Re: [Finale] Song Book recommendations

2007-08-01 Thread Robert Patterson
FWIW: Rather than mess with the "new" (as of Fin04) "smart" hyphenation, I reverted the setting back the old style. The only problem I had with the old hyphenation was its failure to continue past the first system. But the solutions for this are far easier than working around the problems in th

Re: [Finale] Song Book recommendations

2007-08-01 Thread Randolph Peters
Robert Patterson wrote: 1. Should I create a separate "verse" for the text of each song, or should I place all the text in one "verse"? If they are separate, won't I end up fiddling with base lines a great deal? Christopher Smith wrote: Assuming each song has only one line of lyrics, I would p

[Finale] Song Book recommendations

2007-07-29 Thread Jonathan Smith
I have not made much use of the lyrics feature of finale up until now. But I am starting a songbook, and if some one wants to let me know again about some of the issues around lyrics, I would appreciate it very much. I plan to combine all the songs into a single Finale file, unless I he

re: [Finale] Song Book recommendations

2007-07-29 Thread MB
Interspersed below, a couple more comments on your songbook project. Marilyn --- I have not made much use of the lyrics feature of finale up until now. But I am starting a songbook, and if some one wants to let me know again about some of the issues around lyrics, I would appreciat

Re: [Finale] Song Book recommendations

2007-07-29 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 28, 2007, at 1:04 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: I have not made much use of the lyrics feature of finale up until now. But I am starting a songbook, and if some one wants to let me know again about some of the issues around lyrics, I would appreciate it very much. I plan to combine

Re: [Finale] Song Book recommendations

2007-07-29 Thread Stig Christensen
If You want to place several text lines (verses) under the same staff (melody line) you have to put the text for each verse in it's own verse (in the lyrics edit window), otherwise all the textlines will be placed in the same position. So conclusion is text belonging to the same verse will

[Finale] Song Book recommendations

2007-07-28 Thread Robert Patterson
I have not made much use of the lyrics feature of finale up until now. But I am starting a songbook, and if some one wants to let me know again about some of the issues around lyrics, I would appreciate it very much. I plan to combine all the songs into a single Finale file, unless I hear it i