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>sorry if this is slightly off-topic but to convert fully to linux audio

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>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.

>

>

>

Hi Rob,

If you want to make a really step, there's plenty of notation softwares

under gnu/linux :

ABC : http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/

or look at this page :

http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/one-page.html#notation

or http://www.xdt.com/ar/linux-snd/

best
juto