Mark: > I haven't used Type in Score enough to have a thorough sense of it. I > always assumed that TIS works fine by itself, and it's only the attempt to > mix the two that leads to trouble. If you never go into the Edit Lyrics > window ever, then TIS is perfectly safe, right? You can add and delete all > you want and not worry about what's going on behind the curtain. Your > underlying data may become a convoluted mess, but as long as you never look > at it, does it matter?
I use both "type into score", and "edit lyrics" with equal facility, and I am pretty confident that I know how each work. They both have their place. The strengths of "type into score" are 1) that one sees instantly what one types, making it easy to amend the problem if you have misspelled a word, or inadvertantly typed an equals sign instead of hyphen; 2) that one immediately sees to which note each syllable is attached, and 3) that one rather quickly gets hints as to which measures may have problems with syllables running together. The biggest weaknesses are that every letter needs to be typed into the score, and manipulation of fonts / typefaces is limited. By contrast, the biggest strength of the "edit lyrics" system, is that one can type a block of text, and click assign it into score, and certain types of editing, for example replacing every occurrence of "ec-ce" with "éc-ce" (even with the absence of a search and replace feature). The biggest drawbacks are that editing that changes the number of syllables in the lyrics block changes the underlay in ways that cannot be undone, except by taking recourse to the "undo / redo features" list, and that if finds errors in spelling, or omissions of syllable separators, these are more difficult to correct in "edit lyrics" than in "type into score". As Marks states, there are typeface / font alterations that are more easily done in th edit lyrics dialog box than in Type into score. Both tools are powerful, and useful in their own way. I would not willingly give up either one. In my mind, though, it is a problem that editing using the two tools which I would expect that should show the same results in the lyrics block do not show the same results, and it is an even bigger problem that this fact is not noted in the documentation. ns _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
