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by Simon_Furey
Thu Dec 14, 2023 8:17 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: PDFs in 27.4
Replies: 51
Views: 78260

Re: PDFs in 27.4

Yup. In 27.4.1 CutePDF works again, though I have to say that I have been pleased in the interim that the export-to-PDF in Finale seems also to work (at last!). Hats off the MM for the fast fix. That is a nice change. And I really appreciate the lyric slur improvement that came with 27.4. More of th...
by Simon_Furey
Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:44 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale 27.4 is here
Replies: 27
Views: 10244

Re: Finale 27.4 is here

As Motet notes, CutePDF no longer works with 27.4, which is a bummer. :(
Fortunately, MM seem to have got their own export-to-pdf facility working at last, at least for my relatively straightforward scores, so I have a work-around.
by Simon_Furey
Thu Nov 30, 2023 5:02 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale 27.4 is here
Replies: 27
Views: 10244

Re: Finale 27.4 is here

Hurray! AT LAST!! You can insert elisions into lyrics without faffing about. MM have implemented exactly what I suggested more years ago than I can remember.
by Simon_Furey
Sun Jun 20, 2021 8:53 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: 27 DEMO wrecks Existing F26
Replies: 7
Views: 2156

Re: 27 DEMO wrecks Existing F26

I just tried this out on F26 and it still works perfectly on my PC (Windows 10). I have the full (not demo) F27 installed, and luckily I made sure (yay!) to select the installation option to retain F26 and not replace it. The only snag I have found so far is that all of the links to F26 disappeared,...
by Simon_Furey
Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:16 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: F27 and repeats
Replies: 1
Views: 820

F27 and repeats

I just downloaded F27 today and I noticed that repeat counting has changed. Actually, it hasn't just changed, it's corrected a bug that's been there since Finale 1995 (!). This is particularly noticeable if you combine a repeated section with first and second endings and a DCAF at the end of the pie...
by Simon_Furey
Tue Jan 15, 2019 11:44 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Underscores in lyrics?
Replies: 30
Views: 13166

Re: Underscores in lyrics?

Thanks, Peter. Sadly the PC version of the package does not include that font. However, I have now managed to acquire a copy.
Cheers
Simon
by Simon_Furey
Tue Jan 15, 2019 11:02 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Underscores in lyrics?
Replies: 30
Views: 13166

Re: Underscores in lyrics?

David, Sorry, you are quite right. The underscore character (not to be confused with the underline attribute) does indeed work as you say. I was testing with an underlined hard space, which loses the underline attribute on output to XML. The downside, of course, is that you lose all the automatic sm...
by Simon_Furey
Mon Jan 14, 2019 9:58 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Underscores in lyrics?
Replies: 30
Views: 13166

Re: Underscores in lyrics?

David, nice try but it seems that FInale's XML export process strips out the underline, which is the point I think that Motet was making. Try exporting a test music file as MusicXML and re-importing it to Finale and you'll see what I mean. Hence my font work.
Simon
by Simon_Furey
Mon Jan 14, 2019 9:36 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Underscores in lyrics?
Replies: 30
Views: 13166

Re: Underscores in lyrics?

Vaughan, the Finale Lyrics font is more compressed than Times/Times New Roman, and may be sufficient for your needs. Have you tried it? I don't have the Minion font and don't want to pay Adobe's prices. I am sending Mike my fonts so we should soon find out if they are Mac compatible. The last Mac I ...
by Simon_Furey
Mon Jan 14, 2019 5:10 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Underscores in lyrics?
Replies: 30
Views: 13166

Re: Underscores in lyrics?

Folks may be interested to know that I have now produced a variant of the Finale Lyrics font (PC TrueType) which works perfectly. It's called FinaleLyricsES and it sits comfortably alongside any other fonts you may have, including the original MM Finale Lyrics. All you have to do to get an elision s...
by Simon_Furey
Sun Jan 13, 2019 7:34 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Underscores in lyrics?
Replies: 30
Views: 13166

Re: Underscores in lyrics?

Ah.... belay that last offer, Vaughan. I just noticed the small snag that you have a Mac, whereas I am using a PC. Sorry about that.
Cheers
Simon
by Simon_Furey
Sun Jan 13, 2019 7:28 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Underscores in lyrics?
Replies: 30
Views: 13166

Re: Underscores in lyrics?

Yes, Motet, I was talking about entering elision slurs in general in Finale, but I take your point. However, if - as I do - you use a font with an elision slur in it, then it passes transparently through the XML export process without a problem. I have used this very successfully to transfer (for ex...
by Simon_Furey
Sun Jan 13, 2019 4:39 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Underscores in lyrics?
Replies: 30
Views: 13166

Re: Underscores in lyrics?

Exactly, Harpsi. I got the same results and that's why I chose % as the character to substitute in my font, and why I don't understand why MM don't do the same thing in the Finale Lyrics font. It's so much more convenient just to type in the elision slur directly when you need it. I can't think of a...
by Simon_Furey
Sat Jan 12, 2019 4:03 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Lyrics - moving individual hyphens
Replies: 5
Views: 3085

Re: Lyrics - moving individual hyphens

This is a real awkwardness, and I don't know of a perfect answer. What I do is use hyphenation as normal in the Lyrics window, but then break the offending hyphenated word into two with a normal space where the hyphen should be. Then I add hard spaces finished with a hard hyphen to the first syllabl...
by Simon_Furey
Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:16 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Underscores in lyrics?
Replies: 30
Views: 13166

Re: Underscores in lyrics?

PS Just in case anybody is interested, the reason I don't use hard space/underscore any more is that I now use a specialised font which has the % character replaced by the proper elision slur. It's much faster and more convenient. I can't understand why MM haven't implemented something similar in th...
by Simon_Furey
Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:00 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Underscores in lyrics?
Replies: 30
Views: 13166

Re: Underscores in lyrics?

I used to use underscore all the time as an elision slur. The trick is to use a hard space and underscore it.
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Simon
by Simon_Furey
Sat Dec 15, 2018 1:03 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Text in Lyrics Window disappearing W/ Solution
Replies: 6
Views: 4268

Re: Text in Lyrics Window disappearing W/ Solution

FWIW I have experienced the same problem for years, and I use a similar work-around. I never paste from Word into Finale directly because of all the formatting stuff that Word "inconveniently" hides. For anything other than the simplest songs I generally use some form of text editor for entering lyr...
by Simon_Furey
Mon Jul 23, 2018 7:09 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Change lyric/text default fonts
Replies: 4
Views: 2933

Re: Change lyric/text default fonts

From what you say, it sounds like you are not using templates. I use my own templates all the time, because they retain the font settings I want to use. You can either create your own template from scratch or modify an existing standard template to use the default fonts you need, remembering to save...
by Simon_Furey
Sat Jul 07, 2018 6:10 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Choral arrangers, what fonts do you use?
Replies: 6
Views: 4272

Re: Choral arrangers, what fonts do you use?

Before I say what fonts I use, it's worth noting what I am doing and why, because fonts are just part of the bigger picture. I should also point out that I too have crap eyesight (cataracts) so I need my scores for my own use! Almost all of my stuff is SATB unaccompanied, and the battle I always hav...