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by dankreider
Fri Sep 24, 2021 1:20 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: dead horse
Replies: 164
Views: 99171

Re: dead horse

For example, to enter a tuplet in Speedy with Finale, I can just press ctrl+(a number) to start inputting that tuplet. In Dorico I press a key that launches a small window into which I enter my tuplet value, then press enter and then continue my note entry, then need to toggle OFF the tuplet entry ...
by dankreider
Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:56 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: dead horse
Replies: 164
Views: 99171

Re: dead horse

motet wrote:
Sat Sep 11, 2021 5:49 pm
You need a 64-bit version of the OS for Dorico.
Officially maybe, but as I said, several folks on the forum have said they’re using Dorico 3 with Windows 7 with no problems.
by dankreider
Sat Sep 11, 2021 5:27 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: dead horse
Replies: 164
Views: 99171

Re: dead horse

I’ve not used it myself, but I’ve heard from other users who are running it successfully on Windows 7, as long as Aero Glass is enabled. I would assume 8 and 8.1 would work as well.

You could easily secure a free 30-day trial and give it a go.
by dankreider
Sat Sep 11, 2021 3:18 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: dead horse
Replies: 164
Views: 99171

Re: dead horse

Although I switched over to Dorico three years ago, I continue to use Finale from time to time as needed. And I’m really sad to see the incredible neglect on the part of MakeMusic. Finale was really such a top-drawer program for decades, and we all benefit from Finale, Dorico, and Sibelius continuin...
by dankreider
Tue Jun 15, 2021 6:15 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Demo available to download now
Replies: 11
Views: 3142

Re: Demo available to download now

TBoliske wrote:
Tue Jun 15, 2021 5:38 pm
Thanks for posting. I've made the jump into the deep end and purchased. Starting the program is currently an issue for me as it hangs, or at least seems to take a long time, then I need to force quit.
I’ve had the same problem.
by dankreider
Wed May 26, 2021 2:03 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: File sharing
Replies: 18
Views: 3308

Re: File sharing

What can Finale do that Dorico can't yet? One of Finale's strengths is that you can customize just about anything if you don't like the defaults. Does Dorico take that philosophy as well? Finally, can users write scripts and/or plug-ins? BuonTempi listed the main ones. I’ll add another: custom staf...
by dankreider
Tue May 25, 2021 2:20 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: File sharing
Replies: 18
Views: 3308

Re: File sharing

I've wanted to try Dorico, but it's such an alien way of working, when compared to Finale. I think, at least in my case, it will be a very steep learning curve. If I recall it also required Windows 10? that's not going to happen until I really can't help it and my computers die from old age. I had ...
by dankreider
Wed May 19, 2021 12:40 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?
Replies: 18
Views: 3709

Re: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?

Very interesting to know that these careted numbers originated with Schenker!

By the way John, I don’t know if you saw, but on the MusAnalysis forum I posted an update to solve this issue.
by dankreider
Tue May 18, 2021 6:15 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?
Replies: 18
Views: 3709

Re: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?

It’s a scale degree. Common in all sorts of analysis. And easier to input as lyrics.
by dankreider
Tue May 18, 2021 1:45 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?
Replies: 18
Views: 3709

Re: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?

It’s because those characters are present in the font you tested, and Finale is helpfully joining the caret and the base character, since if assumes you want them joined. And I agree it’s helpful, just not in this case where that caret behavior breaks the ligature I’ve created.
by dankreider
Mon May 17, 2021 8:24 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?
Replies: 18
Views: 3709

Re: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?

Aha, I wondered if that might be the case. Thanks Jan. Indeed, other ligatures work just fine. Apparently the caret is somewhat “reserved” by Finale in lyrics, just like the hyphen... Do you know of any other characters that might be off-limits? There are a finite number of characters to use, but I’...
by dankreider
Mon May 17, 2021 11:57 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?
Replies: 18
Views: 3709

Re: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?

Peter, the ^4 is a ligature, which is a substitution. It's not combining the number and caret, it's substituting that key combination for an entirely different glyph: one that looks like a number with a caret on top. These glyphs already exist within MusGlyphs, 1-8. Try it with the text tool, and yo...
by dankreider
Mon May 17, 2021 1:26 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?
Replies: 18
Views: 3709

Re: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?

