On 19 Sep 2002 at 16:20, Thomas Schaller wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > > Anyway, on to my solution: > > > > I took someone's advice to insert !!!! and @@@@ symbols in the lyrics > > via TYPE IN SCORE so that I could find them in the EDIT LYRICS > > window. What I saw was a jumble of lyrics, with parts of one word > > stuck in the middle of other words. Clearly, the order in which I'd > > entered was not exactly linear. Then I took Thomas's advice above and > > tried deleting lyrics in the EDIT LYRICS window first, and found that > > I was then missing things in the score. So, following through with > > Thomas's advice, I then deleted the lyrics that remained in the > > score. This caused a mess with the rest of the lyrics of the piece > > Aha - I thought I was giving good advice - I guess I should have included > one more fact: > > you can't just partially delete lyrics from the Edit window and hope the > rest of your piece stays intact - everything is linked with each > other....but I guess you found that out in the meantime. > If you wanted to keep part of your score as is, then the best way is to > delete the lyrics with Mass Mover from the infected section, then use a new > verse number, or type the text at the end!!!!!! of this verse and click > assign it... (if you intend to edit the lyrics in the Edit window, then you > better use a new verse number, so you can find them more easily).
Well, despite the tediousness of SHIFT LYRICS, I ended up with a correct result, and it didn't take all that long. Had the lyrics in question been at the *beginning* of the EDIT LYRICS window, then I would have been better off starting over from scratch. Thanks to all who've offered advice on recovery. I don't have to redo the lyrics, and for that I'm very glad. -- 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
