Re: [Finale] different syllabification in different verses

2013-01-21 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jan 21, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Phil Daley wrote: > I don't get it at all. > > Where is the alto line? > > What it the bottom clef? Tenor or bass? It doesn't have any help for any > verse. > > For 4 part hymns, this would be way too confusing to do stuff like that on > all 4 parts. I think w

Re: [Finale] different syllabification in different verses

2013-01-21 Thread Phil Daley
Exactly. It would be way too confusing to do that to 4 part hymns. At 1/21/2013 01:38 PM, dc wrote: >Le 21/01/2013 19:14, Phil Daley écrit : >> I don't get it at all. >> >> Where is the alto line? >> >> What it the bottom clef? Tenor or bass? It doesn't have any help for any >> verse.

Re: [Finale] different syllabification in different verses

2013-01-21 Thread Phil Daley
At 1/21/2013 12:05 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: >On Jan 21, 2013, at 5:35 AM, dc wrote: > >> Many thanks to all for the sound advice. I'm still wondering if the >> reduction is absolutely necessary or not - i.e. whether it makes things >> clearer or not. I have three verses, but never more than two

Re: [Finale] different syllabification in different verses

2013-01-21 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jan 21, 2013, at 5:35 AM, dc wrote: > Many thanks to all for the sound advice. I'm still wondering if the > reduction is absolutely necessary or not - i.e. whether it makes things > clearer or not. I have three verses, but never more than two different > configurations. I'm not quite sure ei

Re: [Finale] different syllabification in different verses

2013-01-20 Thread John Blane
Lyrics will remain full-sized if you reduce noteheads. They will change if you reduce notes. Fortunately, there is now a plugin to do that. On Jan 20, 2013, at 3:49 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: > I've dealt with this before and the lyrics get reduced along with the reduced > noteheads, plus you

Re: [Finale] different syllabification in different verses

2013-01-20 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jan 20, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: > I've dealt with this before and the lyrics get reduced along with the reduced > noteheads, plus you have to assign them to a different layer and that causes > lyric extension issues. I could try using a fixed font size for the lyrics, > bu

Re: [Finale] different syllabification in different verses

2013-01-20 Thread Christopher Smith
I've dealt with this before and the lyrics get reduced along with the reduced noteheads, plus you have to assign them to a different layer and that causes lyric extension issues. I could try using a fixed font size for the lyrics, but that starts to get touchy, especially since I can't specify f

Re: [Finale] different syllabification in different verses

2013-01-20 Thread David H. Bailey
On 1/20/2013 12:38 PM, dc wrote: > Suppose you have several verses under the same music, but with small > variants in the syllabification between verses - two notes for one > syllable in one verse but two syllables in another. > > What's the standard way of indicating this if the beaming follows th

Re: [Finale] different syllabification in different verses

2013-01-20 Thread Mark D Lew
I'm not sure if this is the exact situation Noel is describing, but if you have a situation where verse 1 has one syllable on a quarter note and verse 2 has two syllables on repeated eighth notes on the same pitch, I would NOT write it as two eighths with a dotted tie. I would write it as a qua

Re: [Finale] different syllabification in different verses

2013-01-20 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jan 20, 2013, at 9:38 AM, dc wrote: > Suppose you have several verses under the same music, but with small > variants in the syllabification between verses - two notes for one > syllable in one verse but two syllables in another. > > What's the standard way of indicating this if the beaming

Re: [Finale] different syllabification in different verses

2013-01-20 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Dennis, Regarding your question, > Suppose you have several verses under the same music, but with small > variants in the syllabification between verses - two notes for one > syllable in one verse but two syllables in another. > > What's the standard way of indicating this if the beaming follows t