On 22 Sep 2002 at 4:05, Mark D. Lew wrote: > At 8:18 AM 09/21/02, Bernard Savoie wrote: > > >I second Linda's comment. I've also been a long-time user [...] > > But once I > >understood the way the lyrics tool works I have seldom had any problems, > > [...] But you have to be aware of the pitfalls which you can easily fall > >into. > > Actually, I think that most of the people who complained about the lyrics > tool weren't complaining about actual problems experienced. Rather, they > objected that the pitfalls exist at all, and that a user must learn how to > avoid them. They are taking the position that the tool ought to be 100% > safe from the get-go.
Well, 98% safe. And the 2% risk should be relatively easy to recover from. The part that got me was that once my lyrics were messed up, editing them with the UI that I used to put them in was not getting rid of everything that was onscreen. There were hidden hyphens that were causing extra word continuation hyphens to overstrike the real text, and I was unable to get to that data with the TYPE IN SCORE user interface. Once I mucked around in the EDIT LYRICS dialog and saw the extra syllables and hyphens, and then cleaned things up there, I was eventually able, with complete re-assignment via SHIFT LYRICS of 75% of the lyrics of one staff, to fix the problem without having to clear out all the lyrics and start over. So, it looks about 85% safe with 10% of the risk covered by the UIs available. This is not as bad as it seemed to me before I managed to fix it, but a large part of my dismay came from your recommendation, Mark, that I clear all lyrics and start over. That Draconian solution was not warranted at all, and you would be better not to offer it so soon in such a troubleshooting process. My hysteria would have been greatly lessened had you held your tongue a little while! -- 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
