Re: [Finale] Default file mnagement

On Aug 22, 2005, at 3:57 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Noel Stoutenburg / 2005/08/22 / 03:27 PM wrote: My original sense was that you were looking for changes to one or more specific libraries; from this post it seems that you are looking to change your "Maestro default" file, which would not be d

Re: [Finale] TAN: Bob Moog

On Aug 23, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: I find it interesting that all the obits I have seen speak of Moog's synthesizer as a pop instrument, with no mention at all of the classical electronic-music scene that gave it birth and nourished it thru its first decade. Not complainin

[Finale] Measure Number question

Greeting general knowledge base, FinMac2005 I can't believe I am doing this for the first time, but I want measure numbers to appear over the staff at the beginning of each system (no problem so far) AND where I specify, usually at double bars (this is the problem.) I can force a measure nu

Re: [Finale] Measure Number question

es that show up at the beginnings of systems. The ones at double bars do NOT show up on other staves. On Aug 24, 2005, at 7:35 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: Greeting general knowledge base, FinMac2005 I can't believe I am doing this for the first time, but I want measure numbers to appe

Re: [Finale] Measure Number question

On Aug 24, 2005, at 11:27 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 10:35 PM 08/24/2005, Christopher Smith wrote: >I can't believe I am doing this for the first time, but I want measure >numbers to appear over the staff at the beginning of each system (no >problem so far) AND where I speci

Re: [Finale] Measure Number question

On Aug 25, 2005, at 1:04 AM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On 24/08/05, Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It looks like I will be opt-clicking after every double bar in every extracted part. Crap. Couldn't you just set all staves to show measure numbers before you extract par

Re: [Finale] Measure Number question

On Aug 25, 2005, at 8:32 AM, Hans Arktoft wrote: Couldn't you just set all staves to show measure numbers before you extract parts (in your separate Part Extraction score, if you do it that way)? I STILL will have to double click every double bar on every staff. I am trying to avoid havi

Re: [Finale] Measure Number question

On Aug 25, 2005, at 11:59 AM, Stephen Peters wrote: Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I STILL will have to double click every double bar on every staff. I am trying to avoid having to do that, but it looks hopeless. It's a bit annoying, but I usually switch t

Re: [Finale] GPO Percussion - "piatti cymbal"?

On Aug 26, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hey all, This is regarding the "Basic Orch Percussion" GPO instrument included in GPO Finale Edition (and GPO full): Can anyone tell me what the difference is supposed to be between the cymbals they call "piatti cymbals" (found at C6, C

Re: [Finale] GPO Percussion - "piatti cymbal"?

On 26 Aug 2005, at 9:53 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: On the jazz side, one of the two suspended cymbals in the standard traps set is called a "crash cymbal," and the other is called the "ride cymbal." The former is of heavier gauge and is for producing big splashes of sound through single strokes

Re: [Finale] Hyphenated lyric going to 2nd ending

On Aug 31, 2005, at 1:15 AM, Don Hart wrote: Thanks Cecil, but I'm on finmac '05 and I'm not sure of the equivalent to your instructions on a mac, or even if there actually is an equivalent in this case. - Don on 8/30/05 11:49 PM, Cecil Rigby at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: assuming Win platf

Re: [Finale] Is Finale 2006 "trustable" for Mac yet?

On Aug 31, 2005, at 3:24 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 2:54 Uhr Eric Dussault wrote: I you don't need eps (there broken until MM fixes it, but it's unlikely you will need it if you were on Win XP)) and have a powerful Mac will at least 1 GB of ram if you need GPO, then it may be ok to work

[Finale] Lyrics lower curved ligatures for two syllables on same note

Hi all, Sorry to bring this up again, but I can't find the thread where this was discussed last year. I remember Mark D. Lew had some intelligent things to say on the subject. I thought one could use an underscore character from some other font as a curved ligature connecting two syllables o

Re: [Finale] Lyrics lower curved ligatures for two syllables on same note

On Aug 31, 2005, at 1:30 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 12:31 PM 08/31/2005, Harold Owen wrote: >The character I use for the ligature in cases such as "e_il" is in >the Toccata Font, lower base b.  There's also one in the Engraver font, uppercase I. Thanks, both of you. As it turns out, I hav

