Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 development cycle?

2004-06-25 Thread Phil Daley
haven't said anything ;-) I am using FinWin3.7.2 which does everything I need. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] free pdf writer

2004-07-29 Thread Phil Daley
http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp Don't know how good it is. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Back to EPS

2004-11-17 Thread Phil Daley
technology that they used to connect to the scanner. However, since I had an old unused computer, I installed Win98 on it and I now have a scanning station. I wouldn't hold your breath ;-) Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley

Re: [Finale] Measure number zero

2004-12-02 Thread Phil Daley
At 12/2/2004 01:36 PM, John Howell wrote: The Christian calendar is no more and no less than a King List ... with ONLY ONE KING! This is Anno Domine (Year of our Lord) 2004. AD stands for the Latin (spelling not guaranteed!). It's the BC (before Christ) convention of numbering backwards that

Re: [Finale] MacFin2005a AutoSave hang

2004-12-08 Thread Phil Daley
Paste a sticky note on your monitor ;-) At 12/8/2004 12:23 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: That works fine, so long as you remember to do it. I forgot I had a blank document open, in addition to the score I was working on. Hence the hang. On 08 Dec 2004, at 12:17 PM, Phil Daley wrote: At 12/8

Re: [Finale] OT: Some e-mail tips

2004-12-13 Thread Phil Daley
At 12/13/2004 11:00 AM, John Poole [Finale Discussion] wrote: Anyone who use a Windows email program should consider Thunderbird as the better alternative. I have no negative opinions about Microsoft's email client (and not much experience), however, the critical problem that makes it an

Re: [Finale] OT: Who are you?

2004-12-26 Thread Phil Daley
At 02:54 PM 12/25/2004, Bob Florence wrote: I receive so many e mails from the address listed above. I have met quite a few of you. However, I would love to know a little background of each and all of you. Are you a musician? Are you active? Are you retired? Where are you from and where are

Re: [Finale] Re: Who are you?

2005-01-03 Thread Phil Daley
It occurred to me that I did play for a 1/2 year with one well known musician: Grover Washington Jr. It was '65-'66 and we were both in the Army Band at Fort Dix, NJ. That was when he bought his first Soprano sax and he used to jam for hours on end.

Re: [Finale] OT: Who are you?

2005-01-03 Thread Phil Daley
At 1/3/2005 01:59 PM, Ryan Beard wrote: I perform with the La Jolla Symphony http://www.lajollasymphony.com, Christian Community Theater http://cctcyt.org, and San Diego Junior Theatre http://www.juniortheatre.com/. I've been on the sub list for the San Diego Symphony for nearly three years now.

Re: [Finale] email filtering misuse

2005-01-11 Thread Phil Daley
At 1/10/2005 06:56 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I do *not* understand the hostility to the system itself -- it looks like your garden-variety Luddite response to me. That's because the system is stupid and annoying. I would never answer one of those challenges.

Re: [Finale] email filtering misuse

2005-01-11 Thread Phil Daley
At 1/10/2005 06:35 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: The Postal Service already filters your email and doesn't send you mail that isn't legit (like mail that's addressed to a different person, but at your address). Uh, no, that is NOT how the postal service works. Phil Daley AutoDesk http

Re: [Finale] email filtering misuse

2005-01-11 Thread Phil Daley
At 1/10/2005 09:28 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: If you're *not* receiving all your spam and evaluating for false positives on a regular basis, then you're losing some percentage of legitimate messages. This is obviously your personal opinion since, as a blanket statement, it is false.

