Hi all-- a good while back (more than 2 years!) I asked this question and, behold!!, Philip Aker ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) developed the Text Editor PI for FinMac.
For a while it shipped with a Latin hyphenation dictionary I compiled. I don't know if it's available for WIN OS or not. While I'm currently using FinWin, I still export text files to my FinMac and run the PI on them. A *huge* time-saver!!!! After entering lyrics one invoked the PI and, Voila! One can as easily have an English hyphenation dictionary. The dictionary used is selectable, so you could write as many as you need. Philip tweaked the PI many times to allow for such things as hyphenation regardless of capitalization, repeated words, etc. One can easily add words to the dictionary using the various menu items of the PI, search for specific text among various lyrics, replace instances, etc., etc. Philip, are you still reading Finale-list?! best to you all-- Cecil Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Harrock Hall Music [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [Original Message] > From: Richard Huggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Finale List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 6/16/2003 12:21:07 AM > Subject: Re: [Finale] Auto-Hyphenation? > > Boy, wouldn't that be wonderful. I think the hyphenation features of word > processors just deal with end-of-line hyphenations when using justified > margins (or something like that...) > > But I think songwriters and engravers would be the only ones needing ALL > multi-syllabic words hyphenated. But if there's anything out there that did > it, I hope to learn about it, too. > > In addition to the drudgery of entering the hyphens there's those occasional > pesky words that you can't be 100% sure of the places where they divide, so > you have to look them up. I wonder how such a program would handle its > task--through a glossary of words or through spelling rules or through both > (library unless a word isn't in it, then rules...but still you'd probably > not rest well unless you looked it up) > > Richard > > > From: Darcy James Argue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Just wondering if anyone knew of any websites or whatnot that would > > automatically hyphenate English words? Might make transcribing lyrics > > easier -- just type them in straight, submit them for hyphenation, then > > copy them into Finale. Or can this be done with a word processor? > > "Hyphenate all syllables?" > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
