At 9:18 PM 09/19/02, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: >I don't enter consecutive hyphens as much anymore either, but they get >generated in >"type into score" mode when one has [...] >[...] the original separators persist, so that an examination of the >lyrics block shows something on the order of "Hal - - -le - lu- jah".
Ah, OK, I get it now. Since I rarely use type in score, I wasn't familiar with such patterns. As I noted before, any group of consecutive separator characters is treated as a single separator, thus the redundant ones may be safely removed. Removing non-redundant separators will result in lyrics being shifted. >Syllables can persist for other reasons, too. When I go back to some of my >earliest efforts, I sometimes find "ghost" syllables in the lyrics box. >Though I >cannot be certain this is the case, I now suspect that these arise from >deleting a >note to which the syllable was assigned, entering a new note in the same >place in >the measure, and entering the new syllable with "type into score". Yes, that procedure would yield the result you describe. I believe that this sort of thing is what causes the occasional errant hyphens experienced by type-in-score users. A utility to clear out all "ghost syllables" (ie, syllables not assigned anywhere) would provide a helpful way to clean up these pesky hyphen bugs. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
