address was [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Thank you. John Oblak - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 1:57 PM Subject: confirm b7fa31aff4b35aec3b054f6fad4fb87a085006ec Mailing list subscription confirmation notice for mailing list Finale We have received a request for subscription of your email address, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", to the finale@shsu.edu mailing list. Topic 2) After I changed my email address I submitted a question to the membership regarding pipe band snare drum notation. This message was rejected with the following message: Your mail to 'Finale' with the subject Pipe Band SD PlaybackIs being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.The reason it is being held: Post by non-member to a members-only list Topic 3) Here isthe originalquestion I attempted to send to the other members: - Original Message - From: John Oblak To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 2:29 PM Subject: Pipe Band SD Playback Greetings, I have been using Finale version 2003 to print pipe band bagpipe and snare drum music. I use a regular five-line staff for the bagpipe, and a one-line staff for the snare drum. I only notate the tune of the bagpipe part and not the intermediate grace notes, as the part is only used as a reference for the drummers. The pipe band community typically uses this one-line score for the drum, placing the right-hand notes above the line, and the left-hand notes below the line. The drum music itself is fairly intricate, containing many grace notes, sextuplets, rolls, etc. This system has worked well for me for printing out the snare drum and bagpipe parts. The snare drum parts print out properly, but I have never found a way to playback the snare drum parts. I have never found anything in the documentation on how to make the notes above and below the one-line to playback with the sound of a single snare drum sound. Is there some way that I can set up this notation so that Finale 2003 so I can playback the above notes as snare drum sounds? At present Finale 2003 plays the notation above and below the line as two different pitches, a minor third apart. When I wrote Finale support about this, I was basically told to read the manual. I have never found an answer to this question in the manual. Does anyone have any suggestions? I had thought of creating another staff, one that has normal snare drum notation, hiding it, and using it only for playback, while printing the one-line staff I have been creating. I hesitate to go to a newer version of Finale unless it would add the above capability. Does a later version of Finale provide the above capability? Thank you for any assistance you can provide. John OblakWebmaster, www.scottishfiddling.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Topic 4) Can you tell me if I need to do anything else to have my question sent to the other members? Thank you. John Oblak ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale List Membership Questions
John Oblak wrote: [snip] The snare drum parts print out properly, but I have never found a way to playback the snare drum parts. I have never found anything in the documentation on how to make the notes above and below the one-line to playback with the sound of a single snare drum sound. Is there some way that I can set up this notation so that Finale 2003 so I can playback the above notes as snare drum sounds? At present Finale 2003 plays the notation above and below the line as two different pitches, a minor third apart. [snip] Percussion maps in Finale are one of the most arcane and unintuitive aspects of the program. Maybe 2007 will sort this out! We can always hope. Here is the basic process you need to go through (print this out and follow it carefully): 1) Using the Staff Tool, set the Notation Style type to be percussion, then click on SELECT just to the right of the Notation Style selection box; 2) in the ensuing dialog, you can choose any method of entry you want. I find General Midi Entry and Playback to work fine. Highlight this and click EDIT. 3) you are presented with a dialog whereby you can select different notes and staff positions and playback sounds for whatever you want. Even though you may be using a 1-line staff, Finale always thinks in terms of a 5-line staff, so picture your 1-line as the middle line of the staff. 4) The left-hand column is the list of midi notes that you will play if you happen to want to use midi-entry. If you won't be using midi-entry, then you can safely ignore this column. The next column to the right is the list of the midi note numbers which will be used for playback. You can redefine this to be anything you want, using the boxes in the right-hand section of the dialog. The third column in from the left shows the noteheads which will be used and where on the staff they will appear. This can all be altered using the boxes on the right. 5) what you define in this dialog is unique to this particular file, so don't worry about messing up other files if you change anything here. Pick a note, any note, it doesn't matter, since you'll be changing much about it, which uses the noteheads you want. If you want to use the same sorts of noteheads as melodic instruments use, then click on a note that shows those noteheads. 6) regular snare sounds playback as D2 in a standard GM drum kit, so enter that in the box on the right labeled Playback Note. Now set the staff position you want. The middle line is Staff Position 7, so calculate from there to the space you want -- immediately below the middle line is Staff Position 6, immediately above is Staff Position 8. Set it as you wish. 7) repeat step 6 for the other note you want -- it is perfectly okay to set the same playback sound for multiple percussion notes. You can rename the Note Definition: Name: or you can leave it, it's immaterial at this point. 8) once you've set the notes you want in this manner, click on DONE, which returns you to the list of various playback/entry systems, with the one you just edited highlighted. Click on SELECT. This returns you to the score. 