I wrote, in part:
>
>
> >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.
>
> I agree that the two modes should be the same. More specifically, I think
> that inserting or deleting syllables in the Edit Lyrics should not result
> in lyric shift. This problem would be solved if every insertion or
> deletion in the Edit Lyrics box caused assignments to subsequent syllables
> to be incremented or decremented accordingly (as I recommended elsewhere).
> In the example you cite, that would make Edit Lyrics edits behave the same
> as Type in Score edits.
>
> All of this has nothing to do with undo, which behaves properly in all
> cases here.
>
> >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.
to which Mark responded, in part:
> Furthermore, in my experimentation with Type-in-Score, I can't find
> a way to cause either of these to be created. Thus, I'm not sure why you'd
> ever have consecutive separators in the first place.
I don't enter consecutive hyphens as much anymore either, but they get generated in
"type into score" mode when one has typed a hyphenated word ("Hal-le-lu-jah") in a
melismatic passage, and gotten the wrong syllable attached to the wrong notes,
i.e., the first syllable should have been assigned to the first note, the second to
the fifth, the third to the eighth, and the last to the twelfth note, and through
carelessness I assigned them to the fourth, ninth, and twelfth. If one goes into
"type into score" and deletes the second and third syllable, and retypes them on
the correct notes, the original separators persist, so that an examination of the
lyrics block shows something on the order of "Hal - - -le - lu- jah".
Syllables can persist for other reasons, too. When I go back to some of my
earliest efforts, I sometimes find "ghost" syllables in the lyrics box. Though I
cannot be certain this is the case, I now suspect that these arise from deleting a
note to which the syllable was assigned, entering a new note in the same place in
the measure, and entering the new syllable with "type into score". Today I would
attach the old syllable to the new note using "click assignment."
ns
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