At 1:52 PM 07/16/02, Crystal Premo wrote: >I was thinking that that might be a possible solution as well. It still >seems that it would be an improvement to be able to "un-click assign", >perhaps by selecting a range of measures, un-assigning the lyrics, adding >the new lyrics in the Edit Lyrics window, and click assigning them again.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "un-click assign". If you mean delete the assignments from the score but leave the syllables alone in the Edit Lyrics window, you can do that with Mass Mover-> Clear Items-> Only Selected Items-> Entries->Lyrics. I sometimes use this when I've made a mess with some lyric assignments and it's easier to just start over. If you make an insertion into the Edit Lyrics box, you'll have to clear all assignments of every syllable following the insertion. If your usual practice is to click-assign in order and without recopying the same syllables elsewhere, then if you clear all the measures after the insert, you should be OK. But if you're doing anything out of order, you could still get unexpected results. This is the sort of thing I had in mind when I said you could manipulate an existing verse "if you know what you're doing". If you're not sure, it's easier to just use a separate verse and be safe. By the way, one disadvantage of liberal use of different verses is that if you want to adjust a baseline later, you only get one verse at a time. So if your lyrics are stored in more than one verse box, you might end up moving some but not the others. This happened to me just yesterday: I had to adjust two different baselines instead of just one. Not a big deal, of course, but I did say to myself, "Why the heck did I put those in two separate verses?" mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
