On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:00:03 +0200, <finale-requ...@shsu.edu> wrote: > I'm interested in why?
Common practice or not (and I have found enough counter examples in my library to call the "common practice" into question), it makes some syntactic sense that the comma (or semi-comma) does not occur within a word, and as the extension is a lengthening of the word, placing the comma between the word and its extension is misleading. Moreover, having the comma after the extension _could_ be useful to an interpreter, for example as a suggestion for breathing. Thank you, Dennis, for your elegant solution and examples. In any case, I'm preparing an edition of a choral score by the late Barney Childs, a composer (and an Oxford and Stanford-trained English scholar) who knew rather precisely what he wanted to do with texts, so I feel obliged to follow his notation here. Daniel Wolf _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