9) one final step which many people often overlook -- you need to go to the Window menu and select Instrument List and move to the percussion staff you've just worked so hard to set up and set it to be PERCUSSION -- it should show Channel 10. 10) Now comes the heart-breaking aspect -- your carefully constructed percussion staff which you have just re-set may now look totally screwed up, and may well need to be reentered by hand. Sometimes you can simply move the old notes to a new staff and then move them back, or you may just have to bite the bullet and re-enter it all. If this system has worked for you, be sure to set up your percussion staff (or staves) before you begin entering any notes, and you'll save yourself a lot of frustration. Good luck! Now you can understand why MakeMusic Tech support told you basically to read the manual -- They might actually have to figure out how to use percussion staves themselves, and this is something that works best in graveyards at midnight in the light of the full moon, when you have laid out the bodies of 10 dead black cats in a ring around you and you are wearing a dark hooded robe and chanting percussion ghosts BEGONE! over and over while performing the ritual I outlined. :-) -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale List Membership Questions
At 08:33 AM 1/15/2006, John Oblak wrote: The snare drum parts print out properly, but I have never found a way to playback the snare drum parts. I have never found anything in the documentation on how to make the notes above and below the one-line to playback with the sound of a single snare drum sound. Is there some way that I can set up this notation so that Finale 2003 so I can playback the above notes as snare drum sounds? Sure. Select the staff tool and double-click the handle on the percussion staff. Change 'Notation Style' to percussion. Click the Select button. Now things get a little hairy, because you've got to deal with percussion maps. Since you only need snare drum, I would suggest the following procedure. (You haven't indicated what entry method you use for notes; this method will work for Speedy or Simple.) Click Create. Scroll down to MIDI pitch 69 (A4). On the right, under Note Definition, set the note name to 'LH snare', Playback note to 38, Staff position to 5. Check the 'Highlighted note' checkbox. Now scroll to MIDI pitch 72 (C5). Set note name to 'RH snare', Playback note to 38, Staff position to 5. Check the 'Highlighted note' checkbox. Click Done and Select. Back in the Staff Attributes box, check 'Notehead font' under Independent Elements, click 'Select', and choose Maestro Percussion. Click OK to close the Staff Attributes box. What you've just done is tell Finale that notes entered as A4 or C5 (below or above the single line staff) should playback as MIDI note 38, which is a snare drum in General MIDI percussion. The notes may not sound like that *as you enter them*, but they will on playback. The last thing you have to do is make sure that your staff is set up to playback on MIDI channel 10, which is where the percussion is. Choose Window | Instrument List. On the line where your snare staff is, choose 'Percussion' under Instrument. The number under Channel should now say 10; if it doesn't, change it to 10. (The entry at the end of the row, under GM, will probably still say something like 'Acoustic Grand Piano'. This doesn't matter.) And that should do it. I just created a sample file using my own instructions, and the notes played back as snares, as expected. Unfortunately, I have a newer version of Finale, so you wouldn't be able to open the file -- but the procedure works the same in 2003. Can you tell me if I need to do anything else to have my question sent to the other members? As you can tell, your message went out just fine. I guess there may have been a time delay between your change request and when that information became active, and your first message was sent out before the list software realized you had changed your address. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale List Membership Questions
At 09:11 AM 1/15/2006, dhbailey wrote: enter that in the box on the right labeled Playback Note. Now set the staff position you want. The middle line is Staff Position 7, so calculate from there to the space you want -- immediately below the middle line is Staff Position 6, immediately above is Staff Position 8. Actually, the middle line is 6. Above is 7, and below is 5. 10) Now comes the heart-breaking aspect -- your carefully constructed percussion staff which you have just re-set may now look totally screwed up, and may well need to be reentered by hand. If the notes were originally entered as treble A and C, and if you follow the instructions in my other post (setting MIDI pitches A4 and C5 to playback as 38), then everything should be fine. If the notes were originally entered using two different pitches, then set up *those* pitches to playback as 38 instead. (This is where I differ from David Bailey when he writes Pick a note, any note, it doesn't matter. If you want to avoid re-entering notes, you want to be sure to map the notes you actually entered [like A4 and C5] to the note you want to playback [38].) Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] RE: percussion maps (was: List Membership)
On Jan 15, 2006, at 9:11 AM, dhbailey wrote: Percussion maps in Finale are one of the most arcane and unintuitive aspects of the program. Maybe 2007 will sort this out! We can always hope. When I brought this issue up to MacSupport a few months ago, the response was hostile and uncomprehending. I don't think, therefore, that there is any realistic hope for change in this area in 2K7, unless complaints are both frequent and angry before then. A word to the wise. FWIW, my request was that a) one should not have to specify a separate staff type for percussion insts. and b) that if I create an expression saying (for instance) snare drum or Snare Drum or SD or s. d. or whatever, that the note to which it is attached, and all subsequent notes on the same line or space, will automatically, and with no further effort, produce a snare drum sound up to whatever point the expression is cancelled or overridden. Likewise, staff names such as tomtoms should be playback-configurable with no more effort than, say, flute. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Inserting notes