Re: [Finale] email filtering misuse

2005-01-11 Thread Phil Daley
At 1/10/2005 08:01 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: The red flag is there to keep us from plunging over that abyss. You're verging on conspiracy-nut territory here. It simply sounds like your ISP is doing a very bad job at filtering spam. I agree. Of the 500 email spams I get a day, 495 are filtered

Re: [Finale] email filtering misuse

2005-01-11 Thread Phil Daley
At 1/11/2005 07:52 AM, Simon Troup wrote: If you're *not* receiving all your spam and evaluating for false positives on a regular basis, then you're losing some percentage of legitimate messages. This is obviously your personal opinion since, as a blanket statement, it is false. Sorry,

Re: [Finale] email filtering misuse

2005-01-11 Thread Phil Daley
At 1/11/2005 08:44 AM, Simon Troup wrote: If you're *not* receiving all your spam and evaluating for false positives on a regular basis, then you're losing some percentage of legitimate messages. This is obviously your personal opinion since, as a blanket statement, it is false. Sorry, so

Re: [Finale] email filtering misuse

2005-01-12 Thread Phil Daley
At 06:26 PM 1/11/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: On 11 Jan 2005 at 6:42, Phil Daley wrote: At 1/10/2005 09:28 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: If you're *not* receiving all your spam and evaluating for false positives on a regular basis, then you're losing some percentage of legitimate messages

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-01-31 Thread Phil Daley
At 1/31/2005 01:38 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: A historical precedent that I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned here so far is sound film. The introduction of movie soundtracks in 1929 put thousands of pit musicians out of work almost overnight, just months before the start of the Great Depression.

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-01-31 Thread Phil Daley
composition course (taught by Charles Whittenburg) who IMHO thought he was far superior than my thinking. I am curious, has anyone ever heard of him? (no UCONN students need respond ;-) Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley

Re: [Finale] OT Buying sheet music

2005-02-01 Thread Phil Daley
At 1/31/2005 04:47 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Kinda embarrassing question but I'd appreciate any recommendation what I should be looking for and if possible to find a good place to purchase online. I have found JWPepper a good online site. And you can establish an account and they will just bill

[Finale] Re: OT: Future of the arts

2005-02-01 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/1/2005 06:05 AM, dhbailey wrote: I don't think we're in the twilight of our art form at all -- I think we might be facing a more realistic place of the arts in a more egalitarian society than that of past centuries where the nobility and the higher levels of the clergy (bishops on up to

Re: [Finale] a finale challenge

2005-02-02 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/2/2005 11:11 AM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: I can't believe I copied out my entire Master's Thesis (87 pages of a wind ensemble score) by hand, using india ink and Cameo paper. I did have the advantage of a hi-tech electric eraser, which sometimes left holes in the paper when pressed too hard.

Re: [Finale] iKey woes

2005-02-03 Thread Phil Daley
is that they use the shortened file names of long file names. Mac has always been: New versions? old apps won't run. My Mac SE is still running 6.x. It wouldn't run V7 because it doesn't have a hard drive. Mac users have to be tough individuals to begin with, so they just suck it up ;-) Phil Daley

Re: [Finale] iKey woes

2005-02-03 Thread Phil Daley
. That what device drivers are for . . . Oh, wait. Unix doesn't support device drivers. You have to rebuild the kernel. How awkward and inconvenient. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Phil Daley
lived in the early 1800s. They all submitted papers based on this fictitious women, complete with dates, repertoire, etc. He was quite taken aback that he had never heard of this composer up until he figured out it was a hoax. Good thing that he had a good sense of humor ;-) Phil Daley

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-04 Thread Phil Daley
and absolutely consonant respectively, and without regard to musical context. This seems obvious to me, growing up in the west. I wonder if people who grew up in the east see that situation the same way? Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-02-07 Thread Phil Daley
that they reached the successfulness of Cage, but then, I don't know who they are. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT File Downloading

2005-02-08 Thread Phil Daley
is that it hasn't been challenged and, therefore, there was no incentive for MS to spend bucks on improving it (other than security issues). If you think Firefox, etc is going to challenge MS monopoly on the browser, you can bet your booties that MS will be improving it very soon. Phil Daley

Re: [Finale] OT File Downloading

2005-02-08 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/8/2005 12:35 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: On Tuesday, February 8, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Phil Daley wrote: I just read an article today that said the problem with IE is that it hasn't been challenged and, therefore, there was no incentive for MS to spend bucks on improving it (other than

