Harold wrote:
1) Enter all the lyrics for the highest part before moving to lower
parts. This assures that the order of entries will show up in the Edit
box in the right order.
It is my experience, going back to WINFIN 2k, that it is more important
to enter the first syllable for each staff in
Dear folks,
Having just returned from a lovely week's vacation, I've enjoyed the
current thread. I haven't the slightest idea how it evolved from
"Finale vs. Sibelius."
Anyway, I deal with choral music most of the time, and I've settled
on Type Into Score - having used Click Assignment after en
I wrote:
OK, but the problem is not with type into score, it is with the edit
dialog box, which does not properly adjust syllable assignments when
one uses the edit dialog box in a manner which changes the total
syllable count.
to which Mark replied
Correct, except for your word "properly". Th
At 09:13 PM 6/6/2004, John Howell wrote:
>Where? How!? That might make it almost useable!!!
Spelling is under Tools | Options | Spelling & Grammar -- uncheck "Check
Spelling as You Type". Most other auto things are under Tools |
AutoCorrect. This is Word 2000 on Win; YMMV on other platforms or
At 7:50 PM -0400 6/4/04, Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 06:55 PM 06/04/2004, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
For example, I HATE the way Microsoft Word
makes assumptions about what I want done with my typing, like
"correcting" my spelling without telling me, or putting bullets or
numbers when I hit carriage r
On Jun 6, 2004, at 5:01 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Style sheets would be a fantastic addition to Finale!
I could be wrong, but my sense is that incorporating style sheets
directly into Finale is too impractical to even consider as a feature
request to MakeMusic.
What is less impractical, I think, is to
On Jun 6, 2004, at 6:14 AM, dhbailey wrote:
[answering Noel Stoutenberg, regarding Type in Score entry of lyrics]
and I'd ask some examples to explain this "quirky" behavior, as type
into score seems pretty straightforward to me, Select a lyric type
(verse, chorus, section), and number, and type
At 6:55 PM -0400 6/4/04, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
At 2:00 PM -0700 6/04/04, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Layout would probably NOT be linked, but NOTES would. Does that
make sense? I can't count how many times I've changed something in
a score and FORGOT to update it in a part. Re extracting the part
David Bailey wrote:
I know that when I have used type into score I have run into problems
in editing the lyrics afterwards and in repairing mistakes I have
made. I stopped using it after repeatedly trying to use it and not
being able to make it work correctly. I simply use the Edit Lyrics
and
At 8:33 AM -0700 6/06/04, Brian Williams wrote:
Good luck trying this out. Let me know what you think! Over the years I've
developed many time-saving tricks involving this method feel free to email
me if you have any questions.
Brian
Brian,
I'm replying to the list because I think there are others
Chuck Israels wrote:
Sitting here with Dave Berger - showing him this discussion around which
I lurk, and he suggested that having a check box choice might be a
useful solution: "Do you want to change the parts, or not?"
(Dave is still working with pencils - sometimes faster than we can, and
will
Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
David Fenton wrote:
Well, as much as I complained about lyrics in my first big project
with them (in August 2002), now that I learned from all the gurus here
on the list, I find it pretty darned easy to use. The main point:
DON'T USE TYPE INTO SCORE
Once you figure that
David Fenton wrote:
Well, as much as I complained about lyrics in my first big project
with them (in August 2002), now that I learned from all the gurus here
on the list, I find it pretty darned easy to use. The main point:
DON'T USE TYPE INTO SCORE
Once you figure that out, it's pretty easy t
Richard Yates wrote:
I realized that we are into June now - the usual time of year that
speculation begins about the release and anticipated new features of the
next version of Finale. Unlike other years, however, a maintenance updater
to fix the most glaring bugs and steps-backward of the last ver
Chuck Israels wrote:
Sitting here with Dave Berger - showing him this discussion around which
I lurk, and he suggested that having a check box choice might be a
useful solution: "Do you want to change the parts, or not?"
(Dave is still working with pencils - sometimes faster than we can, and
wi
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 4 Jun 2004 at 22:17, Mark D Lew wrote:
On Jun 4, 2004, at 9:29 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Lyric tool works well.
Really? Lyric tool works well if you know what you're doing, or if
you never do anything complicated, but it has lots of pit-traps that
the unwray can fall in
At 1:08 AM -0700 6/06/04, Brian Williams wrote:
You can just as easily update parts (using copy & paste) that have been
extracted using the SPE method as those that have been formatted using the
"normal" method. There is no need to undo and redo SPE in order to revise or
paste copied material from
David W. Fenton wrote:
[snip]>
Indeed, properly it should be implemented like stylesheets for web
pages. You can change the entire look of a web page (not just colors
and fonts) by changing to a different stylesheet. If Finale files
stored a score layout that defined systems and page layout, and
At 11:17 PM -0400 6/05/04, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Hi Chris,
I don't think you're getting what Brian is talking about here. I
haven't actually tried his method yet -- frankly, it never occurred
to me -- but boy does it ever look like a time-saver!
No, I got it.
Like he said, his files will be
On Jun 5, 2004, at 8:18 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
[responding to David Fenton's suggestion]
DON'T USE TYPE INTO SCORE
Once you figure that out, it's pretty easy to use.
which I must say, does not match my experience at all. After several
years of creating choral music in various layout pattern
Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
> "Normal" part extraction, obviously, doesn't allow automatic updates.
> However, the "Express" method (I actually use a streamlined version
> myself, unless I really need the other benefits) allows you to update
> the score once, then copy and paste from the score to e
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