On 15 Jan 2006 at 7:04, dhbailey wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: I wish the INSERT key did not exist. It's a holdover from 20 years ago and really serves no useful purpose today. Some applications use it as a switch between Insert mode and Typeover mode. WordPerfect does this, and I find it very helpful. Well, I find that completely useless. I never need to type over, ever. That was a useful function in the old days of text-only input screens with fixed-pitch fonts onscreen, but now it really serves no useful purpose. My bet is that 90% of the time the INSERT key gets hit and switches between typeover and insert mode, it's a mistake, and frustrates users. And Finale is using. Now if you were complaining about the ScrollLock key I could agree because I've never seen any application which made use of that. It's a relic of the same era of input terminal as the insert key. It serves just as little purpose as the insert key. -- David W. Fentonhttp://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Inserting notes
David W. Fenton wrote: My bet is that 90% of the time the INSERT key gets hit and switches between typeover and insert mode, it's a mistake, and frustrates users. There's a way to avoid this, in Word at leastmake a macro to switch to Insert mode, and assign it to the Insert key. That way, instead of toggling to Overwrite, it gets kept as Insert. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Inserting notes
David W. Fenton wrote: On 15 Jan 2006 at 7:04, dhbailey wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: I wish the INSERT key did not exist. It's a holdover from 20 years ago and really serves no useful purpose today. Some applications use it as a switch between Insert mode and Typeover mode. WordPerfect does this, and I find it very helpful. Well, I find that completely useless. I never need to type over, ever. That was a useful function in the old days of text-only input screens with fixed-pitch fonts onscreen, but now it really serves no useful purpose. My bet is that 90% of the time the INSERT key gets hit and switches between typeover and insert mode, it's a mistake, and frustrates users. And Finale is using. Now if you were complaining about the ScrollLock key I could agree because I've never seen any application which made use of that. It's a relic of the same era of input terminal as the insert key. It serves just as little purpose as the insert key. I've got an MS keyboard which has Print Screen, SysRq and Insert all combined onto one key, as are Pause/Break/Scroll Lock. This, at least, means each physical key has a useful purpose (Print Screen for screenshots, and Windows+Pause/Break to bring up System Properties) ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Beaming question
I've forgotten how to prevent Finale from beaming across all 4 eight note beats when writing two eight notes, an eight note rest, then an eight note. I'm sure it's something in the time signature set up, but what? I'm in 4/4. I do remember how to split the beam with the slash key. P.S. Has anyone purchased Bill Duncan's articulation fonts? They do look quite wonderful. Mike Greensill - 17 powermac - Finale 2006b www.mikegreensill.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Beaming question
At 03:11 PM 1/15/2006, Mike Greensill wrote: I've forgotten how to prevent Finale from beaming across all 4 eight note beats when writing two eight notes, an eight note rest, then an eight note. Options | Document Options | Beams. Uncheck 'Include rests when beaming in groups of four'. Note that this is a document-wide option, and you have to rebeam existing music to get existing beams to break. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Beaming question
It's in Options:Document Options:Beamimg. There's a check box to beam 8th notes in groups of 4 in common time, also one to include rests in the groups or not. (And you should upgrade to 2006c). John Roberts On 1/15/06 3:11 PM, Mike Greensill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've forgotten how to prevent Finale from beaming across all 4 eight note beats when writing two eight notes, an eight note rest, then an eight note. I'm sure it's something in the time signature set up, but what? I'm in 4/4. I do remember how to split the beam with the slash key. P.S. Has anyone purchased Bill Duncan's articulation fonts? They do look quite wonderful. Mike Greensill - 17 powermac - Finale 2006b www.mikegreensill.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] WinFin2006 PDF
Now that the EPS problem seems to be sorted out Is that true? I have not upgraded from 2005 (and won't until some bugs are corrected - including the EPS one). Yes, EPS export is finally working on Windows. I'm able to open Finale EPS files in Illustrator 10 when I do an export from 2006b on my Windows XP SP2 system. Another nice, underhyped bug fix in 2006b is that smart shape dashed lines are now WYSIWYG. They no longer end in different places on the page and on screen, and they always end at the same place on screen no matter the zoom percentage. I haven't seen any change to the on-screen appearance of PDF staff lines, though. Michael ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Beaming question
Options | Document Options | Beams Thanks guys, that's it! If only I could remember settings in Finale as well as tunes I learnt 40 years ago. Mike Greensill www.mikegreensill.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Please delete - Just Testing
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[Finale] testing please delete
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Re: [Finale] WinFin2006 PDF
