NOTATIO

Anders Hedelin wrote: ↑

25 Mar 2020, 15:26

And if Fin... No, forget that.

Haha! I would say "Finally!"

Just as an aside, but apropos: Paul Dukas has said one of the best things ever on composing, which became a sort of motto with me when teaching composition: Pour composer il faut savoir beaucoup et faire de la musique avec ce q’on ne sait pas. In my homemade translation: To compose you have to know...

odod wrote: ↑

17 Mar 2020, 01:14

how about this ..

Hm, I don't know. Except the staff trick, I wish to see how the software does a complex notation, incl. spacing, curves and lines, positioning etc. etc.

I am very pleased to work with Igor, any project of notation is completed without much hassle before the deadline and in top quality engraving (Look some scores from Edition Peters etc.). I also had some very weird modern notations, but Igor did it without a problem. Ehh ... I didn't go into some e...

Igor was indeed a very good software for that time, and having linked parts long time before Sibelius. Some scores of Edition Peters were done in it. I believe that it could had developed further wonderfully from that starting point, but after they stopped developing it the owners didn't want to rel...

There is no video (yet known) available, but here are available document presentations from the conference:
https://gitlab.com/MusicEngravingConference/2020

I have a printer that once printed a Finale file (actually PDF) so that all horizontal lines were dashed. No other lines nor curves were affected. So all staff lines were dashed for instance and all other horizontal lines su h as pedal lines or so. I don't remember how I fixed it. Yes, it can happen...

What I can only guess is that there was a problem with the printing machines. So they printed several thousand copies and than sent them to the stores.

David Ward wrote: ↑

01 Mar 2020, 08:32

Shift-Fn-Delete works as clear; but that needs two hands. Is there a one-handed option?

Fn.... I would never had guessed!
Thank you.

benwiggy wrote: ↑

29 Feb 2020, 21:16

It took several years of my pestering before they added something as minimal as a shortcut for the Clear key for Mac laptops!

Puh!!!! I didn't know that it existed, I needed it so many times. And what's the key??