Re: [Finale] Splash screen

2009-02-11 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/10/2009 09:38 PM, John Howell wrote: If I remember correctly, the desktop concept or analogy (which is clearly what David meant) was original with Apple, and was stolen by Microsoft, which unaccountably won the subsequent lawsuit. So by the time Windoze came along that was all ancient

Re: Desktop (Was: [Finale] Splash screen)

2009-02-11 Thread Allen Fisher
Didn't OS/2 have one too? or did Star predate that? On Feb 11, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Phil Daley wrote: At 2/10/2009 09:38 PM, John Howell wrote: If I remember correctly, the desktop concept or analogy (which is clearly what David meant) was original with Apple, and was stolen by Microsoft, which

[Finale] FinWin 2k6c - transposing chords for staves set to transpose chromatically

2009-02-11 Thread Marcello Noia
I wrote some jazz tunes with no key signature. I put them in Finale setting the staves for transposing instruments to transpose chromatically. The problem is that the chord symbols do not transpose. I half-solved problem creating a solo form section with slash notation and staff style set to

Re: [Finale] Splash screen

2009-02-11 Thread Barbara Touburg
Allen Fisher wrote: Is there a particular reason that you want to disable it? I don't like the image in it. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] FinWin 2k6c - transposing chords for staves set to transpose chromatically

2009-02-11 Thread Christopher Smith
On Feb 11, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Marcello Noia wrote: I wrote some jazz tunes with no key signature. I put them in Finale setting the staves for transposing instruments to transpose chromatically. The problem is that the chord symbols do not transpose. I half- solved problem creating a solo

[Finale] Re: Desktop

2009-02-11 Thread Phil Daley
As I remember it: Xerox Star Apple Lisa Microsoft Windows 1 Apple Macintosh Microsoft Windows 2 Microsoft Windows 3 IBM OS/2 Microsoft Windows NT At 2/11/2009 09:11 AM, Allen Fisher wrote: Didn't OS/2 have one too? or did Star predate that? On Feb 11, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Phil Daley wrote: At

Re: [Finale] Re: Desktop

2009-02-11 Thread Owain Sutton
There's plenty others that could be included in the list, such as those for the Acorn Archimedes - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes Phil Daley wrote: As I remember it: Xerox Star Apple Lisa Microsoft Windows 1 Apple Macintosh Microsoft Windows 2 Microsoft Windows 3 IBM OS/2

Re: [Finale] Splash screen

2009-02-11 Thread dhbailey
John Howell wrote: At 12:44 AM +0100 2/11/09, Barbara Touburg wrote: dhbailey wrote: At least that's what's happened with other programs I've used which allow the user to turn off the splash screen -- I just look at the desktop for longer before the program actually starts. I usually

Re: [Finale] Swing after 1900

2009-02-11 Thread dhbailey
norman wrote: i am constantly reminded on this thread, of the Duke Ellington song it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swingswing can mean so many things in the musical genremy own learning being that swing involves anticipation of the beat...or slightly out of

Re: Desktop (Was: [Finale] Splash screen)

2009-02-11 Thread Michael Good
Hi Allen, Phil, and John, As Phil mentioned, the Xerox Star was the first commercial product using many of the desktop concepts. But the Xerox Alto research system explored some of these (more the WYSIWYG than the desktop) years before. And many of these ideas were originally shown by Doug

Re: [Finale] Re: Desktop

2009-02-11 Thread David W. Fenton
A little research in Wikipedia can refresh your memory, Phil. On 11 Feb 2009 at 13:34, Phil Daley wrote: Xerox Star Introduced in 1981. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star Apple Lisa Project begun in 1978. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa Released Jan. 19, 1983.

[Finale] chords

2009-02-11 Thread trumpet57
Hi all---first of all, using Finale 2007 for Windows. I'm having trouble with the Type into Score part of the chord tool. When I try to write a flat, it's supposed to be a lower case B (b), but it's printing as a capital B that's just smaller than the root note. Also, when I use

Re: [Finale] chords

2009-02-11 Thread Christopher Smith
On Feb 11, 2009, at 5:04 PM, trumpe...@verizon.net wrote: Hi all---first of all, using Finale 2007 for Windows. I'm having trouble with the Type into Score part of the chord tool. When I try to write a flat, it's supposed to be a lower case B (b), but it's printing as a capital

Re: [Finale] Splash screen

2009-02-11 Thread Carl Dershem
dhbailey wrote: John Howell wrote: At 12:44 AM +0100 2/11/09, Barbara Touburg wrote: dhbailey wrote: At least that's what's happened with other programs I've used which allow the user to turn off the splash screen -- I just look at the desktop for longer before the program actually