Yes, EPS export is finally working on Windows. I'm able to open Finale EPS files in Illustrator 10 when I do an export from 2006b on my Windows XP SP2 system. I am surprised that there was not more hoopla here about that. What about the staff percentage bug? (the one where dragging of expressions and the placement of articulations and is out of sync with the cursor in proportion to the size of the reduction. If that is fixed then I will be happy once again and upgrade. Richard ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] WinFin2006 PDF
Michael, no problems with PDFs here (WinFin2006c). Do you mean when you display a whole page? This will depend on your screen resolution (1600x1200 here). My PDFs or ok to look, if I enlarge them the staff lines are fine, and printing them is no problem and looking fine. I guess if you have a smaller display resolution the lines might be uglier, but this is a mathematical problem - the lower the resolution the uglier the lines, I think. I don't see how Adobe could get that better, I should think it either gets a 0 or an 1 when interpreting the image information, and even if PDFs got some special screen preview as EPS, there is no garantee to get them right on the screen. Kurt At 21:51 15.01.2006, you wrote: I haven't seen any change to the on-screen appearance of PDF staff lines, though. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Current Date
Dear All, Im trying to enter the current date in a file (fin 2005) windows XP, when I select Text Inserts, I find all choices are grayed out My question is: how can I select the current date ? Can anyone please help? Many Thanks, George Galway Manchester UK ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Current Date
On 1/15/06, George Galway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to enter the current date in a file (fin 2005) windows XP, when I select Text – Inserts, I find all choices are 'grayed out' My question is: how can I select the 'current date' ? Can anyone please help? Many Thanks, When you're in the Text tool, you need to double-click somewhere to create a new text box before you can insert the date into it. -- Brad Beyenhof Real-time Finale discussion: http://www.finaleirc.com my blog: http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. ~ Igor Stravinsky ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Inserting notes
You may be curious to know that on Mac keyboards, the INS key doesn't exist. Instead we have help (where the INS key is on PC keyboards). We also have F13 through F16 instead of print screen etc. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY On 14 Jan 2006, at 4:24 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I wish the INSERT key did not exist. It's a holdover from 20 years ago and really serves no useful purpose today. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] RE: percussion maps (was: List Membership)
Hi Andrew, Please forward this request to Robert Piéchauld. This sounds like a job for Human Playback (which already automatically interprets pizz and arco,) etc. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY On 15 Jan 2006, at 1:12 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: On Jan 15, 2006, at 9:11 AM, dhbailey wrote: Percussion maps in Finale are one of the most arcane and unintuitive aspects of the program. Maybe 2007 will sort this out! We can always hope. When I brought this issue up to MacSupport a few months ago, the response was hostile and uncomprehending. I don't think, therefore, that there is any realistic hope for change in this area in 2K7, unless complaints are both frequent and angry before then. A word to the wise. FWIW, my request was that a) one should not have to specify a separate staff type for percussion insts. and b) that if I create an expression saying (for instance) snare drum or Snare Drum or SD or s. d. or whatever, that the note to which it is attached, and all subsequent notes on the same line or space, will automatically, and with no further effort, produce a snare drum sound up to whatever point the expression is cancelled or overridden. Likewise, staff names such as tomtoms should be playback-configurable with no more effort than, say, flute. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
RE: [Finale] Current Date
Brad - It worked a treat! Thank You! George -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Beyenhof Sent: 15 January 2006 23:12 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] Current Date On 1/15/06, George Galway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to enter the current date in a file (fin 2005) windows XP, when I select Text - Inserts, I find all choices are 'grayed out' My question is: how can I select the 'current date' ? Can anyone please help? Many Thanks, When you're in the Text tool, you need to double-click somewhere to create a new text box before you can insert the date into it. -- Brad Beyenhof Real-time Finale discussion: http://www.finaleirc.com my blog: http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. ~ Igor Stravinsky ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] OT: Scanner Slowdown PC
I have an older comport CANON scanner that has suddenly slowed to an absolute crawl. This is very odd as it was very rapid as short as a couple of weeks ago. Any ideas? Henry Howey Professor of Music Sam Houston State University Box 2208 Huntsville, TX 77341 (936) 294-1364 http://www.shsu.edu/~music/faculty/howey.html Owner of FINALE Discussion List - This email was sent using SamMail. Sam Houston State University http://www.shsu.edu/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Inserting notes
At 6:13 PM -0500 1/15/06, Darcy James Argue wrote: You may be curious to know that on Mac keyboards, the INS key doesn't exist. Instead we have help (where the INS key is on PC keyboards). We also have F13 through F16 instead of print screen etc. We do? Must be on the full sized keyboards. My PowerBook has neither help nor F13-F16. Of course I don't have a numerical keypad, either, but the Number Lock function actually works quite well. John -- John Susie Howell Virginia Tech Department of Music Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
