Re: [Finale] I can’t remember how to insert a space in lyrics!

2019-09-12 Thread Doug Walter
I think it’s Option-Space on Mac (assuming you mean adding a space within one word or syllable). Doug > On Sep 12, 2019, at 9:16 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz > wrote: > > On 2019-09-12 12:14, Raymond Horton wrote: >> And the documentation is no help. Frustrating! > > On Windows, a hard space

Re: [Finale] OT: pop orchestration

2019-06-02 Thread Doug Walter
You’ll probably get a lot of good answers; here are a few great examples I can vouch for from personal experience: Don Sebesky - “The Contemporary Arranger” Rayburn Wright - “Inside the Score: A Detailed Analysis of 8 Classic Jazz Ensemble Charts by Sammy Nestico, Thad Jones, and Bob

[Finale] Multi-part staves in large scores (Fin 25)

2019-03-03 Thread Doug Walter
I know the topic of trying to use voiced parts (all but useless to me as it stands) has been covered and I’ve tried all the workarounds at various times and know the issues, so I’m not asking about that. The TGTools plug-in “Smart Explosion of multi-part staves…” often yields better results,

Re: [Finale] Dorico 2

2018-05-31 Thread Doug Walter
I’m not anywhere near switching, but I’ve been following Dorico’s development with more than a little interest. Such informative posts like this one are quite useful and much appreciated - thanks for such a detailed, well-thought-out, well-stated comparison and review. Doug > On May 31, 2018,

Re: [Finale] What is the Finale strategy?

2018-04-18 Thread Doug Walter
I don’t have any insights as to what their plans might be, although given the decades of work that I’ve done with the program, I certainly hope they keep it alive. Mostly I’m responding here to second (LOUDLY) the desire for vastly improved layout capabilities. It’s only thanks to the

Re: [Finale] Measure width before or after multimeasure rest

2018-03-23 Thread Doug Walter
> used to some visual signal that gives an idea of relative length, and I find > Jari’s plugin indispensable. It makes things look the way I like to see them. > > Chuck > >> On Mar 23, 2018, at 10:20 AM, Doug Walter <dewalt3...@me.com> wrote: >> >> Has anyone found a

[Finale] Measure width before or after multimeasure rest

2018-03-23 Thread Doug Walter
Has anyone found any sort of global solution to the annoying habit of Finale to make a single measure on a line that also includes a multimeasure rest WAY too wide? Simplest example: first bar on the line (4/4) has, say, a quarter note on the downbeat followed by rests, then the next bar is a

Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan Rehearsal fonts

2018-03-08 Thread Doug Walter
the end. Then each letter acquires > both brackets. Hope I’m remembering this right. Don’t have Finale with me. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 8, 2018, at 9:20 PM, Doug Walter <dewalt3...@me.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks, Chuck, but Christopher alread

Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan Rehearsal fonts

2018-03-08 Thread Doug Walter
Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 8, 2018, at 6:28 PM, Doug Walter <dewalt3...@me.com> wrote: >> >> I know there’s still a handful of folks here using Bill Duncan’s fonts in >> various combinations, perhaps most notably the chord symbol one(s). I still >> hav

Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan Rehearsal fonts

2018-03-08 Thread Doug Walter
ing enclosure character AFTER the gray box. It will > not sequence like the letters inside the box, so they will stay the same. > > Try this out. If you need more specific instructions, write back. > > Christopher > > >> On Thu Mar 8, at ThursdayMar 8 9:28 PM, Doug Walter <dewalt3..

[Finale] Bill Duncan Rehearsal fonts

2018-03-08 Thread Doug Walter
I know there’s still a handful of folks here using Bill Duncan’s fonts in various combinations, perhaps most notably the chord symbol one(s). I still haven’t found or managed to create any chord symbol font that I like better than his and continue to use it in Finale files that I know I won’t

Re: [Finale] Notation Question/Clarification

2017-06-24 Thread Doug Walter
My guess would be that the first note in the RH is supposed to precede the first note in the LH, with the last note in the RH being played at the very end, totaling 8 separate notes. I think it's just notated a bit sloppily. Doug > On Jun 23, 2017, at 8:06 PM, Blake Richardson

Re: [Finale] (Not) reducing text expressions

2016-09-21 Thread Doug Walter
omaStudios > > > >> On Sep 21, 2016, at 10:29 AM, Doug Walter <dew...@earthlink.net> wrote: >> >> I’ve always meant to ask this and it came up again . . . >> >> When I add a text expression to reduced-size notes - cue notes, e.g. - if I >> d

