Re: [Finale] typing in music symbols

2013-04-08 Thread Williams, Jim
Hi, Linda. Using finale fonts in word documents may often be problematic due to issues of baselines and spacing. You'd be better served to download the Bach font, which contains myriad symbols and is specifically designed for use in word and similar programs. Of course, it comes with a

Re: [Finale] typing in music symbols

2013-04-08 Thread Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre
http://www.finalemusic.com/UserManuals/Finale2011Mac/Content/Finale/Maestro_Font.htm Klaus Sendt fra min iPad Den 08/04/2013 kl. 18.47 skrev Linda Worsley li...@ganymuse.com: I occasionallyh need to type music symbols (ff, quarter note, fermata, etc.) into a Word file. Is there a chart

Re: [Finale] typing in music symbols

2013-04-08 Thread Michael Mathew
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Re: [Finale] typing in music symbols

2013-04-08 Thread Don Hart
mmathew_musicp...@yahoo.com http://www.musicengravers.com/cgi-bin/engravers.pl http://oregonmts.com/mathew/ From: Linda Worsley li...@ganymuse.com To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 9:47 AM Subject: [Finale] typing in music symbols I occasionallyh need

Re: [Finale] typing in music symbols

2013-04-08 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
: Monday, April 8, 2013 9:47 AM Subject: [Finale] typing in music symbols I occasionally need to type music symbols (ff, quarter note, fermata, etc.) into a Word file. Is there a chart somewhere that contains all the keystrokes for the various symbpols

Re: [Finale] typing in music symbols

2013-04-08 Thread Don Hart
To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 9:47 AM Subject: [Finale] typing in music symbols I occasionally need to type music symbols (ff, quarter note, fermata, etc.) into a Word file. Is there a chart somewhere that contains all the keystrokes for the various symbpols

Re: [Finale] typing in music symbols

2013-04-08 Thread David H. Bailey
On 4/8/2013 12:47 PM, Linda Worsley wrote: I occasionallyh need to type music symbols (ff, quarter note, fermata, etc.) into a Word file. Is there a chart somewhere that contains all the keystrokes for the various symbpols? Linda, You've gotten some great replies already -- I can't remember

Re: [Finale] typing in music symbols

2013-04-08 Thread Linda Worsley
Thanks to all for pointing me at some sources. I'm aware of the baseline problems and just deal with them as they come up, by a variety of editing tricks. But I'm having trouble finding a keystroke for fortissimo (ff). If I use the one in the chart I get fff so I don't quite know what to do

Re: [Finale] typing in music symbols

2013-04-08 Thread John Blane
Type f twice On Apr 8, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Linda Worsley wrote: Thanks to all for pointing me at some sources. I'm aware of the baseline problems and just deal with them as they come up, by a variety of editing tricks. But I'm having trouble finding a keystroke for fortissimo (ff). If I use

Re: [Finale] typing in music symbols

2013-04-08 Thread J D Thomas
Linda, One app I use that's very handy for finding and inserting various characters system-wide is PopChar. It does cost $ but I find it indispensable. It lives in the menubar to the left of the Apple menu when installed. And, according to PopChar, ff fortissimo is opt-f and fff is

Re: [Finale] typing in music symbols

2013-04-08 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Linda: The real timesaver for you in this situation is one of the fonts that Dennis mentioned in his post in this thread, the Bach Musicological Font; It is available as a free download, http://www.mu.qub.ac.uk/tomita/bachfont/. This is a font that is designed to do exactly what you want. You

Re: [Finale] typing in music symbols

2013-04-08 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Linda: The real timesaver for you in this situation is one of the fonts that Dennis mentioned in his post in this thread, the Bach Musicological Font; It is available as a free download, http://www.mu.qub.ac.uk/tomita/bachfont/. This is a font that is designed to do exactly what you want. You

Re: [Finale] typing in music symbols

2013-04-08 Thread John Roberts
I've used Steve Powell's Metronome fonts for years (from DVM Publications), including MetTimes and MetHelvetica, which mix music characters with those text fonts. JR On 4/8/13 6:26 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Linda: The real timesaver for you in this situation is one of the fonts that