On Thu, 19 September 2002, "Dennis W. Manasco" wrote: > A database that allows itself to be > irretrievably corrupted through reasonable user actions is a pretty > fragile database.
I agree with this statement, but I do not agree that Finale's lyrics implementation conforms to it. It is true that many users have this perception of Finale's lyrics implementation, but the perceptions stems from a failure to understand (and master) that implementation. I've yet (in recent times) to see a situation where clearing and re-assigning did not clear up problems, which means it isn't "irretrievably" corrupted. Furthermore, with understanding and forethought, you'll never run into the problem in the first place. Someone said that the implementation is geeky. It *is* geeky, but (as Mark Lew eloquently stated) it is very powerful. Sometimes geeky is okay, even if it requires a little more thought than we'd like. The reason I say we must accept it is that the implementation is fundamental. Lyrics by definition (inside Finale) are assignments from sylabbicized text. There is no option of an "option". The other option would be text expressions, or else to glom on some new kind of lyric that is essentially a text expression. -- Robert Patterson http://RobertGPatterson.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
