Re: [Finale] Unwanted text linking

[Christopher Smith]

This might be related to the file contents replacement bug, too. Check your 
folder where temp files are located (the location is in Finale Preferences), 
then quit Finale. Do all the files clear out? Manually empty the folder (while 
Finale is quit) and restart the computer, if the folder isn’t already empty.

Apparently, this might be related to different text blocks having the same 
identification number in Finale’s internal filing system. This happens when 
temp files don’t get cleared, I imagine.

If Robert’s suggestions don’t help, you can copy the contents of the file to a 
virgin file, and you will have to redo all formatting and titles, so obviously 
this is a last resort. At least it’s better than exporting through MusicXML, 
which strips even more information.

Christopher


> On Sep 2, 2017, at 7:48 PM, Raymond Horton  wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Robert! I will try all of those things.
> 
> On Sep 2, 2017 7:40 PM, "Robert Patterson" 
> wrote:
> 
>> It sounds to me like there are several things going on here. The first and
>> most important is that you may have file corruption. My suggestion is to
>> open a fresh new file, perhaps a "document without libraries" and use my
>> Settings Scrapbook plugin to copy the File Header from the fresh file to
>> your file. You can then reenter your data for those fields. If this doesn't
>> work, I would love to get a copy of the problematic file, because I have
>> made some effort with Settings Scrapbook to have it resolve issues like
>> this.
>> 
>> Beyond this, Makemusic introduced a behavior that imho is a terrible design
>> mistake and regression. They allow you to edit the underlying text insert
>> inside title headers. This presents two challeges. The first is that you
>> must constantly be aware of whether you are enter text with a thin cursor
>> or thick cursor. The second is, there are cases where you are screwed no
>> matter what you do. Frequently I have to entirely delete titles and start
>> all over.
>> 
>> Finally, the menu items of which you speak are now on the File Info tab of
>> the Score Manager.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Raymond Horton 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> This problem gets weirder and weirder. Between the title, subtitle, and
>>> composer, one will substitute for the other when I don't want it. And
>> just
>>> now, when I attempted to insert a part/Score same text insert on a title
>>> page of the score, I get the title! And it's not the current title,
>> either,
>>> it's the title of the original old file that I opened to arrange for a
>> new
>>> group. (This reminds me. Didn't we used to have, under the file menu, a
>>> place to define the title and other things about the file?) Again, thanks
>>> for any help offered.
>>> 
>>> On Sep 2, 2017 6:34 PM, "Raymond Horton" 
>> wrote:
>>> 
 Yes, I already tried that some, and it doesn't seem to help. Thanks!
 
 On Sep 2, 2017 5:08 PM, "David H. Bailey" 
>>> wrote:
 
> On 9/2/2017 4:53 PM, Raymond Horton wrote:
> 
>> This is happened two or three times, and it is quite frustrating for
>>> me.
>> I
>> start editing an old file in Finale Windows 25, and when I try to
>> edit
>> the
>> title or the composer, I find that they are linked and anything I put
>>> in
>> one field automatically turns up in the other. Does anybody know how
>> to
>> turn this off? Thanks for any help!
>> 
> 
> I don't know how to turn it off, but one place to look would be the
> Text/Inserts dialog.  Perhaps data got corrupted and both of those
>> text
> items have been interpreted as being the same thing, either title or
> composer.  You may need to delete one and recreate it so the other one
> isn't of the same type of insert.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [Finale] Unwanted text linking

[Raymond Horton]

Thanks, Robert! I will try all of those things.

On Sep 2, 2017 7:40 PM, "Robert Patterson" 
wrote:

