Does anyone know how to reprogram a keyboard shortcut for changing
between scroll and page view in iKey? Since there are two menu items for
this I don't know how to do it.
Johannes
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The best way to do this would be to program the keystroke
command-option-` rather than a menu command.
steve
On Feb 25, 2005, at 3:07 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Does anyone know how to reprogram a keyboard shortcut for changing
between scroll and page view in iKey? Since there are two menu
There is two problems with this: Firstly, it is too slow (due to the
reported keyboard commands delay) and secondly, this keystroke doesn't
work on a German keyboard when in the text tool (while in page view), as
it is the same as for one of the justification commands. This problem is
limited
From: Johannes Gebauer
There is no reason why I would want my title text blocks appear in
the expression list, it would only convolut it more.
how about a set in-line (they appear in the Text List but are
unassignable) default bookmarks which can be added to or modified by
user? the defaults
From: David W. Fenton
What I *would* support is if the text expression dialog's text box
at the top were instead replaced with the standard Finale text
editor. Then you could put anything in the text expression that you
could put into the text editor, and the user interface would be
exactly
From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Multi-line expressions are a problem to create (unless that's been
changed past 2K3).
possible since 2004.
There's no easy way to make any given object a stretchiness or smartness.
proper typographical control - kerning - would allow for
stretchiness, but not in any
From: Noel Stoutenburg
A running header, or a dedication in a text block have nothing to do
with the way the music sounds, and I would submit that the line, is
_not_ at all interchangeable with Allegro ma non troppo.
dedications could be entered in a new file info entry box.
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shirling
From: Johannes Gebauer
It still escapes me why this kind of thing cannot live happily in
two different tools.
Before the expression tool was improved I could see that there was
some overlap between measure text blocks and measure text
expressions, however, all these problems are now indeed
From: David W. Fenton
...each different kind has different properties that have different
effects on the music. Text blocks have a whole set of properties
that are page-based (and have no effect on performance), while text
expressions are measure- or note-attached.
text blocks are page- or
kurt, johannes (and others),
From: Kurt Gnos
I would NOT mingle the two tools since they have an entirely other
functionality. However, I'd like some of the things you mention, but
in the Text Tool where I might use them.
actually they don't, both tools at present control different
instances of
At 10:48 AM 2/25/05 -0500, shirling neueweise wrote:
From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 11:58 AM 2/24/05 +0100, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
It still escapes me why this kind of thing cannot live happily in two
different tools.
jef suggested two.
?
one.
Sorry. Meant two in one. That closer? :)
D
I think you are counting fly legs now. Tell me, what is it you are
missing in a measure attached context, which cannot be done in the
expression tool?
(I can actually think of one situation, but that, on the other hand, is
so special it is much better done in the text tool.)
Johannes
shirling
Fine by me for the expression tool, but I still don't want my text
blocks in there.
Johannes
shirling neueweise wrote:
From: Johannes Gebauer
There is no reason why I would want my title text blocks appear in the
expression list, it would only convolut it more.
how about a set in-line (they
It's not that I want to have the last word, but I use the two tools for
entirely different things. When you say alignment of two expressions
assigned with different tools is a problem, I simply don't get why you
have to use two tools in the first place. If it is an expression, why do
you not
On Feb 25, 2005, at 10:47 AM, shirling neueweise wrote:
kurt, johannes (and others),
From: Kurt Gnos
I would NOT mingle the two tools since they have an entirely other
functionality. However, I'd like some of the things you mention, but
in the Text Tool where I might use them.
actually they
On Feb 25, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
There is two problems with this: Firstly, it is too slow (due to the
reported keyboard commands delay)
Are you using vers. 1 or 2 of iKey?
and secondly, this keystroke doesn't work on a German keyboard when in
the text tool (while in page
Hello!
The Finale Productivity Tips site got some major additions today.
* I've put 19 brand new interviews on the site, with people in various
ways connected with Finale (developers at MakeMusic, engravers,
copyists, plug-in developers, publishers, composers, etc). I can almost
guarantee that
I wrote:
The Finale Productivity Tips site got some major additions today.
[snip]
The URL is:
http://www.finaletips.nu/
Best regards,
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On 25 Feb 2005 at 10:48, shirling neueweise wrote:
the similarities in functioning are far greater than the differences,
I disagree with this. The fact that both use blocks of texts is a
trivial similarity. Everything *else* about the two is completely
different, and *should* remain
On 25 Feb 2005 at 10:49, shirling neueweise wrote:
From: David W. Fenton
...each different kind has different properties that have different
effects on the music. Text blocks have a whole set of properties that
are page-based (and have no effect on performance), while text
expressions are
Here is a test to see how up-to-date your browser is.
Go to http://maps.google.com and browse a few maps.
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FYI, Jari,
I'm reading the interviews page in Safari, and the sidebar is slightly
too tall for the window, so that the bottom half of Tyler Turner is
not visible. Vertical scrolling scrolls the main window only, so I
can't get at the bottom of the sidebar.
At normal size it looks funny but
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:12:19 -0800, Mark D Lew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FYI, Jari,
I'm reading the interviews page in Safari, and the sidebar is slightly
too tall for the window, so that the bottom half of Tyler Turner is
not visible. Vertical scrolling scrolls the main window only, so I
On Feb 25, 2005, at 12:40 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Given the new capabilities of text expressions (multi-line, control
of automatic placement), why would any one use a measure-attached
text block, rather than a measure-attached expression?
Justification. Can't do it in the new text expressions.
From: Johannes Gebauer
When you say alignment of two expressions assigned with different
tools is a problem, I simply don't get why you have to use two
tools in the first place. If it is an expression, why do you not use
the expression tool?
currently because i can't full-justify multi-line
From: David W. Fenton
So, the ideal world for me would be to have the all text blocks
dialog added, which would allow selection of multiple text blocks
and the application of properties to the selected group, but then to
leave the text expression dialog as it is, with the exception of:
such
Jari,
These additions to the tips site are great! Now, how am I going to
get any work done? ;-)
Hal
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for the problem of management of a large number of Texts (page
blocks, expressions, dynamics etc.), the bookmarks i mentioned could
be helpful (click on dynamics and you are taken immediately to the
marker dynamics in the list - key commands could be implemented),
but perhaps something more
Mark D Lew wrote:
I'm reading the interviews page in Safari, and the sidebar is slightly
too tall for the window, so that the bottom half of Tyler Turner is
not visible. Vertical scrolling scrolls the main window only, so I
can't get at the bottom of the sidebar.
At normal size it looks funny
Jari Williamsson wrote:
I wrote:
The Finale Productivity Tips site got some major additions today.
[snip]
The URL is:
http://www.finaletips.nu/
Terrific addition! Thanks!
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On 25 Feb 2005 at 14:08, shirling neueweise wrote:
From: David W. Fenton
So, the ideal world for me would be to have the all text blocks
dialog added, which would allow selection of multiple text blocks and
the application of properties to the selected group, but then to
leave the text
On 25 Feb 2005 at 14:18, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Feb 25, 2005, at 12:40 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Given the new capabilities of text expressions (multi-line, control
of automatic placement), why would any one use a measure-attached
text block, rather than a measure-attached
On 25 Feb 2005 at 14:22, shirling neueweise wrote:
taking the above comments into consideration, can anyone give me an
example of how their work would be _hindered_ or otherwise adversely
affected if the (current) text tool and expression tool were combined
into one tool (with an efficient
On Feb 25, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote:
First, you can *always* access all the different interviews by
clicking on the main Interviews link.
Right. I had no problem with access. I just thought the sidebar
looked funny, so I was passing that on in case you hadn't seen it.
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
I can't help you with the first, but to select and move more than one
text block at a time, shift-click their handles, or drag around the
handles to select several at once. You can then drag or nudge them at
will, and restore default positioning by
Revelation!
I often need to clear a staff style for a measure or two, and have done
it for a number of years now by selecting Clear Staff Styles from the
Staff menu. I just now discovered that I can do the same thing with one
key, Clear on the Mac (I imagine it's the backspace above Enter for
Listers, I know that there are many tekkie geniuses on this list and
maybe one of you with knowledge of the various generations of CD
players can answer this one:
I'm preparing a set of CDs for an educational project (always a
mind-blower, in terms of what people ask for). It's a listening
shirling neueweise wrote:
From: Johannes Gebauer
When you say alignment of two expressions assigned with different
tools is a problem, I simply don't get why you have to use two tools
in the first place. If it is an expression, why do you not use the
expression tool?
currently because i can't
Linda Worsley wrote:
(Never mind that if music teachers have to punch the advance button
ninety or so times, to access the final elements, they will go on
disability for repetitive stress syndrome.) Ah... music educators... ya
gotta love 'em.
I'm no techie guru, but I can tell you that
Linda,
I have a CD (it's the example set of CD's from Samuel Adler's book The
Study of Orchestration that has index numbers in addition to track
numbers. This means that Track 1 has five or so examples, each with
their own index number, so Track 1.1, 1.2, etc. He manages to squeeze
many
On 25 Feb 2005 at 18:26, Linda Worsley wrote:
What I want to know is: Does anyone have a good approximate cutoff
year for players that are pretty much able to do what we need?
I just realized the other night that I'm using a 20-year-old CD
player as my primary CD player in my stereo system.
Christopher Smith wrote:
Linda,
I have a CD (it's the example set of CD's from Samuel Adler's book The
Study of Orchestration that has index numbers in addition to track
numbers. This means that Track 1 has five or so examples, each with
their own index number, so Track 1.1, 1.2, etc. He
On 25 Feb 2005 at 18:47, Christopher Smith wrote:
I'm not sure how to do this, as I have never used this feature of the
spec myself, but this info might get you on the right track.
It's a matter of setting up your cue sheet when recording to the CD.
Here's a sample from a recent cue sheet
At 06:26 PM 2/25/05 -0500, Linda Worsley wrote:
What I want to know is: Does anyone have a good approximate cutoff
year for players that are pretty much able to do what we need?
Okay, you had me curious. So I just burned a 79:58 CDR with the final track
only 60 seconds long (so it would have to
At 6:54 PM -0500 2/25/05, David W. Fenton wrote:
Wouldn't this be better done with index numbers within the tracks?
I considered that option, but at McGraw-Hill, when I was producing
their recordings (not that long ago) we found that MANY teachers did
not want index points, because they could
Go to http://maps.google.com and browse a few maps.
No support for Safari. They need to do more homework.
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On 26 Feb 2005 at 0:22, Simon Troup wrote:
Go to http://maps.google.com and browse a few maps.
No support for Safari. They need to do more homework.
It uses a non-standard technique, the name of which I forget, that
was created by Microsoft and implemented in Internet Explorer, and
that
Thank you very much for the time taken to feed me with such valuable
information, you can be shure
I will make the best use of it.
Godofredo
PS: Dont leave town because if I get stuck in the middle of the road
to get to where I intend to I'll
knock on your door one more once asking for help.
Simon Troup wrote:
Go to http://maps.google.com and browse a few maps.
No support for Safari. They need to do more homework.
No support for Europe. They really need to do some work. I feel like
the anti-Columbus, scrolling off into the unknown
So, it's really only luck that it's supported in anything other than
IE, as it's depending on functionality that's not a W3C standard.
I looked at it in FireFox and it looked quite effective. I'm not overly
enthusiastic about MS going off and developing their own standards and
innovations
From: shirling neueweise
dedications could be entered in a new file info entry box.
by the way, any other suggestions for new file info fields?
- dedication
- composition date (often different from year of copyright assignment
in published scores)
- instrumentation
and text inserts?
- total
On Feb 25, 2005, at 7:08 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Christopher's suggestion of index numbers probably won't work. We have
players capable of that at the radio station, but nobody's ever
actually
tried to use that feature!
When you say won't work, do you mean that not all the cues will be
At 08:22 PM 2/25/05 -0500, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Feb 25, 2005, at 7:08 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Christopher's suggestion of index numbers probably won't work. We have
players capable of that at the radio station, but nobody's ever
actually
tried to use that feature!
When you
On 25 Feb 2005 at 20:22, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Feb 25, 2005, at 7:08 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
Christopher's suggestion of index numbers probably won't work. We
have players capable of that at the radio station, but nobody's ever
actually tried to use that feature!
When
At 05:04 PM 2/25/05 +0100, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
I actually want the functionality of measure text blocks improved, since
at the moment there is only very limited use for them. I want to be able
to assign a _measure_ attached text block to a position on the _page_.
I know you pretty much
I think I understand.
You want to program a shortcut to toggle page view/scroll view.
There are two menu items, presumably you would like to have only one
keyboard shortcut that would work for both, as it would in Finale
natively, but you can't, since iKey can't have two shortcuts with the
same
On 2/25/05 7:22 PM, Simon Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No support for Safari. They need to do more homework.
Actually, it worked fine for me in Safari. I wonder what the difference was
...?
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On Feb 25, 2005, at 8:43 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 05:04 PM 2/25/05 +0100, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
I actually want the functionality of measure text blocks improved,
since
at the moment there is only very limited use for them. I want to be
able
to assign a _measure_ attached text block
On Feb 25, 2005, at 5:08 PM, shirling neueweise wrote:
by the way, any other suggestions for new file info fields?
- dedication
- composition date (often different from year of copyright assignment
in published scores)
- instrumentation
I'm still on 2k2, so I don't know if they've added any
Jari Williamsson / 05.2.25 / 02:29 PM wrote:
Comments?
Your width is dynamic. If you give the page size static, the page scroll
bar, instead of layer one, will be always there, no?
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Jari,
Thanks for keeping up this website and for adding helpful things like the
new interviews.
I read through most of Tyler Turner's interview (I didn't realize the escape
key did that!) and I thought I'd put out a general question about Simple
Entry to the list:
How many reading this have
So, it's not possible to do this with MP3 with XML interface?
Most schools have computers these days, no?
:-)
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Godofredo Romero / 05.2.25 / 07:34 PM wrote:
PS: Dont leave town because if I get stuck in the middle of the road to
get to where I intend to I'll
knock on your door one more once asking for help.
I will be here :-)
By the way, I just received March issue of Electric Musicians (not my
David W. Fenton wrote:
Actually, even with the players that don't have index forward/back
buttons, if you turn on track display, it should display the index
numbers.
Huh? The cheap players I've mentioned earlier certainly dno't have that
option.
(And whoever suggested doing the whole thing
Don Hart wrote:
And is Simple really faster at editing than Speedy's
enter key for pitches, or number keypad for rhythms?
For MIDI entry it's roughly the same, without MIDI it's absolutely faster.
Since you're typically set the rhythms before the pitch in Simple,
there's no need for the Enter key
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