On 17 Sep 2002 at 17:24, David W. Fenton wrote: > On 17 Sep 2002 at 17:38, Raimund Lintzen wrote: > > > So why don't you copy your music+lyrics into a new (empty) file - > > then copy it again back to your first file. > > > > This procedure will make your lyrics be in a new verse. > > It also has a lot of really bad effects: > > 1. score expressions lose their staff list assignments. > > 2. duplicate expressions and articulations are created. > > Those alone are more time to fix than copying the original without > the lyrics. > > Why does this whole operation work so incredibly poorly? > > Isn't linking to the same verse the *exception* when repeating music? > Shouldn't it be an option instead of the default? > > This is something that seems to me to be incredibly badly > implemented.
All right, I'm beginning to get really angry. Having decided that pasting from a different file is too much work, I decided to try copying without the lyrics. The result, after many false starts where it didn't work at all, I see the lyrics being copied *anyway*, even though it is the one thing I have *unchecked*, and, like with the recent report on the madrigals, the baselines of the lyrics *from the beginning of the file* (i.e., not just what was newly pasted, but the original lyrics as well) has now been changed so that everything is about one staff too low. This is completely unacceptable behavior -- it is basically completely unusable in any fashion, by any of the various methods. What the hell am I going to do here? -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
