Robert Patterson wrote:
> On Thu, 19 September 2002, "Dennis W. Manasco" wrote:
>
> > A database that allows itself to be
> > irretrievably corrupted through reasonable user actions is a pretty
> > fragile database.
>
> I agree with this statement, but I do not agree that Finale's lyrics
> implementation conforms to it. It is true that many users have this perception
> of Finale's lyrics implementation, but the perceptions stems from a failure to
> understand (and master) that implementation.
Sorry. The lyrics implementation has a significant, though not fatal flaw, which is
easily demonstrated in this simple test:
1) Create a two staff system, containing one measure in 4/4 time
2) Fill the measure on each staff with 4 quarter notes, your choice of pitch.
3) On each staff, assign the word "one" to the first quarter note in the upper
staff, "four" to the last note in the upper staff, "five" to the first quarter note
in the lower staff, and "eight" to the last note in the lower staff. It makes no
difference whether this is done by "type into score" or by "click-assigning"
syllables entered in the "edit lyrics" box.
4) Using "type into score", add the syllable "three" to the third note of the upper
staff.
5) Undo.
6) Using "edit lyrics", insert "three" between "one" and "four"; close the edit
window.
7) Undo.
8) Using "type" into score, delete the syllable "four".
9) Undo
10) Using "edit lyrics" delete the syllable "four" and close the window.
Now, "undo" will correct the lyric displacement that occurs in steps 6 and 10, but I
submit that since lyric displacement does not happen on type into score, it should
not happen after "edit lyric", either. The results of inserting or deleting
syllables in both modes should be exactly the same.
Finally, using "edit lyrics" to clean up extraneous hyphens from a lyric block has
results which I have not yet explored enough to understand completely. My
experience thus far suggests that in some cases, if there are two hyphens in
succession, with or without intermediate spaces, all but one of these can be removed
from the lyrics block with no detrimental effect, and hyphens which prefix a
syllable without an intermediate space can also be readily removed with no ill
effect; but otherwise, the removal of hyphens using the "edit lyrics" block is
beyond my present capability to predict.
ns
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