At 4:22 PM +0200 8/4/11, Daniel Wolf wrote: >Finale 2011, Windows. > >I'd like have punctuation marks follow word extensions in lyrics (i.e. >"line ends with this word_________,") , but Finale seems to really wants >to keep commas etc. attached to the word before and have the word >extension follow the punctuation mark. Obviously I'm missing something... > >Daniel Wolf >Frankfurt
Daniel: Just FYI. I don't know about German, but in English the proper practice is to have punctuation attached to the WORD itself, and not delayed until after the extension. And any deviation from common practice is likely to confuse singers. That's why it requires a kludge. John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:john.how...@vt.edu) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen es wie Sie wollen, machen es nur schön!" (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