Re: [Finale] file overwrite bug

On Sep 4, 2005, at 12:27 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 17:14 Uhr Randolph Peters wrote: It usually is Shift-Command-S on a Mac. and with 2k6 even Finale implements it. in 2005, too (on Panther, at any rate.) Christopher ___ Finale mailing li

Re: [Finale] file overwrite bug

On Sep 4, 2005, at 7:33 AM, shirling & neueweise wrote: finally got bit. macfin 2005r.1 snip i use auto-save when working on the score, normally turn it off when doing parts, and had simply forgotten taht this was one of the things related to the bug and neglected to turn it off. Thi

Re: [Finale] Back up

On Sep 5, 2005, at 9:19 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Now I backup the entire 600MB+ Finale file directory to iDisk every 5 AM automatically. I have lost no file so far :-) iDisk is wonderful for that, and for synchronising files easily between two computers (say, my home and my school comput

Re: [Finale] Making Engraver Slurs fixed

On Sep 5, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: I had this problem before, and somehow I seem to remember there was a better solution: Engraver slurs are too unreliable in PDFs, so to make them stay put, do I really have to go to each page, select all in the smart shape tool and press u

Re: [Finale] Making Engraver Slurs fixed

On Sep 5, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 19:02 Uhr Christopher Smith wrote: Hard to imagine a plugin that would operate more easily than what you just described. Not hard at all: I just had to do this for a 63 page score. You have to select all, arrow-up, arrow-down, wait

Re: [Finale] Back up

On Sep 5, 2005, at 2:21 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Uh, what is iDisk? Dean It's a service offered by Apple that you pay a subscription fee for. You have an icon that appears on your desktop that looks like a blue crystal ball, but behaves just like another disk drive, except that the a

Re: [Finale] Re: file overwrite bug

On Sep 5, 2005, at 4:40 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: I think we discussed this before, but I have forgotten again: is the File Overwrite Bug still present in 2k6? Um, jef might know, if he is on 2006. I didn't note which version he was on when he saw it most recently. As I mentioned once

Re: [Finale] Back up

On Sep 5, 2005, at 5:48 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 5 Sep 2005 at 16:46, Christopher Smith wrote: I checked it out for the free thirty-day period, but haven't paid my subscription fee yet, and am not sure that I will just yet. It sounds like a really great service, and typicall

Re: [Finale] Back up

On Sep 6, 2005, at 12:01 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Christopher Smith / 2005/09/05 / 06:58 PM wrote: Something around CDN$30 a month, or about the same as my home phone line or my cable internet connection. Obviously, one would need to use it quite a bit to get $30/month worth of value from it

Re: [Finale] Re: file overwrite bug

On Sep 6, 2005, at 6:51 AM, Simon Troup wrote: Simon -- Fin2k5 or 2k6? 2k6. Has anyone tracked down a proceedure that can reproduce the bug? No, unfortunately, the razzen-frazzen thing just swoops in unexpectedly, overwrites a file (with or without notice) and then is gone. It happens

Re: [Finale] Text Expr Designer_bug? Fin 2006 (Mac)

On Sep 8, 2005, at 9:04 AM, Hans Arktoft wrote: Anyone else noticed that Line Spacing is disabled in the Text Expression Designer dialog box? Even if this menu item is available, nothing happens when you try to select it (with or without the expression itself highlighted). I'll report it whe

[Finale] Syllable division in French

Hi, collected wisdom, especially those of the francophone persuasion, I have to divide some lyrics in French into syllables, and I can't find a reference. My Petit Robert tells me in the introduction that the subject is of little interest (not to me!), except to say that separately-sounded con

Re: [Finale] Chord Definition

On Sep 9, 2005, at 3:31 PM, Jacki B. wrote: Hey, Everyone - I've gone blank this afternoon for some reason! Could someone let me know what this chord would be called: D - Fb - Ab I know it's a D diminished but can't remember if this is the regular diminished chord or a "doubly diminished" si

Re: [Finale] Chord Definition

On Sep 9, 2005, at 4:40 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Seems to me that this is functioning (according to your description) as some kind of dominant chord to the target chord of C Major, in which case, there are a couple of ways of describing it, depending on the context. As it is now, it seems t

Re: [Finale] Panning values

On Sep 9, 2005, at 9:13 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Well, the problem is that you've got 180 degrees and 128 MIDI values, so degrees would be more precise than any MIDI value you could produce. Percentages have the same problem, when you use 100% for right and 100% for left, since you end up wit

