IWBNI complete documentation of the ETF (Enigma Transportable File) file format were available. As it is now, the ETF file format is documented in the file ETFSPEC.PDF that is included with the Finale 2000 Plug-in Development Kit. However, this documentation is incomplete. For example, of the tags that are present in the Finale 2000 default file, the following items are not documented:

Undocumented Tags in Default File:

• All tags in the header section.
• The following tags in the others section:

&a,
&d,
&s,
0 through 46,
50 through 53,
56,
58 through 88,
90 through 94,
DA,
DL,
FB,
FI,
FN,
FY,
MP,
NY,
Ny,
OC,
PL,
SY,
XS,
ls,
oc,
sL,
sb
• The following tags in the detail section:

CL,
DF,
DN,
GT,
#v,
#c,
#s
• The following tags in the text section:

smartshape

Documented Tags in Default File:

• The following tags in the detail section:

DO (shape expression),
DT (text expression),
IK (chord playback),
IS (staff spec),
IV (chord suffix),
IX (articulation definition - documented in edata.h),
Iu (instrument used - documented in edata.h),
LA (layer preferences - documented in eprfdata.h),
MN (measure number region),
MS (measure spec),
PS (page spec),
RS (repeat style - documented in edata.h),
RT (text repeat style text - documented in edata.h),
SD (shape),
SS (staff system spec),
TX (text block),
pT (page text)
• The following tags in the text section:

block (raw text)

• A utility to convert files from Finale format to the format used by the SCORE music notation program, and vice versa. As it is now, there is a utility called FinalScor by San Andreas Press that can be used to convert postscript output files from Finale into SCORE files.

 
• A utility to convert files from Finale format to the NIFF format, and vice versa.

 
• A utility that processes Finale scores by operating directly on ETF files to automate various editing tasks.