> It sounds to me like there are several things going on here. The first and
> most important is that you may have file corruption. My suggestion is to
> open a fresh new file, perhaps a "document without libraries" and use my
> Settings Scrapbook plugin to copy the File Header from the fresh file to
> your file. You can then reenter your data for those fields. If this doesn't
> work, I would love to get a copy of the problematic file, because I have
> made some effort with Settings Scrapbook to have it resolve issues like
> this.
>
> Beyond this, Makemusic introduced a behavior that imho is a terrible design
> mistake and regression. They allow you to edit the underlying text insert
> inside title headers. This presents two challeges. The first is that you
> must constantly be aware of whether you are enter text with a thin cursor
> or thick cursor. The second is, there are cases where you are screwed no
> matter what you do. Frequently I have to entirely delete titles and start
> all over.
>
> Finally, the menu items of which you speak are now on the File Info tab of
> the Score Manager.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Raymond Horton 
> wrote:
>
> > This problem gets weirder and weirder. Between the title, subtitle, and
> > composer, one will substitute for the other when I don't want it. And
> just
> > now, when I attempted to insert a part/Score same text insert on a title
> > page of the score, I get the title! And it's not the current title,
> either,
> > it's the title of the original old file that I opened to arrange for a
> new
> > group. (This reminds me. Didn't we used to have, under the file menu, a
> > place to define the title and other things about the file?) Again, thanks
> > for any help offered.
> >
> > On Sep 2, 2017 6:34 PM, "Raymond Horton" 
> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, I already tried that some, and it doesn't seem to help. Thanks!
> > >
> > > On Sep 2, 2017 5:08 PM, "David H. Bailey" 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 9/2/2017 4:53 PM, Raymond Horton wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> This is happened two or three times, and it is quite frustrating for
> > me.
> > >>> I
> > >>> start editing an old file in Finale Windows 25, and when I try to
> edit
> > >>> the
> > >>> title or the composer, I find that they are linked and anything I put
> > in
> > >>> one field automatically turns up in the other. Does anybody know how
> to
> > >>> turn this off? Thanks for any help!
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> I don't know how to turn it off, but one place to look would be the
> > >> Text/Inserts dialog.  Perhaps data got corrupted and both of those
> text
> > >> items have been interpreted as being the same thing, either title or
> > >> composer.  You may need to delete one and recreate it so the other one
> > >> isn't of the same type of insert.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
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> > >> dhbaile...@comcast.net
> > >> http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com
> > >>
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Re: [Finale] Unwanted text linking

[Robert Patterson]

It sounds to me like there are several things going on here. The first and
most important is that you may have file corruption. My suggestion is to
open a fresh new file, perhaps a "document without libraries" and use my
Settings Scrapbook plugin to copy the File Header from the fresh file to
your file. You can then reenter your data for those fields. If this doesn't
work, I would love to get a copy of the problematic file, because I have
made some effort with Settings Scrapbook to have it resolve issues like
this.

Beyond this, Makemusic introduced a behavior that imho is a terrible design
mistake and regression. They allow you to edit the underlying text insert
inside title headers. This presents two challeges. The first is that you
must constantly be aware of whether you are enter text with a thin cursor
or thick cursor. The second is, there are cases where you are screwed no
matter what you do. Frequently I have to entirely delete titles and start
all over.

Finally, the menu items of which you speak are now on the File Info tab of
the Score Manager.



On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Raymond Horton 
wrote:

> This problem gets weirder and weirder. Between the title, subtitle, and
> composer, one will substitute for the other when I don't want it. And just
> now, when I attempted to insert a part/Score same text insert on a title
> page of the score, I get the title! And it's not the current title, either,
> it's the title of the original old file that I opened to arrange for a new
> group. (This reminds me. Didn't we used to have, under the file menu, a
> place to define the title and other things about the file?) Again, thanks
> for any help offered.
>
> On Sep 2, 2017 6:34 PM, "Raymond Horton"  wrote:
>
> > Yes, I already tried that some, and it doesn't seem to help. Thanks!
> >
> > On Sep 2, 2017 5:08 PM, "David H. Bailey" 
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 9/2/2017 4:53 PM, Raymond Horton wrote:
> >>
> >>> This is happened two or three times, and it is quite frustrating for
> me.
> >>> I
> >>> start editing an old file in Finale Windows 25, and when I try to edit
> >>> the
> >>> title or the composer, I find that they are linked and anything I put
> in
> >>> one field automatically turns up in the other. Does anybody know how to
> >>> turn this off? Thanks for any help!
> >>>
> >>
> >> I don't know how to turn it off, but one place to look would be the
> >> Text/Inserts dialog.  Perhaps data got corrupted and both of those text
> >> items have been interpreted as being the same thing, either title or
> >> composer.  You may need to delete one and recreate it so the other one
> >> isn't of the same type of insert.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >> dhbaile...@comcast.net
> >> http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com
> >>
> >
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Re: [Finale] Unwanted text linking

[Raymond Horton]

This problem gets weirder and weirder. Between the title, subtitle, and
composer, one will substitute for the other when I don't want it. And just
now, when I attempted to insert a part/Score same text insert on a title
page of the score, I get the title! And it's not the current title, either,
it's the title of the original old file that I opened to arrange for a new
group. (This reminds me. Didn't we used to have, under the file menu, a
place to define the title and other things about the file?) Again, thanks
for any help offered.