Re: [Finale] OT File Downloading

2005-02-08 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/8/2005 12:53 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 08 Feb 2005, at 12:20 PM, Phil Daley wrote: If you think Firefox, etc is going to challenge MS monopoly on the browser, you can bet your booties that MS will be improving it very soon. Phil, we are talking about Macs here. Microsoft has

Re: [Finale] OT File Downloading

2005-02-08 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/8/2005 01:39 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:00:57 -0500, Phil Daley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hadn't heard that, and, if true, a stupid move on their part. The Mac is starting to gain ground at the expense of Windows, as opposed to Linux gaining ground at the expense

Re: [Finale] [OT] tech help

2008-08-14 Thread Phil Daley
At 8/13/2008 10:45 PM, Carl Dershem wrote: My brother just bought a new PC with Windows Vista on it, and wonders how to transfer his Outlook address book and bookmarks to it. Do any of you with less obsolete technical skills than I have any hints? Just like any other windows PC except, you

Re: [Finale] TAN^2: building a database for a music library

2008-08-20 Thread Phil Daley
At 8/19/2008 10:54 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Yeah David, your right. I know nothing. I suppose the 2 years I made money doing the rather boring work of being a DBA doesn't mean anything. Wow, you sure fooled your bosses. ___ Finale mailing list

[Finale] TAN: Wireless hi-fi

2008-08-21 Thread Phil Daley
I have a receiver with wires running to the speakers. Is it possible to replace the wires with a transmitter/receiver package that would allow one to move speakers anywhere without running wires? Thanks. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-26 Thread Phil Daley
At 8/25/2008 05:00 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Allen Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the help button that's right in dialogs? If I click the help button, it no longer knows which field I was in. I want help specific to exactly where I am, not just to

Re: [Finale] Check

2008-10-10 Thread Phil Daley
The list is working At 10/10/2008 02:25 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Is anybody out there, or have I been unsubscribed again? Dean Dean M. Estabrook http://deanestabrook.googlepages.com/home When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I have finished, if the

Re: [Finale] International Phonetic Alphabet

2009-01-09 Thread Phil Daley
thought. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] International Phonetic Alphabet

2009-01-10 Thread Phil Daley
At 1/9/2009 04:28 PM, Javier Ruiz wrote: The first change is to turn Unicode on in all the projects. All 1000 of them. Change char for wchar_t in the source code and recompile. That was the second change, about 250,000 of them. Strings are the hardest part. Phil Daley AutoDesk

Re: [Finale] errors

2009-01-19 Thread Phil Daley
We had a printer at work that used to do that. They added more memory and the errors went away. At 1/19/2009 08:58 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: I have a couple of Finale files that produce PostScript errors from the Print Monitor. I don't understand what a PS error isbut I do know that

[Finale] Cakewalk info

2009-02-09 Thread Phil Daley
My wife bought a new portable piano and got a CD with Cakewalk on it. Can someone give a brief explanation of what it is and should I install it? Thanks. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Cakewalk info

2009-02-10 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/9/2009 04:45 PM, dhbailey wrote: Cakewalk is a sequencer program -- it's like a digital tape recorder so you can attach the keyboard to your computer via midi cables or a USB cable if one came with the keyboard and set Cakewalk to record and it will record all the midi data. It has a

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

[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

Re: [Finale] Re: Desktop

2009-02-12 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/11/2009 04:17 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: So, in reality, the order of your list ought to be: 1981 -- Xerox Star 1983 -- Apple Lisa 1984 -- Apple Macintosh 1985 -- Microsoft Windows 1 1987 -- IBM OS/2 (April) 1987 -- Microsoft Windows 2 (October) 1990 -- Microsoft Windows 3 1993 --

Re: [Finale] Splash screen

2009-02-12 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/12/2009 05:28 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 12 Feb 2009 at 17:12, dhbailey wrote: Blake Richardson wrote: Actually it was original at the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) and Apple stole it from them and then Microsoft stole it from Apple No, Apple *licensed* it from