Hi Peter, thanks for asking. Any project replicates it. You need this font (which is free, and you may find it useful anyways).

Once you have it installed, in any Finale project, type ^3, for example. It works in the text tool, but not in the lyric tool.
by dankreider
Sun May 16, 2021 2:15 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?
Replies: 18
Views: 3709

Re: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?

miker wrote:
Sun May 16, 2021 3:35 am
I wonder if it’s because the code isn’t written to allow that mark over a numeral?
The thing is, this is a dedicated ligature within the font. In this font, a caret followed by a number produces a scale degree number. All other ligatures display correctly, just not ones that use the caret.
by dankreider
Sun May 16, 2021 1:58 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?
Replies: 18
Views: 3709

What's the deal with the caret in lyric entry?

I'm noticing that any ligatures that include the asciicurcum (^) break in lyrics. They look correct during entry, but break as soon as the lyrics advance: https://i.imgur.com/ATiSg48.gif Is this something particular to the way that lyrics parse the caret? I couldn't find anything by searching. This ...
by dankreider
Sun May 16, 2021 1:55 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale 27 blog post
Replies: 32
Views: 7546

Re: Finale 27 blog post

I don't use SMuFL, but that sounds like a good thing. I wonder how revising the instrument list makes the notation look good? The MusicXML update might be worth it, for the day when MakeMusic goes under and we need to flee to Dorico. It's on my list of things to do to run all my pieces through the ...
by dankreider
Wed May 12, 2021 12:59 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Non-breaking Hyphen
Replies: 8
Views: 1911

Re: Non-breaking Hyphen

Yes, I found it much easier to just map this function to a character like the period instead of the hyphen.

Dorico pulls the hyphen automatically using Alt-hyphen, but Finale does not.
by dankreider
Tue May 11, 2021 8:58 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Non-breaking Hyphen
Replies: 8
Views: 1911

Re: Non-breaking Hyphen

Thanks all. I think I'm just going to re-map this sort of thing to a different character entirely.
by dankreider
Tue May 11, 2021 8:07 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Non-breaking Hyphen
Replies: 8
Views: 1911

Re: Non-breaking Hyphen

Thanks Peter. Is there an easy way to assign that to a key binding in Finale?

If not, I think the easiest solution will be to swap out the hyphen or another character in the analysis font so there's no conflict with the hyphen advancing the lyric entry.
by dankreider
Mon May 10, 2021 5:30 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: MusAnalysis
Replies: 8
Views: 2070

Re: MusAnalysis

Just a quick note to say that MusAnalysis has been updated on Notation Central. I’ve added a ton of things (that “.1” is a big number), and there’s comprehensive documentation now.

Please let me know what feedback you have and I’ll continue making improvements.
by dankreider
Sun May 09, 2021 10:31 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: MusAnalysis
Replies: 8
Views: 2070

Re: MusAnalysis

Dear Dan, your font is perfectly working on Mac (I tested it with Finale 26, iWork Pages, InDesign and Illustrator (OS Mojave)). This is the first specialized multipurpose text font, created with extraordinary attention to details which utilizes two important font features — namely ligas and contex...
by dankreider
Tue May 04, 2021 7:08 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: MusAnalysis
Replies: 8
Views: 2070

Re: MusAnalysis

Thanks! Yes, I believe that's correct. Finale is unfortunately the picky one here: Dorico, Sibelius, and MuseScore all recognize the ligatures successfully.

I'll post an update here when it's fixed.
by dankreider
Tue May 04, 2021 5:13 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: MusAnalysis
Replies: 8
Views: 2070

Re: MusAnalysis

Ok, it seems it works in Finale on Mac, but not on Windows...
by dankreider
Tue May 04, 2021 3:39 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: MusAnalysis
Replies: 8
Views: 2070

Re: MusAnalysis

Oops... there's a little error in the script (I think), so at the moment it doesn't work in Finale. I'm working on fixing that.