On Sep 2, 2017 6:34 PM, "Raymond Horton"  wrote:

> Yes, I already tried that some, and it doesn't seem to help. Thanks!
>
> On Sep 2, 2017 5:08 PM, "David H. Bailey"  wrote:
>
>> On 9/2/2017 4:53 PM, Raymond Horton wrote:
>>
>>> This is happened two or three times, and it is quite frustrating for me.
>>> I
>>> start editing an old file in Finale Windows 25, and when I try to edit
>>> the
>>> title or the composer, I find that they are linked and anything I put in
>>> one field automatically turns up in the other. Does anybody know how to
>>> turn this off? Thanks for any help!
>>>
>>
>> I don't know how to turn it off, but one place to look would be the
>> Text/Inserts dialog.  Perhaps data got corrupted and both of those text
>> items have been interpreted as being the same thing, either title or
>> composer.  You may need to delete one and recreate it so the other one
>> isn't of the same type of insert.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> dhbaile...@comcast.net
>> http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com
>>
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Re: [Finale] Unwanted text linking

[Raymond Horton]

Yes, I already tried that some, and it doesn't seem to help. Thanks!

On Sep 2, 2017 5:08 PM, "David H. Bailey"  wrote:

> On 9/2/2017 4:53 PM, Raymond Horton wrote:
>
>> This is happened two or three times, and it is quite frustrating for me. I
>> start editing an old file in Finale Windows 25, and when I try to edit the
>> title or the composer, I find that they are linked and anything I put in
>> one field automatically turns up in the other. Does anybody know how to
>> turn this off? Thanks for any help!
>>
>
> I don't know how to turn it off, but one place to look would be the
> Text/Inserts dialog.  Perhaps data got corrupted and both of those text
> items have been interpreted as being the same thing, either title or
> composer.  You may need to delete one and recreate it so the other one
> isn't of the same type of insert.
>
>
>
> --
> *
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Re: [Finale] Unwanted text linking

[David H. Bailey]

On 9/2/2017 4:53 PM, Raymond Horton wrote:
> This is happened two or three times, and it is quite frustrating for me. I
> start editing an old file in Finale Windows 25, and when I try to edit the
> title or the composer, I find that they are linked and anything I put in
> one field automatically turns up in the other. Does anybody know how to
> turn this off? Thanks for any help!

I don't know how to turn it off, but one place to look would be the 
Text/Inserts dialog.  Perhaps data got corrupted and both of those text 
items have been interpreted as being the same thing, either title or 
composer.  You may need to delete one and recreate it so the other one 
isn't of the same type of insert.



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[Finale] Unwanted text linking

[Raymond Horton]

This is happened two or three times, and it is quite frustrating for me. I
start editing an old file in Finale Windows 25, and when I try to edit the
title or the composer, I find that they are linked and anything I put in
one field automatically turns up in the other. Does anybody know how to
turn this off? Thanks for any help!
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Re: [Finale] How to break a stave for a ds al coda. And resume for the coda on the same line.

[David H. Bailey]

On 9/2/2017 8:12 PM, Jim Fischer wrote:
> 
> Any help ?

There are a couple of ways to accomplish this -- one is to simply put 
the coda on the same system as the measure which has the D.S. on it and 
for a measure or two between those apply a blank staff style so that 
nothing shows for that measure or measures, then aligning things is easy.

Another way is to create the staff with the D.S. and on the next staff 
create the coda.  Make the staff with the D.S. short and in Page Layout 
Tool, in the Page Layout menu uncheck "Avoid Margin Collisions" and drag 
the ends of the staves in question so there will be a space between them 
and then drag the staff with the Coda up to where you want it, on the 
same level as the D.S.



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[Finale] How to break a stave for a ds al coda. And resume for the coda on the same line.

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Re: [Finale] Dorico

[Lawrence David Eden]

I agree!  Go for it, David.

Larry Eden


> On Sep 2, 2017, at 5:31 AM, SN jef chippewa  
> wrote:
> 
> 
> david, it sounds to me like you should write an article or blog entry 
> comparing the pros and cons of the three programmes ;-)
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Re: [Finale] Dorico -- chord symbol tool for graphics?

