----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark D Lew" <markd...@earthlink.net>
> I don't agree with that. I understand that the standard is to only use a > word extension when a syllable continues to another note, but in a > situation where one voice has a long whole note while others are doing > something else, I think the irregular courtesy word extension does no harm > and could be helpful. If a client asks for such a thing, I don't think > it's an unreasonable request, I don't think it will cause any confusion in > rehearsal, and I wouldn't tell him it's "incorrect notation". Mark, I don't yet know what the choir will be doing while the cantor is canting. This piece is a forced revision to my client's original work because there have been changes made to the actual church service. I'm not a Catholic so I'm not familiar with this. So far I only have the original score and the revisions to the booklet used by the congregation. The revised score isn't ready yet. The choir is holding a long note in the original, but I believe this is going to be changed. I believe the extension lines were drawn because the cantor has to delay the words to an extent, or maybe more accurately, hold certain syllables, but until the score is completed I can't tie everything in together. > But anyway, I don't think this is actually what Peter is asking for. His > real issue is that he's putting multiple syllables under one long note. > When you do this, Finale refuses to allow a space, hyphen or underscore > among them, because its UI treats that as a code to jump to the next note. > For the space you can substitute a hard space. For the hyphen you can > supposedly substitute a hard hyphen, though in many fonts it will look > wrong. For an underscore you're out of luck. > > What I would do here is to enter the whole intoned bit as a text box > instead of a lyric. (You may want to initially enter it as a lyric to help > with getting the font size and baseline properly aligned, but then delete > the lyric once you have the text box in place.) > > mdl You've hit the nail on the head Mark. I've actually entered the lines and words using a note expression. It works fine, and of course it will move with the note if any layout changes are made later. I'm treating this as a proofing draft for the time being. I fully expect it will need to be changed later when I get the revised score. Many thanks Peter _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
