In a message dated 9/17/02 4:45:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< What the hell am I going to do here? >> You can start by calming down. Once you know how this works (or doesn't - for you) you can plan your approach. First of all - you can NOT selectively copy different elements BETWEEN documents. Coda has implemented some safeguards that you might appreciate more if your situation were different. One of them is how lyric verses are treated when copying between documents. It works like this - *IF* there are lyrics present in the target document than the pasted lyrics are placed in the next open verse number - this could be verse #13, for instance, especially if you've done a lot of pasting with lyrics. This can cause a lot of baselines to be far from where you'd want the lyrics placed. It is a simple matter of changing the baseline numbers of all of those verses to reflect the same numbers as verse #1, or (w/type into score selected) click on a low lyric to display the cursor and hit shift-dn arrow until the lyric highlights and drag the first triangle where you want the baseline for the selected verse. In the situation you just described I would delete the lyric from the section you want to copy - copy/paste into your target document - then Undo in your source file to return the lyrics to their proper placement. >>It means that I don't get the benefit of knowing where the lyrics are that I'm going to change.<< If you use the Selection Tool to select the lyric in question, this will automatically take you to the current verse that the lyric assigned to. Articulations are duplicated for similar reasons to the lyrics issue. If they are truly the same, then what's the problem? I, personally, would swap them out (see change articulation) but that might be too much work for you. If Finale had to compare every articulation, lyric verse, element, etc. when copying between documents, imagine how awful that would be and how long it would take. Are you suggesting that as the alternative? We all have to learn to deal with these issues and get our jobs done. If you know how these things work, it will help you get through it. This is clearly the first time you have needed to do this, David, or you wouldn't be so shocked. You haven't just uncovered some hidden bug that nobody knows about - this is how it works and has for a very long time. I hope you can deal with it and get through your project. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
