On Jun 6, 2004, at 6:14 AM, dhbailey wrote:
[answering Noel Stoutenberg, regarding Type in Score entry of lyrics]
and I'd ask some examples to explain this "quirky" behavior, as type into score seems pretty straightforward to me, Select a lyric type (verse, chorus, section), and number, and type the syllable below the note to which it is to be sung.
I know that when I have used type into score I have run into problems in editing the lyrics afterwards and in repairing mistakes I have made. [...]
Bingo. Your problem came when you used Type in Score and then tried to edit with Edit Lyrics afterward. The "quirky behavior" results from combining the two. It is not a problem in Type in Score alone.
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On Jun 6, 2004, at 1:16 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
OK, but the problem is not with type into score, it is with the edit dialog box, which does not properly adjust syllable assignments when one uses the edit dialog box in a manner which changes the total syllable count.
Correct, except for your word "properly". The Edit Lyrics box SHOULDN'T adjust syllable assignments when one changes the syllable count, because as often as not when one changes the syllable count in the Edit Lyrics box it is intentional. (Say, if a hyphen was left out of a two-syllable word.) For Edit Lyrics to "correct" this by reassigning all the syllables would be a disaster because it would mean if you opt-click-assigned an entire verse with a typo in the text, you'd have to undo the whole thing and start from scratch instead of just fixing the typo in the Edit Lyric data.
In other words, not reassigning syllables is as essential to the Edit Lyrics/Click Assign method of working as reassigning syllables is to the Type in Score method. It is a fundamental difference between the two, which in some cases becomes a fundamental incompatibility. That's why moving back and forth between the two can cause unwanted results if one doesn't know enough to take precautions.
mdl
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