At 9:08 AM -0400 9/18/02, David W. Fenton wrote: >On 17 Sep 2002 at 19:34, Thomas Schaller wrote: >> first of all - about the problem of having screwed up your original lyrics: >> I'm afraid that those lyrics are no good anymore - depending on how much you >> changed in the copied section you might be able to re-change everything, but >> it most likely is way too time-consuming and the outcome is questionable at >> best - sorry. > >I assume you mean only the lyrics for the staff that I'd edited. > >I've deleted and re-entered, and the incorrect hyphens are still >there. > >In any event, this is unacceptable -- it means data in the database >has been corrupted by a legal editing operation in a fashion that is >not reversable. That means the database engine is not reliable.
Yes, we knew that already. It used to be WAY worse, believe me. The question is, how to avoid running into the problem. The endless hyphen comes most likely from a first syllable that has been separated from its second. If you find that syllable, then you can "un-assign" it, that is, undo its assignment to that note without deleting it from the "list" of lyrics. You go to Adjust Lyrics, click on the note with the errant syllable, then select the handle for the lyric (not the note, you have two handles, select the bottom one!) and press Delete. If you delete the syllable in any other way except this (or Mass Mover>Clear Items>Lyrics) then you will lose the syllable in the Edit Lyrics window. To avoid this problem in the future, never delete or copy a portion of music that splits a hyphenated word. It's a pain, I know, but the consequences are much worse than the infraction. To save your work, I suggest the Mass Mover Clear Items to undo all lyric assignments. Then go to the Edit Lyrics window and restore the order of words in the first verse the way you like it. Then, by using Copy and Paste, create a second verse inside the same edit window. Click-assign this new copy to the second verse, which you will be able to change as you like without affecting the first verse. (You know about opt-click, right? This assigns ALL the syllables in the edit window to the notes automatically, from the first note you click until it encounters an empty measure or runs out of lyrics. Very cool. You can shift right or left using Shift Lyrics if a passage gets mis-aligned.) > >I don't see the issue at all. Everything that is copied should create >the appropriate new records in the database, rather than creating new >records for some things and links to existing records for others. What it used to do when copying music with lyrics is create a new verse, which meant that in every succeeding verse that you copied the lyrics got lower and lower below the music. I wish it would simply copy the lyrics automatically in the SAME verse, instead of mirroring, as you said. You are right, it IS counter-intuitive. You should bug Coda about it, stressing the fact that you are far from being a newbie yet you had problems using it, and that this is the kind of thing that keeps away casual users. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
