Re: [Finale] Smart shape and different time sigs

2007-12-01 Thread Raimund Lintzen
Try clicking just once more into the same measure in case the first click won't bring you the smart shapes. Raimund Lintzen Giuliano Forghieri schrieb: Something related: am I the only one that can't get smart shapes copied along with the rest of the music? If I copy by clicking and dragging

Re: [Finale] Smart shape and different time sigs

2007-12-01 Thread Giuliano Forghieri
Thanks Raymund, but that works only with dragging, not with the usual copy and paste commands. I have tried opening two windows of the same document, but in this case neither dragging nor copy and paste work for smart shapes. Again, am I missing something? Luckily, this morning I have

Re: [Finale] Smart shape and different time sigs

2007-12-01 Thread Giuliano Forghieri
Something related: am I the only one that can't get smart shapes copied along with the rest of the music? If I copy by clicking and dragging they get copied, but if use ctrl-c or ctrl-shift-c then ctrl-v everything gets copied but smart shapes. Of course the settings in the Items To Copy

[Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-01 Thread Daniel Wolf
Trying to figure out the future of Finale -- and MakeMusic's plans for the product -- without any concrete internal information is more like reading tea leaves than serious analysis, but the tea leaves we've been left appear to me to be gathering in an inauspicious pattern. In the years

Re: [Finale] Refresh my memory on parts...

2007-12-01 Thread Ken Moore
Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 28, 2007, at 4:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone here please refresh my memory on part extraction? I would like to set my parts to come out with 10 staves on a page, You're right, there is no obvious way. You have to

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-01 Thread dhbailey
Daniel Wolf wrote: Trying to figure out the future of Finale -- and MakeMusic's plans for the product -- without any concrete internal information is more like reading tea leaves than serious analysis, but the tea leaves we've been left appear to me to be gathering in an inauspicious pattern.

Re: [Finale] Smart shape and different time sigs

2007-12-01 Thread Robert Patterson
Giuliano Forghieri wrote: Robert: what about a new addition to your Mass Copy plug-in, something like a check box for copy notes as well? It is quite regrettable that MM has ruined the copying of smart shapes. (It used to work brainlessly.) Unfortunately, copying entries is far beyond

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-12-01 Thread Ken Moore
John Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. Those of us using laptops don't have Page Up/Down keys, but we do have one additional key that my add-on full keyboard does not have, an fn key (Function?), which when held down lets us move one page at a time (depending on the zoom in effect) just

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-01 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Daniel Wolf wrote: Trying to figure out the future of Finale -- and MakeMusic's plans for the product -- without any concrete internal information is more like reading tea leaves than serious analysis, but the tea leaves we've been left appear to me to be gathering in an inauspicious pattern.

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-01 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:07 AM 12/1/2007, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Daniel Wolf wrote: Today (the first of December 2007), I received another tea leaf: for the first time, a bit of advertisement for Finale 2008 from the Finale dealer here in Germany. Compared to my past experience with Finale, this is actually

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-01 Thread John Roberts
Er, isn't 2008 the current version? I'm not using it myself but it seems to me I've been getting upgrade offers for quite a while, gradually getting more expenssive. JR On 12/1/07 11:07 AM, Noel Stoutenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Wolf wrote: Trying to figure out the future of

[Finale] Re: Finale upgrades

2007-12-01 Thread Nick Carter
dhbailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... In the U.S. I doubt that anybody buys upgrades from local dealers. And I'll also bet that most first-time Finale purchases are from on-line retailers. I have yet to see a current version of any music software in To my knowledge, Finale upgrades are only

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-01 Thread dhbailey
Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Daniel Wolf wrote: Trying to figure out the future of Finale -- and MakeMusic's plans for the product -- without any concrete internal information is more like reading tea leaves than serious analysis, but the tea leaves we've been left appear to me to be gathering in

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-01 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:46 PM 12/1/2007, dhbailey wrote: last-minute emergency purchases. And extra parts for this 3-minute work, parts which we get the 'privilege' of printing? $2.95 each! It's not really an encouragement that Finale's fortunes are being made. Maybe I'm not understanding, but why would you

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-01 Thread Jari Williamsson
Daniel Wolf wrote: Today (the first of December 2007), I received another tea leaf: for the first time, a bit of advertisement for Finale 2008 from the Finale dealer here in Germany. This is an astonishly late date for this notice Do you mean the German version from Klemm Music? If that's

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-01 Thread dhbailey
Aaron Sherber wrote: At 03:46 PM 12/1/2007, dhbailey wrote: last-minute emergency purchases. And extra parts for this 3-minute work, parts which we get the 'privilege' of printing? $2.95 each! It's not really an encouragement that Finale's fortunes are being made. Maybe I'm not

Re: [Finale] Smart shape and different time sigs

2007-12-01 Thread Giuliano Forghieri
At 14.53 01/12/2007, Robert Patterson wrote: Unfortunately, copying entries is far beyond the scope of Mass Copy. That's a pity, but thank you anyway, your plug-ins are invaluable. I haven't messed much with Fin08. Is it better, worse, or the same with respect to copying smart shapes? I'm

Re: [Finale] Smart shape and different time sigs

2007-12-01 Thread Christopher Smith
Guiliano, My original reply to your message didn't seem to get to the list, but you aren't out of options in 2006. Drag and drop behaved differently from copy and paste in version before 2007. The reasons had something to do with the kind of data you could get the operating system's

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-01 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:14 PM 12/1/2007, dhbailey wrote: Aaron Sherber wrote: Maybe I'm not understanding, but why would you pay for extra parts for something like this? Wouldn't you just xerox the original set you bought? Or buy the set and print it to PDF, so that you can make as many originals as you want?

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-01 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Aaron Sherber wrote: Um, I think you're misreading numbers. Fin 2008 was released in the US several months ago. For the past several years, version 200N has been released around August of 200N-1. This would indeed be early if Daniel were talking about Fin2009. You're right, I did mis-read

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-01 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
dhbailey wrote: But it is interesting that they dumped Sibelius' Scorch plug-in in favor of Finale's. I just wish that MakeMusic would be more open about such things, more encouraging, adopt more of a look at us and all the places where Finale is heading these days attitude for the general

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-01 Thread Richard Smith
I have visited bandmusicdirect.com and downloaded the Finale Viewer. My browser (IE as recommended on the site for PC) will not display music. I get blank staves and music playing. Other than that, it look very much like Scorch. Richard Smith http://www.rgsmithmusic.com Noel Stoutenburg

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and Beyond

2007-12-01 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I'd be a little concerned that nothing has been added this month, where as sites like musicnotes.com add stuff pretty much daily. Richard Smith wrote: I have visited bandmusicdirect.com and downloaded the Finale Viewer. My browser (IE as recommended on the site for PC) will not display