Re: [Finale] RE: Chord Definition

On Sep 11, 2005, at 5:05 PM, John Howell wrote: At 2:00 PM -0700 9/9/05, ThomaStudios wrote: With this info it now seems like an Fm6, even with the E suspended. I've seen progressions like this in old, old lead sheets where the editors could NOT read bass clef, and only saw the chord shape in

Re: [Finale] different articulation playback

On Sep 11, 2005, at 6:54 PM, James Bailey wrote: Okay, so I'm looking to do this as easily as possible, since it's something that doesn't matter. I'm taking just the 9th variation of the 24th Caprice from Paganini's 24 caprices and taking it down the fifth so a violist friend of mine can co

Re: [Finale] Underscore

On Sep 13, 2005, at 12:27 PM, Javier Ruiz wrote: Now if FinaleScript could change the paper size in the Page Setup menu... Yes, I just noticed this again (FinMac 2005, OS 10.3.9) I have been switching back and forth, trying out the capabilities of my new (well, second-hand, really) HP 51

Re: [Finale] Underscore

On Sep 13, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Chris, Does this have anything to do with the fact that Finale wants to use the page setup of the default file you are using at the moment? Don't know if this is part of the issue, but I'm just reminding you of this in case, like me, your m

Re: [Finale] OT: Composition for the non-musical

On Sep 13, 2005, at 1:35 PM, Phil Daley wrote: This is pretty interesting: http://tones.wolfram.com/generate/ Hmm, I have to agree with David that the styles are pretty wide of the mark. I know enough (not very much, but enough) about algorithmic composition to know that there are many

Re: [Finale] Underscore

thing to do with the fact that Finale wants to use the page setup of the default file you are using at the moment? Don't know if this is part of the issue, but I'm just reminding you of this in case, like me, your memory is good for modeling Emmenthaler cheese. Chuck On Sep 13, 2005, at

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2k6 Multimeasure rest probs in older files

On Sep 14, 2005, at 10:16 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 06:41 PM 09/14/2005, Claudio Pompili wrote: >I'm on FinMac2k6 but I'm working on a performance part that was >orginally created in FinMac2k2. I can't get the multimeasure rest >create to work. I've already installed the new Finale 2k6 defaul

Re: [Finale] Hebrew font

Leonid, I ran this by some of my friends who are active in Jewish music circles, both secular and religious, and they said that ALL the music that they normally use has transliterated lyrics. In some cases, particularly for folk singers (and for some cantors(!)) they include the lyrics in Heb

Re: [Finale] The "lesser-Known Corners"

On Sep 16, 2005, at 9:56 AM, Williams, Jim wrote: Friends: This exchange leads me to pose the following questions: DO WE HANG OUT ON ANY OF FINALE'S "LESSER-KNOWN CORNERS? IF SO, HOW MUCH? Please consider: 1. The ossia tool 2. The mirror tool 3. The tempo tool 4. The MIDI tool

Re: [Finale] The "lesser-Known Corners"

On Sep 17, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: Well if that's the tack we're taking, then the elimination of percussion maps has to go at the top of the list. Just last week I had a long back-and-forth w. someone at MakeMusic who had the greatest difficulty even imagining the idea that

Re: [Finale] The "lesser-Known Corners"

On Sep 17, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: Christopher Smith wrote: OK, I don't understand this objection at all. Staff styles are the EASIEST way to make switches of this type, so I don't get why you think it is so inconvenient. You get the clef, key sig, staff name,

Re: [Finale] The "lesser-Known Corners"

On Sep 17, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: Christopher Smith wrote: In the Staff Menu, check Show Staff Style Names. No problems keeping track now. I also reduced the intensity of the colour of staff styles, so that I could see though them more easily. Christopher I like to have

Re: [Finale] probably dumb questions, but...

On Sep 17, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Nightingale wrote: I've just received and installed the latest version, upgrading from a very old one & having a couple of problems. 1st - how do I make it select partial measures in mass mover? It used to be an icon on my toolbar, but I can't find it now. W

Re: [Finale] probably dumb questions, but...

