Re: [Finale] FINALE 25 Surface Pro 4 losing authorization

2016-11-27 Thread kaub001
I get this too. I submitted a support request and am waiting. I have a Dell, though, not a surface pro. I do have win10. I ran my as administrator. still get the problem. Justin Phillips wrote: > Have you ran Finale as an administrator (right-click the app icon and select > "Run as Admi

[Finale] Dale Noble

2014-03-25 Thread kaub001
If someone could crosspost this to the choral list, I would appreciate it. Dale Noble was a choir director locally. He is known outside of Hawaii as Weston Noble's brother, but he was deeply respected here in his own right. He was greatly influential in the course of music in Hawaii. Many local

Re: [Finale] repeats and endings

2010-03-23 Thread kaub001
I do see the notation (1,3) in choral music. Not often, and maybe it's dependent on the publishing house. While it's reasonably clear, for the environment of a church choir setting, where sight-reading can unfortunately become the norm, I find this confusing. I once had to read through an arran

Re: [Finale] WinFin2010 questions about capo chords

2010-02-28 Thread kaub001
Regarding the G chord capoing to a "Gb" chord: I did a strange thing, and it seemed to work. The actual chord in the piece is Gm; I opened the chord def dialog, then typed in the cap at 1 fret as usual, then I changed the chord name at the top from Gm to F##m and it seemed to work! Even more int

[Finale] WinFin2010 questions about capo chords

2010-02-28 Thread kaub001
I am attempting to make a sheet with both capo and non-capo chords. I have set up a standard staff for notes and lyrics. This staff has the non-transposed, non-capo chords. I have a second staff in which I hide everything except the chords, and I copied the chords only from the first staff to th

Re: [Finale] Who used phonetic words?

2010-02-24 Thread kaub001
"It's not funny if you have to explain it", but Fred Waring also invented the blender. I guess I was too obtuse. John Howell wrote: > At 6:04 AM -0500 2/23/10, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > >On Tue, February 23, 2010 12:01 am, kaub...@hawaii.rr.com wrote: > >> Was that so they would blend

Re: [Finale] Who used phonetic words?

2010-02-22 Thread kaub001
Was that so they would blend? Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > On Mon, February 22, 2010 9:21 am, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > > I think it was Fred Waring. > > That's it! Thank you! Mr. Tone Syllables... just couldn't find it via Google, > and it was driving me crazy. All I could think was Dale

Re: [Finale] removing unwanted changes

2010-02-21 Thread kaub001
Something that sometimes works for me: 1. Select the offending measures. 2. Apply "time signature spacing". 3. Respace the measures. Apparently, at least in older versions of Finale, "time signature spacing" was the equivalent of "no spacing applied". Haven't had to do this for a while, so I do

[Finale] suggestions for amateur composer

2010-02-21 Thread kaub001
I am an amateur choral composer, mostly writing pieces for our local congregation and choir, and some have been very well received. I am quite satisfied to remain just a local composer, but I have received several requests to publish a recent choral work of mine. A local choir director friend of

Re: [Finale] OT: Dies Irae

2009-10-26 Thread kaub001
I believe I also heard a Dies Irae in "The Lord of the Rings" (Howard Shore). Darcy James Argue wrote: > Bob, you omitted what is perhaps the most culturally significant use > of "Dies Irae" in living memory: > > > A version of "Dies Irae" was used in WWE/WWF's WrestleMania XIV > > dur

Re: [Finale] PDF output questions (Windows)

2009-07-05 Thread kaub001
I use Ghostscript to create PDFs, but I install it with the installer at the PDFForge.org website. See http://www.pdfforge.org and click on the PDF Creator link on the left toolbar. I haven't had any problems with embedded fonts. Hope this helps. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > Hi all, >

Re: [Finale] Fermatas in 2010

2009-06-14 Thread kaub001
Shows up in choral music a lot. Not rare in my work. "David W. Fenton" wrote: > On 14 Jun 2009 at 23:55, Barbara Touburg wrote: > > > David W. Fenton wrote: > > > > > > I've always wondered why the default fermata articulation has > > > over/under definitions. I've never seen a score tha

[Finale] TAN: Weird scores

2009-04-18 Thread kaub001
For your viewing pleasure or displeasure. I think some of these have been pointed out on the list before. http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/02/we-dare-you-to-play-these-scores.html http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/03/strangest-music-scores-part-2.html ___

Re: [Finale] Transitioning...

