On 17 Apr 2005 at 21:21, Mark D Lew wrote: > On Apr 17, 2005, at 12:28 AM, d. collins wrote: > > > I also do mostly vocal music for several voices, with or without > > instruments, but still prefer, for a 5-movement 4-voice mass, for > > instance, one file for the whole work. I agree that that means > > scrolling a lot in the edit lyrics box, but you can always insert a > > blank line or two between the movements to locate things easier. But > > the advantages largely outweigh this minor inconvenience - > > especially when printing the whole thing as a booklet or extracting > > parts. > > When I have a large choral piece with many sections, I take advantage > of Finale's super-abundant supply of "verses". I've gone up to 20 or > so "verses" at times. The software allows for many more.
To me, the *only* reason for combining files is for parts. I have lots of old files that I created back in versions when the pieces were too big for all movements to comfortably live in one file. I shudder to think what it will be like when I get around to creating the parts. But in choral music, there are no parts -- the performers sing from the score, so I don't see an issue. > This makes it a lot easier to find things later, as well as to control > them. If things are complicated, I keep a simple text-file list of > what's where. Some users, I know, accomplish the same thing by > putting comments in the lyric text windows directly. I wish the lyrics editing tools have more flexibility, both in onscreen sizing and in modes of usage. I don't know why so many of the dialogs related to this seem to be non-resizable. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
