David W. Fenton wrote: > What I understand now is that the lyrics subsystem is designed around > a number of assumptions about the way lyrics ought to work: > > 1. all voices will sing exactly the same lyrics at one time or the > other. > > 2. the punctuation and capitalization of the lyrics in all the voices > will be exactly the same. > > Thus, you should enter the lyrics once, and then click assign from > the single statement of the lyrics to particular notes. > > I think this is a really poor assumption, for TYPE INTO SCORE is the > more obvious entry method, and it can't work that way. It creates a > complete jumble in the EDIT LYRICS window.
I have to say this here now - too many people have indicated that the only reliable way of handling lyrics is to enter them via the Edit window and click assign them - well let me tell you guys, that until recently 90% of my workload was choral music and after I got comfortable with Finale's lyric scheme, I only used the Type into Score. Now granted, I'm not a composer, I am strictly an engraver working from finished products, so I don't have to go back in and maybe change a section - that might be trickier. But for engraving, I find typing into the score works like a charm; it is fast and I have had no problems whatsoever (actually here and there is a little hyphen bug flying around). I even don't use different verse numbers for different staves - all my lyrics are in Verse 1 - unless we have a piece that has 2 or more verses stacked - then, and only then, do I use Verse 2. Just thought I'd say that it is possible to work efficiently like that... Thomas Schaller _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