2009-03-08 Thread kaub001
Allen, Let me add my congratulations and hope that things work out terrifically for you. As far as dropping my computer, I usually save my wife the trouble and I drop it myself. :-) Allen Fisher wrote: > Thanks to all well-wishers in my new endeavor. I appreciate the > sentiment, an

Re: [Finale] Importing from Word to Finale

2009-03-08 Thread kaub001
FWIW, on WinXP I use PDF Tools (freeware, http://www.sheelapps.com/) and PDF Creator (open source, http://www.pdfforge.org/). PDF Creator actually uses Ghostscript to do the conversion, but sets up the driver to do this, all in a very easy to install setup program. Allen Fisher wrote: >

Re: [Finale] Finaletips site?

2009-03-06 Thread kaub001
Has anyone thought of setting up a Finale Wiki? dc wrote: > Johannes Gebauer écrit: > >Ah, but I cannot open it. Has it moved? I have www.finaletips.nu on file. > > http://home.swipnet.se/~w-52653/Finale/ > Last updated: > Aug 17, 2004 > > Dennis > > > > __

Re: [Finale] International Phonetic Alphabet

2009-01-08 Thread kaub001
David, Not sure if you're on Mac or PC, but I think the issue is the same. Because a non-unicode font is limited to 255 characters (actually less, for various reasons), unicode fonts need to "map" the glyphs to different positions in the font. Unicode has a much larger range (65535, I think) so

RE: [Finale] International Phonetic Alphabet

2009-01-07 Thread kaub001
*sigh* unicode - wouldn't that be loverly? and yes, I already submitted my request to MakeMusic quite some time ago. Richard Yates wrote: > Look here: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/fonts.htm > > > >Finale doesn't support Unicode. You need an old-fashioned > >non-Unicode IPA f

Re: [Finale] the musicians had higher IQ scores than the non-musicians

2008-10-05 Thread kaub001
>From what I could tell from what I've read about this: (1) The sample size was not terribly large (20 in the non-musician group, 20 in the musician group). Understandable, as they have to pay their subjects, but still makes it only a preliminary type of study. (2) It was a correlation study, no

Re: [Finale] SHSU has power

2008-09-14 Thread kaub001
Good. Hope everything is OK with you, and with SHSU. "Howey wrote: > Friends, > > While the city of Huntsville may not see any power for quite a while, the > university is fine. > > The list goes on;-) > > Henry Howey > Professor of Music > Sam Houston State University > Box 2208 >

Re: [Finale] O.T. Wikipages or Database

2008-08-20 Thread kaub001
Setting up a Wiki is pretty simple. I thought it was going to be hard, but it wasn't too bad. But then, I am a computer programmer (although not a web design type person). Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL) is built around a wiki - it uses the same wiki as Wikipedia. The Wikipedia folks make th

Re: [Finale] TAN: Need specialty noteheads (winfin2k9)

2008-08-07 Thread kaub001
Bob, Thanks! That's the one. Never bought anything in Pounds, yet. I have purchased items in Euros. I'll look into the second link, too. This is great. Bob Morabito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is this the link? > > http://www.kewego.com/video/iLyROoaftIwr.html > > If so--I think this is

[Finale] TAN: Need specialty noteheads (winfin2k9)

2008-08-06 Thread kaub001
To the creative and collective wisdom of the list: I am putting together a piece that will need specialty noteheads for vocalists. They will be creating "effects" (a la the honda commercial, but not anywhere near as sophisticated or complex). Mostly, I want to notate that certain words be inhal

Re: [Finale] Some comments re Fin09

2008-08-03 Thread kaub001
I am a programmer, too, and for about as long. I have encountered situations similar to what you've described below. There may be issues with having large staff lists (performance, field count bit size, whatever), but I can't see the reason for 4, as opposed to say, 8 or 16. I am not in their sh

