At 07:56 AM 3/1/03 -0800, Richard Yates wrote: >Save the Finale file as an ETF file then use a word processor to do search >and replace for the characters you want changed. Resave, then open in >Finale.
This is all very tricky for curly quotation marks, apostrophes, etc. I've never come up with a good rule to do it in general text (though lyrics, likely with a limited numer of unusual cases, might be a bit easier). For example, "Shi'ite" takes the 6-shaped curly single-quote mark, but "in the '60's" takes two 9-shaped marks. Opening quotes are usually preceded by a space, but sometimes a carriage return or tab, to that helps but is no guarantee. Typos (such as a missing space after punctuation) can cause this to fail. Closing quotes get fooled by certain punctuation, and search-and-replace will change " and ' (for minutes and seconds or inches and feet) or ` and ' (for stress marks) to curly quotes. These search-and-replace sequences have to be done carefully, and often with dictionary lookups. And, in tight layouts, there is an issue that some type fonts demand more space for curly quotes than for straight ones. Search-and-replace followed by careful re-proofing is essential (and depressing). Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
