On 13.07.2002 11:54 Uhr, Mark D. Lew wrote > If a major rethink of the spacing algorithm is in order, it ought to > include having lyrics calculate collisions only with other lyrics. This > would solve a lot of problems. For starters, it could eliminate the problem > whereby the first note of a melisma gets a lot of space and the others > don't. It also would get rid of those unnecessary gaps where Finale thinks > a long syllable is "colliding" with, say, an accident on the following > note, even though there is plenty of room for the lyric to be under the > accidental, "overlapping" with it in a horizontal sense but being far away > vertically.
I don't deal very much with lyrics, but doesn't TGTools already deal with this? I think it is called "New Spacing" Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale