Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan chord suffix woes

2012-12-17 Thread Chuck Israels
I have a similar problem with sus4 suffixes. I assumed that it was because of the special keystrokes required to create the superscript text, key combinations I don't have reason to remember after having created the suffixes I need. I always have to enter those suffixes by going into dialog

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] Bill Duncan chord suffix woes

2012-12-17 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi Doug, I do remember I used to do it this way, but it stopped working when I forgot that I needed to include the colon. Thanks for the reminder. This can be quicker if you memorize the slots for complex suffixes, so I will find this useful for things like 7#5#9 too. Thanks again, Chuck

Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan chord suffix woes

2012-12-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Mike, Adding Unicode support to Finale 2012 has, uh, complicated the use of Bill Duncan's fonts, which have always been a bit buggy from a font-encoding perspective. First, quit Finale, then make sure all the Duncan fonts are listed in the MacSymbolFonts.txt document -- located at

Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan chord suffix woes

2012-12-17 Thread Mike Casteel
Thanks for the tip, Doug. I will definitely be using this until we (hopefully) find a solution. It makes no sense to me how creating it in the chord definition dialog box garners the desired results but in other places there seems to be this disconnect. Nick Carter even sent me an updated

Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan chord suffix woes

2012-12-17 Thread Mike Casteel
Thanks Darcy! You and Chuck were the ones I had hoped to hear from about this. Unfortunately, it looks like we're stuck. I had already taken all of the steps you mentioned below. I had just hoped that I had missed a step in the process. Bummer. Thanks again to Doug for refreshing my memory

Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan chord suffix woes

2012-12-17 Thread Girard Bowe
...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of |Chuck Israels |Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 3:06 PM |To: finale@shsu.edu |Subject: Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan chord suffix woes | |Hi Doug, | |I do remember I used to do it this way, but it stopped working when I forgot that I |needed to include the colon. Thanks