Re: [Finale] Some comments re Fin09

2008-08-03 Thread kaub001
Seems to me that if they wanted to put in limitations for some publishing house, it would not be unreasonable to put in a "policies" configuration where you can select, say, the WB or B&H guidelines and styles so the various houses get what they want. For the rest of us peons who have different

Re: [Finale] Finale 2009 questions/issues

2008-08-03 Thread kaub001
FWIW, I have once encountered a need to go above 4 layers. I don't remember the context. I eventually worked around it, but everytime I subsequently wanted to make changes to this, it was a pain. I never thought much about it, as it was quite rare for me, but it always struck me as odd. IIRC, I

Re: [Finale] Some comments re Fin09

2008-08-01 Thread kaub001
David, Spot on. This would preserve "backward compatibility" and meet the objection of it being too wild for the publishers. FWIW, I do not write for a publisher. I write for a private group of people. I haven't taken a survey, but I would venture a guess that many others do not either. I rea

RE: [Finale] Resize tool for systems inoperative in 2009?

2008-07-28 Thread kaub001
It might be cool if the cursor in the Percent (and Page Layout) tools changed to show what would happen if you clicked ... "Fisher wrote: > Click in between staves. > > Allen > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Smith > [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Finale] I'm back!

2008-04-28 Thread kaub001
So good to have you back. You were much missed! Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is to let everybody know I'm back on the list. I had a > hearttransplant on 11/14/07, and recovery has been long and > difficult. > > Kallisti Music Press reopened for business a fe

Re: [Finale] word extensions over double bar bug

2007-10-18 Thread kaub001
Hmmm. It's the default action for a word extension (assuming you are using "automatic" word extensions [I hesitate to call them "smart"]) for double bars. However, double click on the measure with the Measure Tool selected. There should be a checkbox that's labeled something like "Break smart word

Re: [Finale] OT urgent pdf problems

2007-07-03 Thread kaub001
Windows or mac? - Original Message - From: Barbara Touburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2007 8:28 am Subject: Re: [Finale] OT urgent pdf problems To: finale@shsu.edu > So I tried to print the piece to my ordinary printer. Guess what? > Same > problem. It seems to be Finale

Re: [Finale] The state of the art: a report from the trenches

2004-12-20 Thread kaub001
Absolutely agree. I think hymnbook style is appropriate for (mostly) homophonic music. But I see music where the Sops and Altos have quite different rhythms and lines, (sometimes even with a lot of the Sops crossing below the Altos), and it's notated in one staff. It's hard to sightread, and tak

Re: [Finale] The state of the art: a report from the trenches

2004-12-20 Thread kaub001
I would have to agree with John that list is very educational, and has forced me to pay more attention to a lot of details that I normally would have overlooked. Although I do not use Finale for external publishing work, I find that taking the time to make the score look good and be easy to sigh

Re: [Finale] Fear OT

2004-11-24 Thread kaub001
Dean, How far is the lamp from your monitor? One possibility for the quiver is that the lamp's transformer (if it uses one) could be producing a large electric field which would affect your screen. I've noticed a similar situation where someone placed his computer on the opposite side of the wa

Re: [Finale] Choral work setup

2004-06-30 Thread kaub001
I would agree with Andrew. However, if it is at all practical, I would consider making a separate engraving for the choristers, with the oboe/cello shown only as possible cue entries on the piano part (or a separate line). Of course, this also depends on how critical the oboe and cello are to th

Re: [Finale] Basic guide to vocal scores?

2004-06-21 Thread kaub001
some quick and dirty answers ... (I'm really supposed to be at work here) (1) Old convention is that beaming followed the melismas. That is, each syllable got one beam group, and so, for example, each note would normally get a single note with a flag. Modern convention is to beam the same way as

Re: [Finale] OT: Even Randy Stokes has viruses - not

2004-05-21 Thread kaub001
The fact that the "from" on the email says "Randy Stokes" does not mean it came from Randy Stokes. More than likely, especially in the case of viruses/worms, the sending program is "spoofing" the from-address with one of the other addresses in the infected machines mailbox. Most likely you and