On Sep 17, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: Christopher Smith wrote: On Sep 17, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Nightingale wrote: I've just received and installed the latest version, upgrading from a very old one & having a couple of problems. 1st - how do I make it select partial me

Re: [Finale] strange transpositions

On Sep 17, 2005, at 11:49 PM, Bruce Petherick wrote: Hello, I am working on some vocal charts for a singer here in Calgary. She has asked me to transpose some of the charts into somewhat unusual keys. I am having great trouble with a chart that was written in C and she wants it transposed to

Re: [Finale] custom expression pacement

On Sep 19, 2005, at 12:31 PM, James E. Bailey wrote: Okay, so I've got my custom expressions made, and I'm trying to place them, but I get these odd things. I have two expressions, one for pizz. and one for arco. Both are vertical eps files, Finale understands them fine (as far as I know). I

Re: [Finale] OT: Transparent graphics

On Sep 20, 2005, at 8:58 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hey Brad, Okay, I was eventually able to figure out how to make transparent GIFs in Photoshop without too much trouble, but… This is very strange -- I'm trying to access a character from the EngraverFontExtras set (opt-P) and I can't. Other

Re: [Finale] OT: Transparent graphics

On Sep 20, 2005, at 10:01 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Thanks, Chris. Unfortunately, the Character Palette wasn't helpful here. I finally had to create the character in TextEdit, save as PDF, import the PDF into Photoshop, make the background transparent, and save as a transparent GIF. Wh

Re: [Finale] pdf parts

On Sep 21, 2005, at 2:58 PM, Stephen Peters wrote: "How could you steal a dead woman's shoes? Were you raised in a barn?" -- Elphaba, Wicked Great book. Her name comes from the original author of the Oz series, L. Frank Baum. His initials, if you tried to pron

Re: [Finale] pdf parts

Don't they scale to whatever page size you have set up in Page Setup? I was screwing with that recently, and saved Tabloid Landscape as my default, and all my PDF's were saved in that page format, which meant that they printed in tiny size sideways when they were printed on 8.5x11 paper. But

Re: [Finale] FinMac2006 print db crash

Darcy, I recently started crashing on my wife's laptop when trying to print to a shared printer attached to my desktop G4, while inside the print dialogue. The problem was caused by different versions of the printer driver on the two computers. Apparently BOTH computers have to have IDENTICAL

Re: [Finale] OT: MP3 Compression Comparison

On Sep 26, 2005, at 11:05 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: David W. Fenton / 2005/09/25 / 04:21 PM wrote: http://www.dfenton.com/Midi/MozartK581Arr/MozartK581ArrA.mp3 http://www.dfenton.com/Midi/MozartK581Arr/MozartK581ArrA1.mp3 I put them in a spectragraph, averaged between 2"30' and 3"30'.

Re: [Finale] OT: MP3 Compression Comparison

On Sep 26, 2005, at 2:22 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I actually haven't tried creating an MP3 with iTunes itself to see if it made a better MP3 -- I should try it (though I'd miss batch conversion). iTunes for Windows doesn't have batch conversion? Are you sure, as it is a basic part of the

Re: [Finale] move repeat sign

On Sep 26, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Dragos Oltean wrote: view this image http://www.svp-amd.cnet.ro/diverse/finale_repeat.jpg I want to move repeat sign after first note. It's possible?   Thanks, Dragos.   Finale 2006, WinXP___ Dragos, There might be a new

Re: [Finale] OT: MP3 Compression Comparison

On Sep 28, 2005, at 12:08 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: David W. Fenton / 2005/09/26 / 05:40 PM wrote: On 26 Sep 2005 at 14:29, Christopher Smith wrote: . . . All there would be left to do is to compare them with the original (presumably sixteen-bit digital.) I would suppose that the maximum of

Re: [Finale] OT: MP3 Compression Comparison

On Sep 30, 2005, at 4:32 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: The computer which can directly process analogue signals as such has yet to be invented. I've got one between my ears, but it is slow, imprecise, balky, prone to freezes and difficult to upgrade, requiring many long hours of training and

Re: [Finale] Working with lyrics

On Sep 30, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Lon Price wrote: I'm working on a batch of lead sheets, and I'm running into some major annoyances about lyric spacing, word extensions, etc. 1.  Why does Finale not recognize tied notes when avoiding lyric collisions?  When I have an 8th note tied to another not

Re: [Finale] OT: MP3 Compression Comparison

On Sep 30, 2005, at 5:22 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: I've just finished a book espousing the concept of a theistic, unconditional love and grace for ALL (Whoa!). It certainly is not easy to buy into that concept as a mere human being, but I have vowed to attempt it. You believe that unco

Re: [Finale] Staff Paper?

