thanks for the links, i had another look but still can't see anything up to scratch - i need a gui interface where i can to create large orchestral scores to publication standard, output and transpose instrumental parts, design and import non standard notational symbols etc. etc. besides this i have dozens of scores already in Finale that need to be accessible to me Finale is working pretty well under Wine but i would just like to iron out the few glitches that are there thanks again, rob the link to mscore seems to be broken, or the page is down... -- robcanning <rscanning@xxxxxxxxxx> www.robcanning.utvinternet.com >sorry if this is slightly off-topic but to convert fully to linux audio >i need to be able to use notation - i've seen some of the open source >notation packages and none of them are up to the level of Finale yet. >i'm trying out finale 2000 on the WINE emulator for Linux on Redhat9. >I have put a copy of the maestro.ttf font into an X11 directory and >pointed my .wine/config file to that directory so now i have the font >showing up in finale. >My problem is all the little buttons in the simple entry panel are black >instead of showing up note/duration symbols - most of the other buttons >in the other entry panels are showing up ok. any linux/wine/finale >users out there??? >are the symbols on these buttons connected to maestro.ttf? >- reports of any experiences with using finale within WINE would be >greatly appreciated especially with regards to getting the midi .dll >side of things up and running. >