[David H. Bailey]

On 9/2/2017 5:26 AM, SN jef chippewa wrote:
> 
> i watched the video chuck mentioned and wonder if it could be hacked
> to provide a nice way to build a new music symbols library.  normally
> i would do this with multiple text expressions, or (yuck!) as a
> multi-component shape expression; both these approaches are
> unsatisfying.
> 
> for example, if you set the foundation (A, for example) to a snare
> drum character, you could have various manifestations of   additional
> symbols replaced to show (for example) snare sticks striking the
> instrument in various ways: e.g., ord, with butt, hoop crack, stick
> on stick rim shot... so instrument symbols assigned to the notes and
> playing techniques to the suffixes.
> 
> would be a pain in the ass to do this in finale's chord editor, but
> it looks like the graphic approch in dorico would make this a breeze,
> no?
> 
> it would be awesome if you could change the angle of the symbols...
> add to that the possibility to add lines, shapes and you would
> essentially have a mini graphics editor inside the software.
> 

I just did a brief checkout of the video and tried some things in Dorico 
and you are correct that it is very easy to add various glyphs and 
graphics to chord symbols (or change them entirely to show the example 
Jef mentions) although I'm not sure how one would access such a chord 
symbol without editing each instance of it in the score while entering 
the music. You can simply enter a C chord and then in the Engrave mode 
double-click that particular instance and edit it to show whatever you 
wish without changing any other instance of the C chord (unless you make 
your changed version the default for that project).  I suppose one could 
enter a very obscure chord symbol, edit it to show what you want and 
then make that the default appearance for that chord symbol in the 
project and then simply enter that obscure chord every time you want 
that pictogram shown.  You can add glyphs from any existing font and you 
can add graphics and then resize them.  What you can't apparently do is 
to add your own hand-drawn line in the editor.  Neither can you rotate 
any of the items added in a chord symbol.  So it's sort of a 
mini-graphics editor but not complete.  However if you create your own 
graphics with the rotated items outside of Dorico you can use them 
inside this editor.

This is a great example of how the Dorico development team is slowly but 
surely making the program potentially the most powerful music engraving 
programming available.  However it does raise the question of what 
percentage of people working with notation programs actually need or 
want that deep a level of editing.  Obviously they think/hope enough for 
the Dorico team to put development time into it.

But for those who do need/want such deep editing capabilities, I think 
Dorico is well on its way to taking over Finale's long-held position as 
the most powerful notation program.

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Re: [Finale] Dorico

[SN jef chippewa]

david, it sounds to me like you should write an article or blog entry 
comparing the pros and cons of the three programmes ;-)

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[Finale] Dorico -- chord symbol tool for graphics?

[SN jef chippewa]

i watched the video chuck mentioned and wonder if it could be hacked 
to provide a nice way to build a new music symbols library.  normally 
i would do this with multiple text expressions, or (yuck!) as a 
multi-component shape expression; both these approaches are 
unsatisfying.

for example, if you set the foundation (A, for example) to a snare 
drum character, you could have various manifestations of   additional 
symbols replaced to show (for example) snare sticks striking the 
instrument in various ways: e.g., ord, with butt, hoop crack, stick 
on stick rim shot... so instrument symbols assigned to the notes and 
playing techniques to the suffixes.

would be a pain in the ass to do this in finale's chord editor, but 
it looks like the graphic approch in dorico would make this a breeze, 
no?

it would be awesome if you could change the angle of the symbols... 
add to that the possibility to add lines, shapes and you would 
essentially have a mini graphics editor inside the software.

-- 

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Re: [Finale] Dorico

[David H. Bailey]

I bought Dorico when it first came out and have installed every upgrade 
as it was announced, and I think it's a great piece of software but for 
my uses it has some severe limitations, many of which are my own and not 
the program's.

I'm not sure what you mean by "20th/21st century notation" since in my 
experience there is such a wide array of notational devices, many 
invented by a single composer and never moving beyond that, some of them 
graphical, some of them in my experience incomprehensible, with others 
more expansions of traditional notation, and a huge amount of it simply 
the same traditional notation from the 18th and 19th century.

Since my notational needs are pretty much 100% traditional notation I 
can't speak to the ability to use more experimental notation.  But there 
is a great forum at Steinberg.net which is free to join and that would 
be the best place to ask since there are people who are making great use 
of Dorico for completing new projects and publishing their works.

My background:  I started out doing computer music notation with 
MusicPrinterPlus version 3 for DOS and when that program no longer would 
work, I made the jump to Finale version 3.25, and have bought 
practically every annual upgrade along the way.  I bought the crossgrade 
to Sibelius for Windows version 2.11 and bought the upgrades as they 
came out but didn't really start using it for projects until version 5, 
when I finally sat down and learned Sibelius from scratch instead of 
trying to adapt my Finale work-flow to Sibelius.  Ever since then I have 
been using Sibelius as my primary notation software but have stopped 
buying upgrades since verson 7.1.3.  That is still the app I use for 
most of my notational needs.

