At 3:52 PM -0800 9/20/02, Mark D. Lew wrote: >At 6:52 AM 09/20/02, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: > >>What if you are in a first ending, and the lyric is "a-bout" with the >>first syllable on the last note of the first ending? Is the hyphen >>extended to the first syllable of the second ending, which might not >>need a hyphen? What if there is no vocal line at all in the second >>ending, or until the end of the piece? Will the hyphen get extended >>endlessly, as it does now? What if there is no vocal line in the >>FIRST ending, only the second? Will the hyphen get extended through >>the first box to the second ending, as it does now? > >You can easily kludge this by putting an opt-space (or whatever the Windows >equivalent is) on the next note after the open-ended hyphen. > >mdl
I'm on Mac, but the only thing your solution does is make the hyphen (which should be butt up against the first syllable on its right side) drift over to halfway between the first syllable and the opt-space. Also, the next note after the open-ended hyphen usually has its own syllable attached, so there is no need for an opt-space. Right now my kludge is to use an opt-hyphen (which is really an m-dash) instead of the hyphen. But my question was aimed at the intended implementation of hyphens that Dennis was proposing. I'm familiar with sound editing programs such as Pro Tools and Cubase Audio, so I know approximately about the mapping procedure he suggests. I'm just not convinced that it is practical for lyrics. After all, the lyric is so small compared to a sound file; the mapping info for a syllable might be an order of magnitude larger than the syllable itself, at least! Plus, the way lyrics are usually handled is so sequential, compared to sound or video editing, that I think the way it is laid out now might be a better system (with the exception, of course, of David's big beef, that it would be better to have copied lyrics duplicated instead of mirrored as a default, and you had some very good suggestions in your last post as well, to which I add my suggestion of having a simple shift-click or something inside click-assignment to un-assign syllables, instead of the present 6-click method.) _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