[Finale] (Not) reducing text expressions

2016-09-21 Thread Doug Walter
I’ve always meant to ask this and it came up again . . . When I add a text expression to reduced-size notes - cue notes, e.g. - if I don’t want the text reduced by the same percentage as the note heads, I have to Control-click the handle, select Edit Expression Assignment, then UNcheck the box

Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan fonts and Mavericks

2014-04-17 Thread Doug Walter
I had one more question about this and remembered this exchange from a month ago. Which version of the Duncan fonts are folks using successfully - the original, or the updated ones that all have “FP” at the beginning of the name that came with the bundled Finale Productivity Suite sold by NPC

Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan fonts and Mavericks

2014-04-17 Thread Doug Walter
strongly over the alternatives that I would be unhappy without them - the soft chord slashes and rhythmic notation being the most important. All the best, Chuck On Apr 17, 2014, at 8:10 AM, Doug Walter dew...@earthlink.net wrote: I had one more question about this and remembered

Re: [Finale] Finale 2014a and Lion (OS X 10.7.5)

2014-01-17 Thread Doug Walter
wrote: If you can, upgrade to 10.9.1 finale 2015 works fine and so do the original bill Duncan fonts Sent from my iSomething -- Eric Dannewitz Musician/Polymath/Evil Genius http://www.ericdannewitz.com On Jan 16, 2014, at 10:03 PM, Doug Walter dew...@earthlink.net wrote: Despite

[Finale] Finale 2014a and Lion (OS X 10.7.5)

2014-01-16 Thread Doug Walter
Despite the almost constant appearance of the dreaded Mac beach ball, my first project in Finale 2014 has been no day at the beach . . . The issue is extremely - agonizingly - unacceptably - sluggish behavior when doing ANYTHING. Changing tools, scrolling pages, anything. I'm on an 8-core 2.26

Re: [Finale] Chord notation question

2013-11-13 Thread Doug Walter
I seem to recall occasionally seeing that mean maj7, but I can't remember for sure. Might that make sense in context? Doug On Nov 13, 2013, at 8:09 PM, dershem ders...@cox.net wrote: I'm doing a chart, and the composer has some chords as C (7) but instead of parentheses, the 7 is in a

Re: [Finale] Triplet Entry

2013-03-29 Thread Doug Walter
This used to bug me till I discovered that hitting Option-1 brings up the dialog box where you can enter any values you want. The good news, though, is that it seems to default to 3 eighths in the space of 2, so all you have to do is hit Enter or OK and you're ready to go. Doug On Mar 29,

Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan chord suffix woes

2012-12-17 Thread Doug Walter
Hi Chuck and Mike, While this won't solve the underlying issue you're both talking about, I thought it would be worth mentioning another input method that can work in these situations that doesn't require using the mouse (which you may already know about). The drag is that is requires

Re: [Finale] 2nd Quarter 2012 results

2012-08-22 Thread Doug Walter
Hi Jef, I notice you're using iKey and I'm curious whether you've ever used QuicKeys. I used to use the latter and always found it a bit clunky, especially for more complicated tasks, so I left it alone for a few years and eventually came back to a newer version and had the same issues.

[Finale] Macro program recap (was 2nd Quarter 2012 results)

2012-08-22 Thread Doug Walter
Thanks to Jef, J.D. and Nigel for their most helpful responses to my question about using iKey with Finale. Jef is happy with iKey (although an earlier version, and now I do vaguely remember some discussion about later versions of it with some flavor of OS X possibly being a problem), and

Re: [Finale] Trouble with 2012b Mac installer?

2012-06-27 Thread Doug Walter
you know if Finale was running when you tried to update? Also, I would highly encourage you to contact our support team about this so we can learn a bit more. --- Justin Phillips Portfolio Manager-Notation Products MakeMusic, Inc. 763-772-3964 On Jun 26, 2012, at 11:49 PM, Doug

Re: [Finale] Trouble with 2012b Mac installer?

2012-06-27 Thread Doug Walter
P.S. Meant to give Curtis at Finale tech support credit for helping sort this out. Thanks! Doug On Jun 27, 2012, at 9:09 AM, Doug Walter wrote: Successful resolution: Just to warn anyone else who might be succumbing to old habits, I had done something that turns out to be unnecessary

Re: [Finale] Trouble with 2012b Mac installer?

2012-06-27 Thread Doug Walter
was running when you tried to update? Also, I would highly encourage you to contact our support team about this so we can learn a bit more. --- Justin Phillips Portfolio Manager-Notation Products MakeMusic, Inc. 763-772-3964 On Jun 26, 2012, at 11:49 PM, Doug Walter dew

[Finale] Trouble with 2012b Mac installer?