Re: [Finale] rests in pick up measure

2009-03-11 Thread Phil Daley
What about a dotted half rest? At 3/11/2009 02:28 PM, Ryan Beard wrote: Hi List, In Common time, I have a pick-up measure of 3 quarter notes. For the instruments who don't play, would you prefer to see: 3 quarter rests 1 quarter rest and 1 half rest Is there a correct answer for this case or

Re: [Finale] Re: rests in pick up measure

2009-03-13 Thread Phil Daley
At 3/13/2009 06:21 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 13 Mar 2009 at 16:18, Ray Horton wrote: Dotted half rests, in non-compound meters, give the music an amateurish appearance, just as a conversational tone might tarnish an article for a scholarly journal. Y'know what I mean? Whenever I see a

[Finale] hiding rests

2009-05-04 Thread Phil Daley
I have a score that I hid rests in a long time ago and I have forgotten how to do it. Can someone help me? Oh, is it possible to move rests vertically? Thanks, Phil ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] hiding rests

2009-05-04 Thread Phil Daley
At 5/4/2009 04:44 PM, dhbailey wrote: Yes, it's possible to move rests vertically -- click and drag them to where you want them to be. Hide notes/rests with the o (letter o, not zero) and if they're already hidden, hit the o key again to unhide them. Which tool do I have selected while I am

RE: [Finale] hiding rests

2009-05-04 Thread Phil Daley
At 5/4/2009 04:54 PM, Lee Actor wrote: You can also hide/unhide notes and rests with the H key. Seems more intuitive to me than O. I select the Note Position Tool and it puts a handle above the rest. I click the handle and it selects. I press H, O, * whatever, nothing happens.

RE: [Finale] hiding rests

2009-05-04 Thread Phil Daley
At 5/4/2009 05:15 PM, Barbara Touburg wrote: At 5/4/2009 04:54 PM, Lee Actor wrote: You can also hide/unhide notes and rests with the H key. Seems more intuitive to me than O. I select the Note Position Tool and it puts a handle above the rest. I click the handle and it selects. I press H,

Re: [Finale] EPS to MS Word

2009-05-28 Thread Phil Daley
Not an expert on this. I wonder if you installed the Microsoft XPS document printer and printed to that, if it would be more compatible? At 5/28/2009 09:23 AM, Greg Scheer wrote: I frequently export EPS files from Finale (2008a.r1 for Mac) for use in our church bulletins. The secretary

Re: [Finale] EPS to MS Word

2009-05-28 Thread Phil Daley
No go. While it makes a nice web document, word can't read it, sorry. At 5/28/2009 09:42 AM, Phil Daley wrote: Not an expert on this. I wonder if you installed the Microsoft XPS document printer and printed to that, if it would be more compatible? At 5/28/2009 09:23 AM, Greg Scheer wrote

Re: [Finale] Re: Sibelius 6 :: Finale discouraging upgrades

2009-05-31 Thread Phil Daley
At 5/31/2009 01:14 PM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: I agree with your comments about the trade-offs of filters versus XML. I would be just as happy if I knew I could send a 2010 filter to any collaborators so that they could open my 2010 files. Not to nitpick, but 2 additional points: 1) Even in a

Re: [Finale] Re: WHAT Sibelius can't do

2009-06-27 Thread Phil Daley
I expect the users who were tested were not that familiar with the keyboard shortcuts. It's obviously faster to make a few keystrokes that navigating a set of menus with a mouse. At 6/26/2009 09:33 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 27 Jun 2009 at 2:20, Owain Sutton wrote: David W. Fenton

Re: [Finale] Re: WHAT Sibelius can't do

2009-06-28 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/28/2009 12:56 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Until you can demonstrate that the research is flawed and produces unreliable results, I'm going to believe those who've actually taken the time to design mechanisms for testing the proposition, rather than going with the gut feelings of individual

Re: [Finale] Re: WHAT Sibelius can't do

2009-06-30 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/29/2009 09:00 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 29 Jun 2009 at 20:53, Christopher Smith wrote: On Jun 29, 2009, at 8:35 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 29 Jun 2009 at 13:33, Christopher Smith wrote: I'm just saying that just because the study may be valid, it doesn't mean it applies to