On Oct 4, 2005, at 5:50 PM, Carlberg Jones wrote: Greetings - Without going into it myself, will someone please tell me if Finale can print just staff paper, no clefs, bar lines, etc., to user defined specifications? Hey, since everyone else is doing it... Yes. Christopher (who would also

Re: [Finale] Staff Paper?

On Oct 4, 2005, at 7:15 PM, Carlberg Jones wrote: At 7:06 PM -0400 10/4/05, Christopher Smith wrote: Christopher (who would also jump off a cliff if all his friends were doing it, too) Moo, moo. Or what is the sound buffalos make? Actually, I was wondering what sound lemmings make

Re: [Finale] Staff Paper?

On Oct 5, 2005, at 8:22 AM, dhbailey wrote: Christopher Smith wrote: On Oct 4, 2005, at 7:15 PM, Carlberg Jones wrote: At 7:06 PM -0400 10/4/05, Christopher Smith wrote: Christopher (who would also jump off a cliff if all his friends were doing it, too) Moo, moo. Or what is the sound

Re: [Finale] Staff Style Query

On Oct 8, 2005, at 10:10 PM, Carl Dershem wrote: Hello, there. I'm working on a piece, and some of the stuff I have to do to get the chords input is ... distracting when doing playback (to check for errors, mostly). I've heard there's a ways to set up a staff style for "No Playback", but a

Re: [Finale] Orchestration Question (OT)

On Oct 8, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: I'm finishing a piece for Wind Ensemble. I want a bright, intense, loud shimmering unison (or octaves) in the upper winds on a trill. In adding some perc. to this sound, I'll have the triangle on a trill and would like to add a xylophone

Re: [Finale] Staff Style Query

On Oct 10, 2005, at 12:28 PM, Carl Dershem wrote: I've been using notes (usually the root of the chord) to 'anchor' the chord sybols to, and would like those notes to be quiet. I've tried rests, but can't anchor chords to them. Huh? I've been anchoring chord symbols to rests ever since I

Re: [Finale] Move accidental in WinFin 2004b

On Oct 15, 2005, at 11:55 AM, D. Keneth Fowler wrote: Dear List, The procedure in the manual for moving accidentals seems clear but it is not working for me. I have followed the steps to the point where I am told to drag the accidental. It does not drag. The handle moves but the accidental

Re: [Finale] Collisions of "Roll" Symbols

On Oct 15, 2005, at 9:13 PM, Jacki B. wrote: Hi, Everyone... Is there some way to make Finale 2005b not let "roll" symbols collide with either the notes they're next to or accidentals? I've chosen in Document Options not to let anything collide, but it's still doing it. Short of manually

Re: [Finale] "Fit Music" Doesn't Hold!

On Oct 17, 2005, at 7:14 PM, Jacki B. wrote: Hi again, Everyone... I'm trying to force 3 measures per system by choosing Page Layout and then "Fit Music" and telling it there to put 3 measures per system for the whole document. When I hit OK it does so. However, as soon as I click on any

Re: [Finale] "Fit Music" Doesn't Hold!

On Oct 17, 2005, at 9:02 PM, Jacki B. wrote: on 10/17/05 7:44 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: I just gave it a test drive, and it works perfectly for me. The only ways I can get the system locks to clear is either manually, i.e., in Mass Edit hit cmd-U (don't know the PC equivelant) or

Re: [Finale] "Fit Music" Doesn't Hold!

On Oct 17, 2005, at 9:04 PM, Jacki B. wrote: Oops - I forgot I have one more question along these lines... Is there also some way to make it space the measures more evenly? I still want the measures to be proportional to how many notes are in them, but I have several identical measures and a

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

On Oct 18, 2005, at 6:41 PM, Richard Yates wrote: By the way, I notice that Finale2005 still cannot seem to clean up its temp files when closing and wonder if all of these problems are related somehow. I wonder the same thing. Christopher _

Re: [Finale] Scary bug! How do I reproduce?

On Oct 19, 2005, at 12:37 PM, Phil Daley wrote: At 10/19/2005 11:40 AM, Don Hart wrote: >The only difference I can really point to is that in the attempted >recreation, I had just launched 2006, but when the bug bit I had had Finale >and the file in question open for a few days. I really don

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

On Oct 20, 2005, at 2:40 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: From a database point of view (and Finale files are database files), it's definitely corruption, and of the logical type. There are two types of corruption in a database: 1. logical corruption 2. content corruption. Logical corruption mea

Re: Back up [extracted from Re: [Finale] Scary bug!]

