For what it's worth, the standard among American publishers, also put in writing in a brochure on notation produced by the Music Publishers' Association, is to follow dictionary hyphenation.
On one hand that's the long and short of it, but some words are hyphenated differently from one dictionary to another, and there are a few composers who are rather uncomfortable with using this traditional approach rather than breaking phonetically (i.e., fun-ny is correct although fu-nny is how it's sung). Singers may not all consciously notice, but they're subconsciously used to the traditional breaks since that's what's almost always seen. Also interesting is that American publishers follow foreign dictionaries for each foreign language's hyphenation rules, and in some cases that does break by the consonant, and Latin also has some of its own hyphenating quirks, like san-ctus. BTW, a scan-to-pdf of that MPA brochure is available at http://www.mpa.org/notation.pdf or email me your street address off-list if you want a hard copy. Daniel Dorff _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