Re: [Finale] Hauptstimme

2009-09-10 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/9/2009 11:35 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: But I don't think Toccatta was really part of Finale, I thought that was a shareware thing by Blake Hodgetts. I don't have Toccatta on my system. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

[Finale] Hiding rests

2009-09-10 Thread Phil Daley
I have an old version of Finale (3.7), but I am pretty sure there was a way to hide rests, but I have forgotten it. Any help appreciated. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Hiding rests

2009-09-10 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/10/2009 04:33 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Chuck Israels wrote: hit the letter O in later versions, I think this has not changed. Which is what I do, but I always use speedy entry, and I'm not sure it works in simple entry, so you may have to switch to speedy to hide the rests. That's it.

[Finale] moving rests

2009-09-11 Thread Phil Daley
Is it possible to move rests vertically, so they don't bump into notes in other layers? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-22 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/22/2009 05:07 PM, dhbailey wrote: Excellent -- do you also know George Kent, who has accompanied Edward Tarr on many occasions? Is he fairly old? I had a George Kent (fantastic trumpet player) teach me clarinet at Stonington High School in 1963. He showed me an F-trumpet, I had never

Re: [Finale] Trumpet question

2009-09-22 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/22/2009 06:52 PM, dhbailey wrote: Phil Daley wrote: At 9/22/2009 05:07 PM, dhbailey wrote: Excellent -- do you also know George Kent, who has accompanied Edward Tarr on many occasions? Is he fairly old? I had a George Kent (fantastic trumpet player) teach me clarinet

Re: [Finale] Interesting behavior

2009-09-30 Thread Phil Daley
From what I have seen, string instruments are more comfortable playing in sharps. Trombones are more comfortable playing in flats. At 9/30/2009 01:40 PM, Carl Dershem wrote: I'm working on a big band piece that has a section in 7 flats (C-Flat) in the middle. Oddly enough, the guitar and

Re: [Finale] OT: trying to upgrade browsers

2010-03-16 Thread Phil Daley
I see an Agree and Install now button about halfway down the screen. At 3/16/2010 01:33 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: On Mar 15, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Andrew, YouTube (and most other online video) is Flash-based. You will need to download the latest version of Flash

Re: [Finale] OT: Google Search

2010-07-11 Thread Phil Daley
At 7/11/2010 09:29 AM, Nigel Hanley wrote: I receive Google alerts whenever someone searches for my blog, or my name, which is hardly ever, but last night I got one and instead of it being from How do you sign up for alerts? ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] 64 bit

2010-10-11 Thread Phil Daley
At 10/10/2010 11:18 PM, David McKay wrote: I'm contemplating buying a new computer which is a 64 bit 6 gigs ram, 1 TB hard drive and other stuff. I haven't owned a 64 bit computer before. Will most programs run on a 64 bit computer? Will the latest version of Finale run on a 64 bit computer?

Re: [Finale] 64 bit

2010-10-11 Thread Phil Daley
At 10/11/2010 04:56 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 12 Oct 2010 at 7:50, David McKay wrote: If 64 bit Windows won't let you use Flash, does that mean no Youtube? Couldn't imagine a life without Youtube at call. Eek! I don't know who said 64-bit Windows does not support Flash. It's simply not

Re: [Finale] 64 bit

2010-10-12 Thread Phil Daley
At 10/11/2010 08:59 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: On 10/11/2010 4:56 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I don't know who said 64-bit Windows does not support Flash. It's simply not true. Absolute balderdash. I think the issue is that there is still not an official release of a 64-bit Flash plugin, just a

Re: [Finale] Completely O.T.

