As a matter of fact, the comma _after_ the word extension is not only more logical, as Daniel has pointed out, but also standard practice in Bärenreiter's Telemann Edition (which is what I happen to have open at the moment) and (probably) also the NBA (the publications, not the teams!). So it would be _really_ nice to have this option. MM, are you listening? By the way, as Dennis 1 has pointed out, we can achieve this through the use of hard spaces. The simplest solution is to space normally, then put a comma on the first note after the melisma, followed by two hard spaces and the new syllable. Eric ************************************************ Habsburger Verlag Frankfurt (Dr. Fiedler) www.habsburgerverlag.de eric.f.fied...@t-online.de e.fied...@em.uni-frankfurt.de ************************************************
On 07.08.2011, at 17:11, Mark D Lew wrote: > On Aug 4, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Daniel Wolf wrote: > >> 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. > > I agree with Daniel on this, and I was a little surprised to see so many > people say or imply this is unorthodox. I've seen plenty of old sources that > put the comma after the word extension, and I prefer it. I also had a regular > client who asked for it that way, and I had to tell her it couldn't be easily > done. I think this is another case where limitations of the software have > forced a standard, and it's been long enough now that people think it's weird > to see it any other way. > > mdl > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
