On Friday, Sep 20, 2002, at 17:47 US/Pacific, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
> 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. Thing is that a non-destructive edit implies a fixed source. The analogy to the (essentially) raw data storage format of sound files simply doesn't jive with the exponentially more complex database type of storage and relationships Enigma utilizes. However, I did enjoy the notion of a "lock" though. Perhaps most importantly though, any proposals for changing Finale's text/lyric formats, linking, and representation must consider Unicode because that's now the international standard. Text and lyric storage should slide over to an XML tagged format. This would permit internal mechanisms such as keeping null slots for deleted syllables so that the links could ripple forward or back easily and thus maintain their correspondences correctly. And the possibility of a "de-frag" which would compact, re-order, and relink when such things were deemed desirable by the user. With the combination of XML and Unicode, the representation for hyphens could be changeable between Unicode slots or an indicator that a certain custom graphic should be used. In addition, there could be descriptive tags so that a few rendering characteristics could be specified. Similar flexibility for word extensions (as a property of a syllable). Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
