Re: [Finale] lyrics discussion

2003-09-17 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Mark: > I haven't used Type in Score enough to have a thorough sense of it. I > always assumed that TIS works fine by itself, and it's only the attempt to > mix the two that leads to trouble. If you never go into the Edit Lyrics > window ever, then TIS is perfectly safe, right? You can add and

Re: [Finale] lyrics discussion

2003-09-17 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 5:08 PM 09/15/03, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: >What's wrong with opt-click (on the mac. I think it might me >Alt-Click on the PC) for click assignment of every syllable to >successive notes until a measure rest occurs? Unless you have >melismas on every syllable, it is very fast, and it is quit

Re: [Finale] lyrics discussion

2003-09-17 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 1:47 PM 09/15/03, Richard Huggins wrote: >Click Assignment has its degree of usefullness, but I sure as heck wish >they'd replace the "click" part. I hate moving the mouse to the next >syllable, clicking, then "rinse and repeat" to the end. I would like to be >able to use keystrokes to do this

Re: [Finale] lyrics discussion

2003-09-16 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 1:47 PM -0500 9/15/03, Richard Huggins wrote: Click Assignment has its degree of usefullness, but I sure as heck wish they'd replace the "click" part. I hate moving the mouse to the next syllable, clicking, then "rinse and repeat" to the end. I would like to be able to use keystrokes to do this

Re: [Finale] lyrics discussion

2003-09-15 Thread Richard Huggins
I've had little except very negative experiences with Opt-Click. It doesn't handle certain situations well. For example, I had one recently where at a given measure the sopranos went off onto a merry part of their own for a couple of measures while the text of the song was continued on by the altos

Re: [Finale] lyrics discussion

2003-09-15 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 1:47 PM -0500 9/15/03, Richard Huggins wrote: Click Assignment has its degree of usefullness, but I sure as heck wish they'd replace the "click" part. I hate moving the mouse to the next syllable, clicking, then "rinse and repeat" to the end. I would like to be able to use keystrokes to do this

Re: [Finale] lyrics discussion

2003-09-15 Thread Hans Arktoft
Hi, when in Click Assigment Mode, pressing the option key (Mac) while clicking the first note will save a lot of clicking, even if there'll be a certain amount of lyric shifting in some cases. I don't do much Lyrics and so I was not aware of this feature until just recently; maybe that's the cas

Re: [Finale] lyrics discussion

2003-09-15 Thread David W. Fenton
On 15 Sep 2003 at 13:47, Richard Huggins wrote: > Click Assignment has its degree of usefullness, but I sure as heck > wish they'd replace the "click" part. I hate moving the mouse to the > next syllable, clicking, then "rinse and repeat" to the end. I would > like to be able to use keystrokes to

Re: [Finale] lyrics discussion

2003-09-15 Thread Richard Huggins
Click Assignment has its degree of usefullness, but I sure as heck wish they'd replace the "click" part. I hate moving the mouse to the next syllable, clicking, then "rinse and repeat" to the end. I would like to be able to use keystrokes to do this, for the sake of speed. I don't share such a ne

Re: [Finale] lyrics discussion

2003-09-15 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/15/2003 11:21 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: >So, my conclusion is that, yes, lyrics are fundamentally messed up >but the problem is with Type In Score, not with lyrics in general, >and that if you avoid using it, the results turn out to be pretty >quick and easy to edit. I agree. I tried Type-i

[Finale] lyrics discussion (was Re: BUG fix / FIN 2k5 Feature Request)

2003-09-12 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
I wrote, in part:: > >First, I find, to my disappointment, that 2k4 does not fix a lyrics > >issue I previously reported, in which editing previously entered lyrics > >via "type into score" and "edit lyrics" do not give the same result. [...] to which Mark responded > I don't have 2k4 yet, so