On 19 Sep 2002 at 20:53, Mark D. Lew wrote: > At 9:18 PM 09/19/02, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > > >I don't enter consecutive hyphens as much anymore either, but they get > >generated in > >"type into score" mode when one has [...] > >[...] the original separators persist, so that an examination of the > >lyrics block shows something on the order of "Hal - - -le - lu- jah". > > Ah, OK, I get it now. Since I rarely use type in score, I wasn't familiar > with such patterns. As I noted before, any group of consecutive separator > characters is treated as a single separator, thus the redundant ones may be > safely removed. Removing non-redundant separators will result in lyrics > being shifted.
The main problem here is that in the only mode in which you can *see* the redundant separators, you can't tell where they are *used*. So, you can't really know if they are redundant or not. And that, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with the UI overall -- the only UI in which you can see everything you need from a musical point of view does not properly edit the underlying text stream. I would honestly be perfectly happy with lyrics if TYPE IN SCORE were properly integrated with the underlying text stream. That is, if I could never create problems that would require me to look in EDIT LYRICS, I'd be happy. -- 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
