Re: [Finale] !OT! Macro program
I use Macro Express Pro with Finale and all sorts of other Windows 7 programs. It's $59.95 USD. I too used Quickeys with MacFin a while ago and thought it was really great; QK is a little more user-friendly than ME but ME is extremely powerful. I have a friend who's written some extremely complex macros with it that work more like computer programs. --AP On 9/3/2014 10:20 AM, Barbara Touburg wrote: Hello list, An OT question. I've been using Quickeys for years. After upgrading to Win7premium it stopped working (not compatible). Does anyone know of an affordable macro program which is comparable to Quickeys and compatible with Win7? Thank you very much in advance. Barbara NL ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
[Finale] Unwanted update layout
Finale 2011 on Win7/64. I'm working on some SATB choral music--systems of two staves with lyrics in between. Many of the layouts are horizontally tight, requiring lots of fine-tuning; I'm doing a lot of dragging measures and beat chart editing, along with nudging lyrics right or left to avoid collisions. Once in a while, after I've finished this fine-tuning I'll save the file and move on to doing something else to the piece like entering the title or credit information. But then I'll look at one of the systems I fine-tuned, and it's back to the way it was *before* editing. When I look at the undo/redo list, I see that either before or after the document saved entry (I can't remember which, now, and I can't seem to reproduce the problem), there's an Update Layout, which I didn't ask for. I have automatic update layout turned off, and I did not type Ctrl-U. Saving the file seems to trigger it, but I'm not 100% sure about that. Anyone have a similar experience? I noticed this once before but wasn't smart enough to check the undo/redo list to see if the unwanted update layout was there. Extremely frustrating... and scary to think that a piece you thought was finished has sneakily reverted to a pre-edited state without you realizing it. --Andy Parks ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Invisible bars--thanks... and follow-up
Thanks to Michael, Jef and Christopher for answering my invisible barline question. That's exactly what I was looking for. I neglected to say I need to remove space and the *ends* (not beginnings) of measures, but the suggestions for spacing after music (Doc Opt) and Extra space at end (Measure Tool) were right on. I'd seen those settings before but it never occurred to me to enter a negative number. Duh. Again, thanks. Now my follow-up: why does the space at the beginning of some measures (i.e., after a barline and before the first note) seem to vary, even after spacing music and updating layout? (I'm not talking about when there's an accidental on the first note or a meter change.) I would think that, for the simple situation where a note without accidental follows a barline, that space should be fixed/frozen, based on the value in the Spacing Before Music box. I haven't been using Finale long enough to notice any correlation between something else I'm doing and the appearance of too much space at the beginning of a bar. Hoping someone more experienced can clue me in. Thanks again, --Andy Parks ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Ignore barlines
Is there any way to get Finale's music spacing (Apply Note Spacing) routine to ignore barlines? What I need is for the barlines to still print, but no extra horizontal space to be allotted for them. Why would I make such a crazy request, you ask? I'm working on some hymns. If you look at older, hand-engraved hymn books, most of them employ this spacing technique. With several layers of lyrics, you usually have to steal as much horizontal space as you can to get everything to fit properly, so *not* leaving extra (wasted) space for barlines is one way to accomplish this. I've tried making the barlines invisible and re-spacing. This helps a little, but not enough. If I could somehow take out the barlines, respace, and put them back in (being careful not to re-re-space!) that might be an option, but it seems like that might have other unintended side effects. Have any of you had to do this? --Andy Parks ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Re: Another fi/fl ligature question (probably OT)
Thanks for all the responses to my dilemma. It's still not working (no ligatures), but I wanted to respond to some of the comments people made, in case it sparks any more ideas. Here goes: Apologies if this is obvious, but did you make sure to remove the OTF version of Times New Roman from your system? I actually hadn't done that. But when I did remove it (and you wouldn't believe how many hoops you have to go through to do it in Win7), I got same result: no ligatures. But also be sure the font character is within the first 256 -- beyond that it might show up on screen (via the Windows OS) but not print or embed. They are--the fi/fl ligatures are cap X and W in the expert font, as they are in most expert fonts I've used. The best advice was earlier -- create a modified font with that character in the legal area, replacing something you don't use at all. I agree--that's great advice. The problem is, the publisher wants the Finale files once the project is done, and without the new font, no ligatures. And I don't think it's legal for me to give such a font to them. This may or may not be relevant but I just discovered that if I export an EPS, Distill it, open the PDF in Illustrator, Save out as a PDF that ligatures happen automatically. This is on a MAC, not sure if they same would happen on Windows. I would try this, but Distiller errors out when I try to distill the Finale EPS. One thing I notice, after opening the Finale EPS file in a text editor to see if anything funny is going on with the font, is that Finale is trying to embed a font called TimesNewRomanPSMT. But according to the font's .inf and .afm files, the name is really TimesNRExpertMT. I have a feeling that's why the font (fi ligature) isn't printing in my test file, but I'm not sure where Finale is getting that name. I realize this is a pretty obscure problem, and again, I've gone on too long. But I appreciate any help I can get. --Andy Parks ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Another fi/fl ligature question (probably OT)
Yeah, I'm the one who asked last week about fi/fl ligatures in Open Type fonts. To review: Windows 7/64 bit, Fin2011; font is Times New Roman. We've given up trying to make it work in Open Type. Now, we're trying it with the PostScript version of TNR. This is a big (many pages) book with a large print run, and the printers I've worked with strongly encourage PS text fonts. I have the TNR Expert font (which contains the fl/fi ligatures). I've installed it according to Windows 7 instructions and can see it in my \Windows\Fonts directory. When I insert an fi or fl ligature character in my Finale file, I can see it on screen. But it won't print... either to my PS printer or to a PDF file; all I get is a blank spot where the character is supposed to be. Contacted Finale support and they had me export to an EPS file and then distill it (I was earlier just using the Adobe PDF printer driver in the Print menu). It errored out, with the following error message: %%[ Error: not found. Font cannot be embedded. ]%% %%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: findfont ]%% Stack: /Font / %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %% Distill Time: 00 Hour(s) : 00 Minute(s) : 00.78 Second(s) Other than that, they had no ideas. Contacted the font vendor and struck out there as well. One final bit of information: I get the same behavior in MS Word (2003), but it *does* work (print and PDF) in QuarkXpress 8.x. Any PostScript font gurus out there? Sorry about the long post. --Andy Parks Green Bay, WI ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Times New Roman fi fl ligatures
Greetings, I'm new to the list but searched the archives (and Web in general) before asking the list; I apologize if I missed something and this is an overworked topic... WinFin 2011, 64-bit. I have a customer who has specified OpenType Times New Roman for the text font. I checked with MM tech support who confirmed that, contrary to what it says in their Knowledge Base, Finale *will* recognize the first 255 characters of an OT font. My question is, does anyone know how to get fi and fl ligatures given the above constraints? I'm used to working in PostScript (fonts and otherwise), and the OpenType world is new territory for me. I don't see an OT Expert Font on the Monotype website (and they're not responding to my emails asking about this). I hope someone can shed some light, or at least point me to some resources elsewhere I may have missed. --Andy Parks ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
