Hello Robert, I deal with these types of elisions everyday. Back in the day we used to use an expression that was attached to a note. It worked well until I finally took the time to create fonts with editor specific placements for the many combinations of Spanish hymnal texts. I would share the font but it was created for a specific publisher.
In the link below is the "key" I created to work with the font. Hopefully this can help you figure out a system that may work for you, if you decide to create a font - OR - I've included the elision shape expression library I used in the earlier versions of Finale, that I still sometimes use. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/grk6qjpymzrrszo/AAAABpN1qzYMJUQDT7h1bOCua?dl=0 Hope this is helpful. Cheers! Steve Fiskum ________________________________________ From: Finale <finale-boun...@shsu.edu> on behalf of Robert Patterson <rob...@robertgpatterson.com> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2019 8:37 AM To: finale Subject: [Finale] Elision Slurs in lyrics Does anyone know a more professional approach to elisions than the way suggested in the Finale manual? The manual proposes the character shift-I from the Engraver Font Set. The big problem with that is that it leaves a gap between the two syllables. This is visually the opposite of what we want with an elision. In hymn books you often encounter two syllables eilided with no gap and a slur connecting them underneath. The official Finale technique, in my opinion (at least for English), is worse than just omitting elision slurs. I suppose I could use a shape expression, but that certainly would be tedious. _______________________________________________ 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
