Re: [Finale] Fonts for text-related items in scores

2009-07-11 Thread Mark D Lew
At 10:56 AM +0200 7/9/09, Jonathan Smith wrote: Just out of interest, I did a survey a long time ago with singers - to see which font they preferred to read for lyrics. The vast majority elected a sans serif font, one with a more 'hand written' look to it than a classic 'printers' font.

Re: [Finale] copyrights

2009-07-11 Thread Lawrence David Eden
Has anyone sent their compositions to the Library of Congress to be copyrighted? I sent one almost a year ago. Aren't they supposed to send you some kind of certificate of copyright? I paid for it, filled out all the forms and if you go to search your own copyright they want to

Re: [Finale] copyrights

2009-07-11 Thread David McKay
With all you folk submitting your compositions, no wonder they haven't replied. They're run off their feet with all this cataloguing! David McKay 2009/7/11 Lawrence David Eden lde...@comcast.net Has anyone sent their compositions to the Library of Congress to be copyrighted? I sent one

Re: [Finale] copyrights

2009-07-11 Thread George Boziwick
Hi Brian and the list: I've recently registered some new pieces on-line with the copyright office. It does take quite a long time before the registration is issued. The good thing about the on-line registration is that they email you a case number and if they need to communicate something to

[Finale] graphic programme (mac) for cut/paste scores

2009-07-11 Thread shirling neueweise
i am about to start a project and am hoping to get some suggestions for a programme to use for this project that can combine text and images and allows editing to both. the score will be scanned and dissected to make parts (it is NOT going to be possible to do this in finale). i will need

Re: [Finale] graphic programme (mac) for cut/paste scores

2009-07-11 Thread Chris Bell
the piece is for orchestra and lasts 5hrs... organized in about 30 movements. there are movements in which i will be able to reuse graphic and text materials across different instruments and i will also be reusing text elements in a general sense (page/piece numbers and text indication),

Re: [Finale] Fonts for text-related items in scores

2009-07-11 Thread Dick Hauser
On Jul 11, 2009, at 1:40 AM, Mark D Lew wrote: At 10:56 AM +0200 7/9/09, Jonathan Smith wrote: Just out of interest, I did a survey a long time ago with singers - to see which font they preferred to read for lyrics. The vast majority elected a sans serif font, one with a more 'hand

Re: [Finale] Fonts for text-related items in scores

2009-07-11 Thread Antonio Di Martino
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:31:37 -0500 Noel Stoutenburg mjol...@ticnet.com wrote: bassm...@katamail.com wrote: By larger appearance I mean that there's more room and looser spacing in sans serifs compared to serifs - just compare the relative size of Times 10 and Helvetica 10. The fact

Re: [Finale] graphic programme (mac) for cut/paste scores

2009-07-11 Thread John Howell
At 6:57 PM +0200 7/11/09, Chris Bell wrote: the piece is for orchestra and lasts 5hrs... organized in about 30 movements. there are movements in which i will be able to reuse graphic and text materials across different instruments and i will also be reusing text elements in a general sense

Re: [Finale] copyrights

2009-07-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jul 10, 2009, at 6:38 PM, trumpe...@verizon.net wrote: Has anyone sent their compositions to the Library of Congress to be copyrighted? I sent one almost a year ago. Aren't they supposed to send you some kind of certificate of copyright? I paid for it, filled out all the