Re: [Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-31 Thread Jonathan Smith
Hold down Alt-Ctrl and click on an expression, it shows the note it's attached to. How cool is that? Not very cool. I almost never use it. I want to see what's hooked to what, not go clicking everywhere and guessing. When I move a note with special tools, I want to see what's attached

Re: [Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-30 Thread John Howell
At 8:57 PM -0400 7/29/07, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 05:25 PM 7/29/2007 -0700, Dick Hauser wrote: On Jul 28, 2007, at 11:43 PM, Jonathan Smith wrote: Hold down Alt-Ctrl and click on an expression, it shows the note it's attached to. How cool is that? Not very cool. I almost never

Re: [Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-29 Thread Jonathan Smith
They should be able to be attached to anything (and should -- repeating this for the umpteenth time) *show* the ownership through some sort of rubber-band indicator. Hold down Alt-Ctrl and click on an expression, it shows the note it's attached to. Jonathan

Re: [Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-29 Thread Dick Hauser
On Jul 28, 2007, at 11:43 PM, Jonathan Smith wrote: Hold down Alt-Ctrl and click on an expression, it shows the note it's attached to. How cool is that? Thanks, Jonathan! Dick H ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-29 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 05:25 PM 7/29/2007 -0700, Dick Hauser wrote: On Jul 28, 2007, at 11:43 PM, Jonathan Smith wrote: Hold down Alt-Ctrl and click on an expression, it shows the note it's attached to. How cool is that? Not very cool. I almost never use it. I want to see what's hooked to what, not go

[Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-27 Thread Patrick Sheehan
I'm working with an organ score that needs to have many text boxes for instructions, etc. When I print out the score (no part extraction needed), I want the boxes to be exactly where they are in the score layout, not offset somewhere else; this has happened when I've used Text Blocks in the

Re: [Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-27 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 27, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Patrick Sheehan wrote: I'm working with an organ score that needs to have many text boxes for instructions, etc. When I print out the score (no part extraction needed), I want the boxes to be exactly where they are in the score layout, not offset somewhere

Re: [Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-27 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 12:41 PM 7/27/2007 -0500, Patrick Sheehan wrote: I want the boxes to be exactly where they are in the score layout, not offset somewhere else; this has happened when I've used Text Blocks in the past. Is there a way to make this setting? Are you entering them in page view? If so, they

Re: [Finale] Text Blocks in the Right Place

2007-07-27 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 02:24 PM 7/27/2007 -0400, Christopher Smith wrote: Text boxes made with the Text Tool (looks like an A) will attach to measures in scroll view, and to the PAGE if you enter them in page view. In my opinion, there is no good reason to use the Text Tool for instructions, with one exception.