On Oct 20, 2005, at 6:01 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: 3. I have available to me versions of the files in addition to the files whose names I manually incremented, including every save during a working session (not just the file as it stood at the end of the session). I don't really need _a

Re: [Finale] A different printing question

On Oct 21, 2005, at 6:04 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Friend: It is fairly common for printer manufacturers, when stating the number of copies one can expect to obtain from a toner cartridge, to specify a standard density of printing, e.g., "the cartdridge will print xx,xxx copies at five pe

Re: [Finale] Lost files

On Oct 21, 2005, at 8:10 PM, Brennon Bortz wrote: Here’s another stupid question... I have spent all night and all day today writing.  I know this is horrible, but I hadn’t saved my file yet.  I went to print out a draft copy, and Finale (FinMac2006) unexpectedly quit.  Is there anyplace this f

Re: [Finale] Microtonality and Glissandos

On Oct 22, 2005, at 1:00 AM, Owain Sutton wrote: Ahhh, the delights of the nonstandard key signature. One of the most user-unfriendly features of Finale... ::deep breath:: ... (fantastically detailed description of work method snipped) Owain, you are the MAN! I haven't tried your method

[Finale] Jazz version of ChordSuf?

Bill Duncan, Glad to see you on the list, where I can publicly buttonhole you and ask you outright: Any chance of you coming up with a chord suffix font like your brilliant, ingenious ChordSuf, but that matches more closely with the JazzFont, to replace the inadequate JazzCord? I, for one, wo

[Finale] homophones (was changing clefs)

On Oct 22, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Raymond Horton wrote: it really reeks havoc with the score spacing. Since I know from your recent posts that you are the kind of guy who hates to use the wrong homophone, I'm sure you won't take it badly when I point out that you probably meant to say "wreaks."

Re: [Finale] Notes EVERYWHERE

On 21 Oct 2005 at 22:40, bill wrote: I feel really stupid: My Automatic Update in 2k5 upgrade was unchecked after many years of assuming that upgrading to the next "invaluable" version of Finale would preserve previous and relevant settings. This option is set the same as always in my ver

Re: [Finale] Order of notes

On Oct 22, 2005, at 3:26 PM, D. Keneth Fowler wrote: I hope this is not a dumb question. Beat 1, bass staff: upper voice is a whole note middle C ; lower voice is b flat below middle C, stem down. Later upper voice is half note and later upper voice is quarter note. In what order should the

Re: [Finale] Jazz version of ChordSuf?

to do it, as I seem to carry little weight with them on my own. Bill Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:40:15 -0400 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: [Finale] Jazz version of ChordSuf? Bill Duncan, G

Re: [Finale] homophones (was changing clefs)

On Oct 22, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: While the spacing may really have reeked, and havoc may actually have been wrought, the saying in this case is usually, "wreck havoc", for which I sfaik the correct past tense is "wrecked havoc". While I easily found dictionary entries f

Re: [Finale] homophones (was changing clefs)

On Oct 22, 2005, at 5:27 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: On Oct 22, 2005, at 2:22 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:  the expression "wreck havoc" doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Nor to me.  Sounds like a double negative.  If you "wreck havoc," do you restore order?

Re: [Finale] homophones (was changing clefs)

On Oct 23, 2005, at 7:39 AM, dhbailey wrote: You have probably save the lagging conversations at countless parties, preventing them from having to complain yet again about how rainy it's been. You're the perfect dinner guest! :-) Hey, count on me for dinner then, next time I'm in... umm

Re: [Finale] homophones (was changing clefs)

On Oct 23, 2005, at 4:00 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Well, "baton down the hatches" seems to be an Australianism, as if you Google it, a very large proportion of the results are Australian in origin, and none have anything to do with articles about Baton Rouge. This is what's called by linguist

Re: [Finale] trill notation question

On Oct 23, 2005, at 5:41 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Hard to believe that this is the first time I've encountered a situation in which trill notation is ambiguous, but Anyway, I'm in F minor, and there's a flute trill from G flat, and I want it to trill to A flat. Do I indicate tr natural?