2010-12-20 Thread Phil Daley
At 12/20/2010 02:51 PM, John Howell wrote: At 7:27 AM -0800 12/20/10, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: I have an ex student F.B. friend, who wants to know if the last line of this Old English version means deliver us from evil, or from Yule. Any experts? Dean What's F.B.? Fullback? Wow! You are

Re: [Finale] dotted notes

2011-02-03 Thread Phil Daley
As a performer, I find the second extremely confusing. It would not be a good sight read. I should think both notes would need dots. At 2/3/2011 10:26 AM, dc wrote: I don't assume it's kosher to have two voices with only one notehead (and two stems), with a dot that only applies to one

Re: [Finale] OS X 10.7 Lion drops support for Rosetta (PPC) apps

2011-02-28 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/28/2011 02:02 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I am just mystified as to why Apple thinks this is an insignificant enough issue that they don't provide some kind of backward compatibility option. Or, failing that from Apple itself, why somebody else doesn't step up and build it. I have always

Re: [Finale] Perfect bug storm

2011-06-10 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/9/2011 11:34 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: So I've known for some time that Fin08 Mac has a bug that it prints blank pages under certain conditions. The way to work around it is to print to PDF with the Generic Postscript driver and then print the PDF with the proper printer driver. Here is

Re: [Finale] Clefs for Tenors in Choir

2011-09-15 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/14/2011 10:13 PM, Scott wrote: As for my personal tastes, having performed pieces ranging from the medieval to the modern, my first choice would of course be the tenor clef. But, when forced to make a choice between the bass clef and the treble 8 clef, I very much prefer reading the

Re: [Finale] Tenor-singers Clefs Discussion wrapup

2011-09-17 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/16/2011 11:56 PM, John Howell wrote: By rights we should require good sightreading as a prerequisite before we accepted any student as a college music major, but if we actually did that we wouldn't have any voice majors at all (except the smart ones, many of whom started taking piano

Re: [Finale] Tenor-singers Clefs Discussion wrapup

2011-09-18 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/18/2011 01:57 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Music as a discipline has been shown in studies to improve the ability of students to reason and think. Thus, time spent on teaching music properly could make the other teaching more efficient. We had plenty of time for music when I was a kid. I

Re: [Finale] OT: Selling PDFs

2012-03-28 Thread Phil Daley
At 3/28/2012 09:26 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: On 3/28/2012 7:49 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: I have been selling my music as PDFs for a while now and was wondering the same things. I recently ordered some music from another composer by means of PDF and email, and noticed that when I got it

Re: [Finale] The current spam epidemic

2012-04-23 Thread Phil Daley
Not only have I not gotten any Spam email from the list, I haven't gotten any Spam email from the list in the SPAM mailbox. So I think that means the list has not sent any. Somebody must be specifically targeting you. At 4/23/2012 07:13 AM, Adam Taylor wrote: I think it may be your spam

Re: [Finale] OT: Australia

2012-05-03 Thread Phil Daley
I spent 3 weeks in Feb. in Australia. A wonderful country. I went to both Sydney and Melbourne. I guess I missed you ;-) At 5/3/2012 08:02 AM, Frank Prain wrote: Thank you, that would be lovely, but I'll have to refuse as I'm actually in Melbourne. :-) Hope you enjoy your trip. cheers

Re: [Finale] OT: Woodblocks in orchestra

2012-06-03 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/3/2012 12:38 PM, John Howell wrote: At 10:57 AM -0500 6/3/12, Robert Patterson wrote: A question came up at a rehearsal the other day. Does anyone know what piece has the first use of a woodblock in an orchestra? Whatever it was, it was probably in China a number of centuries ago!

Re: [Finale] staff-stave usage, was: Re: rests in layers

2012-06-14 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/14/2012 08:14 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: On Thu, June 14, 2012 7:36 am, Florence + Michael wrote: Here's what Elaine Gould writes To keep the stave as uncluttered as possible Just curious: Do you use 'stave' for the singular form? It sounds odd to me, even though it's

Re: [Finale] staff-stave usage, was: Re: rests in layers

2012-06-14 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/14/2012 02:46 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: Since we're on lexicography, can anybody explain why sharps, flats and naturals are called accidentals? Because they cause accidents when playing??? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] erratic cautionary accidental plugin

2012-09-22 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/22/2012 11:01 AM, Michael Mathew wrote: Patrick, Your lackadaisical attitude towards cautionary accidentals will lead to many misinterpretations of your music. Cautionary accidentals are necessary to avoid any confusion about the pitch of a note, thank you very much! Don't be lazy!