I find there is much to like about Dorico and much which is overly fussy 
in my opinion.  I will admit that I have yet to sit down and really 
learn Dorico as I should, which is something I intend to do this fall. 
I find their use of "flows" confusing but I find their separation of the 
whole computer notation process into different "modes" to be helpful. 
They have Setup (similar to but not the same as the new score wizards in 
either Finale, Sibelius or MuseScore), Write (where the music itself is 
entered), Engrave (where how the music actually will look on the page is 
finalized), Play (self-explanatory), and Print (also self-explanatory).

Their music entry in the Write mode is very refreshing -- a person can 
simply start entering the music (pitch and rhythm) without regard for 
meter, measures, etc.  That way a person can be inspired to create a 
melodic line if so desired before worrying about meter, key, placement 
of barlines, etc.  And then a person can play around with different 
meters and the program will re-notate what has been entered.  I believe 
they call that "modeless entry."

It's what happens after that that is where I get bogged down.  At the 
bottom of the screen is a narrow bar with an up-pointing arrowhead, and 
what is displayed when that is clicked differs depending on what has 
been clicked on in the music.  It's sort of like the "Inspector" in 
Sibelius.  The confusing thing to me so far about this is that I can't 
remember what information will be shown, or what I can do with it all. 
Dorico has much which can be adjusted (like Finale) and that freedom can 
bring confusion with it until a person has learned the program through 
intense usage.  And so far there isn't a very complete user manual.  The 
user can keep that panel open but then it eats up screen real-estate so 
less of the score is shown.

Dorico can't do polymetric music where the length of the beat varies 
from staff to staff -- independent meters where the barlines don't line 
up from staff to staff is the norm.  That means that a quarter-note in 
one staff equals a quarter note in another staff regardless of the two 
time signatures.  Thus a section with 2/4 in some staves against 6/8 in 
other staves has all the 8ths moving at the same speed rather than 
different speeds, keeping the 2 beats in each of the different meters 
constant.  They will supposedly add that capability "in an upcoming 
upgrade" but the precise version number or date hasn't been indicated yet.

There's a lot Dorico does very nicely and a lot which I find to be very 
unintuitive (which I realize simply means that I haven't wrapped my head 
around their processes yet).

Anybody who wants to learn more about what Dorico can and can't do 
should join the Steinberg.net Dorico forum and ask specific questions 
about your notational desires/needs.  At this point someone on that 
forum, whether any of several Steinberg employees (including Daniel 
Spreadbury, the brains behind Dorico) or any of the many current Dorico 
users, will most likely have an answer.  There is also an online manual 
which can also be downloaded in PDF format for offline reading, at:


One final point which many 

[Finale] [OFF] piece for live-composed score

[SN jef chippewa]

please forgive a little self-promo but it's quite 
related to notation matters (if not 
finale-specific) :-)

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BERLIN -- 10 sept 2017 @ heimathafen (neukölln) | kontraklang concert series

hey, anyone interested in seeing musicians make 
the score in real time that they will play from 
should come check out my latest next week.

"the piece formerly known as 'neues Werk'" is for 
cello, mobile trio (sax, accordion, trombone), 
composer and live-composed score.  this is my 
third collaboration with LUX:NM, who commissioned 
the work.  there is somewhat of a "canada" slant 
on the programme, with 3 works by canadians who 
live / have lived in germany.

preps for the piece: linocut music symbol, cutter, ink and paper.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1617413434944504=pcb.122959651693722=3

Jef Chippewa -- neues Werk (UA)
Annesley Black -- a piece that is a size that is 
recognised as not a size but a piece
Antonis Anissegos -- It Is What It Is # 1. (UA)
Anthony Tan -- On the Sensations of Tone III (UA)
Brigitta Muntendorf -- Yes Master
Sarah Nemtsov -- JOURNAL

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http://newmusicnotation.com/fonts.html

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Re: [Finale] Assigning Text Blocks to Measures - Shortcut?

[SN jef chippewa]

text tool, text menu: Assign To Measure

> Is there a shortcut to assigning text blocks to measures...

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neueweise -- fonts for new music and traditional notation
http://newmusicnotation.com/fonts


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