If you are doing "type into score" and/or using a lot of copy and paste with lyrics, be aware that Finale duplicates syllables like crazy (and trashes the lyric text blocks). That still doesn't probably get you to 32,767 syllables but it's worth mentioning anyway.
I always try to keep my lyrics text blocks pristine. That means turning off lyrics in the Edit Filter and never using Type Into Score. I use Click Assign to assign them and my Mass Copy plugin to copy assignments. Also, for a piece like St. Matthew Passion, I would without doubt place each movement in a different Lyric Verse. Even with all these precautions, Finale occasionally eats my lyric assignments. (That is, they disappear.) The only recourse then is to hit Undo until they reappear. Or if that's impossible, transfer the assignments (using my Mass Copy plugin) from a backup copy of the file. I'm looking at the lyric data structures I have access to. It may not only be a 32,767 limit on the number of syllables. It looks like there might also be a 32,767 limit on the number of characters. (The text block itself can be up to ~2 billion characters, but the syllable parsing may not be able to handle more than 32,767.) On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 5:57 AM, Barbara Touburg <btoub...@online.nl> wrote: > I'm sorry. I meant to send this to the list. > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Finale] Lyrics > Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 12:47:31 +0100 > From: Barbara Touburg <btoub...@online.nl> > To: Robert Patterson <rob...@robertgpatterson.com> > > On 16-2-2018 01:06, Robert Patterson wrote: > > I'm virtually certain you can't exceed 32,767 syllables in one verse. But > > that's only an outer limit. > > I'm entering a St Matthew Passion. This is a lot of text: 3083 syllables > so far. > At about 3000 syllables the strange behaviour began. The syllables were > invisible but selectable in the Lyrics Window and were *invisble* in the > score. I could change their appearance (f.e. italics or strike-through) > and then they reappeared in the score. > Finale should be capable of handling this many lyrics! > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