Re: [Finale] Strophic settings

2013-01-19 Thread Phil Daley
Current church hymnals have up to 6. I think more than 4 becomes harder to read. At 1/19/2013 07:50 AM, dc wrote: I'm afraid this question has already been asked, possibly by me! How many verses can decently be put under the same music without it becoming very hard to read? I'd say three

Re: [Finale] Strophic settings

2013-01-19 Thread Phil Daley
Yes, but . . . Verses on a different page are even harder to read than multiple ones under the music. Of course, maybe you wouldn't have to sing those ;-) At 1/19/2013 10:06 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: I agree with Phil Daley that more than 4 becomes hard to read, even though some currently

Re: [Finale] different syllabification in different verses

2013-01-21 Thread Phil Daley
At 1/21/2013 12:05 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: On Jan 21, 2013, at 5:35 AM, dc wrote: Many thanks to all for the sound advice. I'm still wondering if the reduction is absolutely necessary or not - i.e. whether it makes things clearer or not. I have three verses, but never more than two

Re: [Finale] different syllabification in different verses

2013-01-21 Thread Phil Daley
Exactly. It would be way too confusing to do that to 4 part hymns. At 1/21/2013 01:38 PM, dc wrote: Le 21/01/2013 19:14, Phil Daley écrit : I don't get it at all. Where is the alto line? What it the bottom clef? Tenor or bass? It doesn't have any help for any verse

Re: [Finale] copying to layers

2013-03-18 Thread Phil Daley
At 3/18/2013 02:40 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: It's interesting that you consider Finale more intuitive now -- I'm working with it less and less and I find Finale2012 to be very unintuitive to me. That's a good part of why I'm working with it less and less. I will be honest and admit that

Re: [Finale] OT: what to do with old computer

2013-03-29 Thread Phil Daley
At 3/29/2013 05:59 PM, Ryan wrote: Hi list, Looking for ideas on what to do with my old 24'' iMac. Back in November the hard drive failed and I replaced it to finish a project. When the new iMacs came out earlier this year I upgraded. But since the old machine has a brand new hard drive, I'm

Re: [Finale] ties/accidentals over system breaks

2005-09-08 Thread Phil Daley
accidental. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] OT: Firefox

2005-09-09 Thread Phil Daley
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10801,104504,00.html?source=NLT_AMnid=104504 Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman

[Finale] OT: Composition for the non-musical

2005-09-13 Thread Phil Daley
This is pretty interesting: http://tones.wolfram.com/generate/ Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

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

2005-09-14 Thread Phil Daley
, instead of recognizing that music in a particular style is very *conventional* rather than random. For those who don't know, David probably does, Wolfram is the guy behind Mathmatica. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley

[Finale] OT: More Flaws in Firefox Than IE

2005-09-29 Thread Phil Daley
. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Missing dll files

2005-10-10 Thread Phil Daley
At 10/9/2005 11:47 AM, Barbara Touburg wrote: I have finally installed FinaleWin 2005 and now it says it is missing a couple of dll files. Also, it won't shut down properly. Questions: Where do I find the missing files? What are their names? Phil Daley AutoDesk http

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-18 Thread Phil Daley
, my resume will be out to recruiters within 15 minutes ;-) Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

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

2005-10-19 Thread Phil Daley
;-) Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] Software quality

2005-10-19 Thread Phil Daley
.” Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread Phil Daley
At 10/20/2005 12:31 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: If an undelete program that works like the one I have were free and worked as well (no performance penalty and complete stability), would you use it? Yes, is there one? I used to use Norton Undelete on WinNT but it stopped working on Win2K. Phil

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

2005-10-20 Thread Phil Daley
know that by now ;-) As long as I am posting, let me say that Dave Fenton's posts on Windows' backup stuff has been excellent and right on the money. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale

Re: [Finale] Scary bug!

2005-10-20 Thread Phil Daley
on for 2 minutes, every 2 minutes another copy of your work is saved in the super trash bin. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

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