2012-06-26 Thread Doug Walter
Anybody else having any trouble updating FinMac 2012 to 2012b? I downloaded the updater and ran it , seemingly without problems, but instead of updating the Finale 2012.app, it created a separate Finale 2012.app in my Applications folder, but outside the Finale 2012 folder which

Re: [Finale] grab and drag hot key

2011-06-17 Thread Doug Walter
Sounds like a great idea. I've always wished there were an easy way to switch between tools (not that it's hard to click, of course, but a keyboard equivalent that wouldn't involve hassling with QuicKeys or reaching for the mouse). In lieu of a preassigned keystroke for each tool, this would at

Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan font questions

2010-11-03 Thread Doug Walter
Hi all, Just reporting on a successful outcome with my Chord Symbol font adventures. Chuck graciously sent me the FAN file for that font, and when I installed it the tie problem went away. Along with adjusting the down stems to be shorter, I now can use rhythmic notation with stems down and

Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan font questions

2010-11-02 Thread Doug Walter
Thanks, Eric - good to know. I didn't mean that the Font Annotation folder was empty; just that it was missing FAN files for the Duncan fonts. I'm looking forward to having the final piece of this little puzzle in place and kicking myself for not bringing this up much sooner. Doug On Nov 1,

Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan font questions

2010-11-01 Thread Doug Walter
Since this subject came up, it reminded me of a couple things I've been meaning to ask. One is regarding sharing documents that use the chord symbol font with others who don't own it, and the other has to do with stem direction in rhythmic notation. When I know a score I've created is going to

{Spam} Re: {Spam} Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan font questions

2010-11-01 Thread Doug Walter
more details about how you define rhythmic notation and where the trouble shows up, I will try to duplicate it and see what I can discover. Chuck On Nov 1, 2010, at 8:27 AM, Doug Walter wrote: Since this subject came up, it reminded me of a couple things I've been meaning to ask. One

Re: {Spam} Re: {Spam} Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan font questions

2010-11-01 Thread Doug Walter
to confront that task. If you provide more details about how you define rhythmic notation and where the trouble shows up, I will try to duplicate it and see what I can discover. Chuck On Nov 1, 2010, at 8:27 AM, Doug Walter wrote: Since this subject came up, it reminded me of a couple

{Spam} Re: [Finale] re: large format scanners

2010-10-24 Thread Doug Walter
This thread caught my interest as I've got a Sharp photocopier that is at the point where the technician is recommending that I consider replacing it as the next service will be extensive and expensive. It handles up to 11 x 17 paper, and I used to use it to print and photocopy scores as well

{Spam} Re: {Spam} Re: {Spam} Re: [Finale] re: large format scanners

2010-10-24 Thread Doug Walter
Thanks, David. Here's the link to the 2 Plustek tabloid scanners: http://www.plustek.com/product/series.asp?s_id=19 Doug On Oct 24, 2010, at 6:24 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 24 Oct 2010 at 17:15, Doug Walter wrote: I always assumed that large-format scanners would be prohibitively

Re: [Finale] Finale 2011 now available for pre-order

2010-05-25 Thread Doug Walter
Even though we saw it coming, it's still annoying . . . On May 25, 2010, at 8:11 AM, Phillips, Justin wrote: Hi all, FYI, we're now taking pre-orders for Finale 2011. Click the link below to check out some of the new features! http://finalemusic.com/Finale/New.aspx

Re: [Finale] RE: score turns white

2010-02-02 Thread Doug Walter
Super-annoying, indeed. I'm on a Mac Pro, 10.6, Finale 2010b. In my case, more often than not when in Speedy the bar I just left (no pun intended) is what turns white, or the notes in layer 1 in the bar I'm working in (see above) turn white while I'm in layer 2. This seems especially

Re: [Finale] 2K7 beaming issue

2009-12-09 Thread Doug Walter
There's also a Flat Beams check box as an option in the Staff Attributes dialog that can be toggled on or off for individual staves. I generally only use it for drum parts, but maybe that's what's happening here? Doug On Dec 9, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: Nope. Doesn't

Re: [Finale] Flipping tuplets and slurs in FinMac 2008

2008-04-21 Thread Doug Walter
Thanks for your detailed reply, Darcy. Sadly, I DID spend quite a bit of time with the manual when I started using 2k8, but obviously either not enough time or not recently enough for me to have remembered that particular point. I always find it tricky to strike a balance between a)