Re: [Finale] Ossia, I think

On Oct 23, 2005, at 5:47 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: What is the easiest way to create, in a band score, a notational diagram for the Timp part, to let the player know what pitches will be used? I'll check the ossia proceedure, but if I want just note heads, what's the process? I thin

Re: [Finale] homophones (was changing clefs)

On Oct 23, 2005, at 4:00 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/about/ Off the above link, here's the "baited breath" one that someone here (Robert?) paraphrased: The Cruel Clever Cat, by Ogden Nash (I think!) Sally, having eaten cheese, Directs down holes the scente

Re: [Finale] Lyrics and IPA-Fonts

On Oct 24, 2005, at 6:21 AM, Luís Antunes Pena wrote: Hello, I am having a problem with the IPA-Fonts as Lyrics on Finale 2005 (International Phonetic Alphabet - Font: SILSophiaIPA-Regular). MSWord can show all the characters perfectly but Finale does not represent the accents. I attached a sm

Re: [Finale] Possible new fonts (jazz chords and articulations)

On Oct 24, 2005, at 1:33 AM, bill wrote: I had a thought about about a new articulations font: From what I am hearing, there are not a lot of jazz articulations needed, so I am thinking about an all-inclusive "Articulations" font that contains everything (both jazz and legit). There seems t

Re: [Finale] Possible new fonts (jazz chords and articulations)

On Oct 24, 2005, at 12:05 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Anyone remember Newport font which contained all the useful articulations such as fall? This is one of the reasons I can't open many of my big band charts anymore :-( I have to sight-read jazz chart a few times a week, and I have so many pet

Re: [Finale] Possible new fonts (jazz chords and articulations)

On Oct 24, 2005, at 12:41 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Here are the jazz articulations I use. They are not terrible, but not good either, and they don't match the consistency of Maestro. I haven't been able to figure out how to get the handle positions set on the first two so that they will be

Re: [Finale] Possible new fonts (jazz chords and articulations)

uot;H" numbers for your fall. Don Hart on 10/24/05 1:58 PM, Chuck Israels at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 24, 2005, at 11:33 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: There will always be a problem placing non-centred articulations like a fall or scoop, because the horizontal positioning works

Re: [Finale] Possible new fonts (jazz chords and articulations)

On Oct 24, 2005, at 10:59 PM, John Bell wrote: When computers first began writing music, there was an immediate problem with musicians who were accustomed to reading both from printed and handwritten parts. Printed parts were regarded as somehow official and trustworthy, whereas everyone knew

Re: [Finale] Lyrics and IPA-Fonts

In your position, I would send this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am lost in the world of Unicode and IPA. Sorry. Maybe someone else on the list knows more than I do? Christopher On Oct 25, 2005, at 8:19 AM, Luís Antunes Pena wrote: I am running Finale on Mac. The problem seems to be only with one

[Finale] Unicode problem FinMac 2005b

I'm hoping someone who understands Unicode things can help me. I'm trying to create a page turn arrow as a Measure Expression. Here is one that is similar: ÂZapf Dingbats at 48 pts if you don't have Zapf Dingbats, then you will probably see a capital A with a circumflex. I can create this one

Re: [Finale] Unicode problem FinMac 2005b

aphic? ___ J. Scott Jones Band/Orchestra Director/Freelance Trumpet Player-Teacher/Music Engraver On Oct 25, 2005, at 9:38 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: I'm hoping someone who understands Unicode things can help me. I'm trying to cre

Re: [Finale] Possible new fonts (jazz chords and articulations)

On Oct 26, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: I dunno, I like the jazz font. It's better than ... a ton of other hand-written fonts. Sure I have my issues with some parts of JazzFont (text, arrgh! parenthesised accidentals, yuck! ooh, don't get me started) but I like it in general.

Re: [Finale] Possible new fonts (jazz chords and articulations)

On Oct 26, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: I generally use Jazz for jazz type arrangements, and Maestro for everything else. I think if Bill Duncan can come up with some excellent jazz type articulations that work for Maestro, then I might possibly leave the Jazzfont. I know

Re: [Finale] Opening v2.6 file prob

On Oct 27, 2005, at 2:06 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: I need to do a quick rearrange of one of my old compositions for tonight show. I just opened up the original FinMac2.6 file with FinMac2006. Took me a while to find the source of black objects, which is a common problem. What I assigned bla

Re: [Finale] JazzFont, etc.

On Oct 27, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: While I think the Jazz Font settings look very poor by default, I also think it's very possible to get good results with the font if you spend some time setting up your own template. There are examples on my music prep website, and, not t

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