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by **Gerald angus** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 9:04 pm

I want a notation setup that looks like a piano sheet, G clef (treble) on top and F clef (bass) on the bottom I have somehow ended up with 2 G clefs and can't change the bottom one to a F or Bass clef. The docs refer to a pop-up menu but can't seem to find it.
OSX Panther Metro G4 6201 :?:

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by **Scoot** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 9:56 pm

With the cursor tool (arrow) double click on the clef and the dialog box called - "Setup Notation Track" opens.

by **Gerald angus** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 9:09 pm

Scoot wrote:With the cursor tool (arrow) double click on the clef and the dialog box called - "Setup Notation Track" opens.

Yes, I get there too.. but after that, what?
There are no other options at that point to alter any clefs that I can see.
And where is/are the "popup" as refered to in the Metro docs?
Thanks for your help thus far
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by **Scoot** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:02 am

You have the setup notation track dialog box open?

Click on the clef on the right.

A set of 14 boxes appear with 13 clef options and a space holder in the last.

by **Jerm** » Sun Jul 18, 2004 12:02 pm

You can also get to the setup notation track from the special menu.

by **Gerald angus** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 8:14 am

Yes, I can open the "setup notation track dialog box" no problem, but for me when I click on the the clef in the right frame I get NO pop-up with clefs to choose from..
867 Dual MDD gig ram Panther ATI 9000...
any other ideas ?
just does not happen for me.
thanks again..
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by **Gerald angus** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 8:41 am

Replying to myself here, just to add:
Using G4 2.1.3 but happens with 2.1.2 also.
Could the problem be at all related to having Aloisen or the gray Aloisen in the wrong place?
thanks
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by **Gerald angus** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:00 am

and yet a little more, but I would really like to get this cleared up.
I also realized that I do not even get those popup menus on my Notation Window like for note selection etc.
I'm missing that too right?
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by **Jerm** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 11:36 am

Have you tried restarting your computer?

by **Scoot** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 1:39 pm

Metro G4 is the full metro version?
(I mean it's not G4 SE?....if there is such a thing)

Panther is 10.3.?

My Aloisen is in the fonts folder in OS9 on my machine.

by **Gerald angus** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 1:47 pm

Yes, I did a restart after checking font locations.
Also, I Did notice that if I load a music file that has 2 or 3 tracks, each track will be on a separate staff and clef in the notation window and that when I bring up the setup window I can page through each track with a "Previous" or "Next" button box and can see different clefs on occasion but there is still no popup menu available to CHANGE them if I want. Yet the docs say that clef changes are available...
However, I am generally quite impressed with the notation addition to Metro and over-all it works quite well actually.
I do a lot of music that starts with writing in the notes rather than recording them and used "Encore Finale" for a while but Finale was a little weak with MIDI back then. I was just trying to find out if I had things set up wrong or perhaps my system was corrupt.
Thanks for all the help here.
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by **Scoot** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:01 pm

Make sure you only have one version of metro available to you at a time.....mainly the latest one I guess.....if you trust it.
It should do notation clef changes.......well it does them here.

Have you....or are you willing to throw away you metro prefs?
You will have to resubmit your authorization......but at least everything is then back to original in case thats where the problem lies.
It can sometimes do wonders for dumb computers. :lol:

by **Jerm** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:04 pm

As in the above picture, if you click where the arrow cursor is, you do not

get the clef popup as shown?

by **Gerald angus** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 5:51 pm

Right, if I click there, nothing happens at all. On one occasion a treble clef changed to a treble clef with an 8 under it when I got back to the notation window.... that was a little strange too.

Also, on that "one version availible at a time " well, I have 5 older versions in a folder above the latest version that I am using. Should that matter ? or should I trash them or hide them somewhere, just in case ?
thanks

by **Scoot** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 11:12 pm

It would pay to compress and archive the older versions while fault finding. Older documents could open up older versions of metro and Jerm could be telling you it will work (and he may be talking about the newest version with a bug fix) and you've accidently launched an older metro.

This can sometimes stuff up the registration process too.

A clef with an 8 under it is on Jerm's graphic....I'd almost call that progress.

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