It's not completely unheard of to want a hyphen in the middle of a syllable in standard music with normal fonts. I remember that happening for me in a French text once.
There may be some specialty fonts around with various lines in them that could pass for hyphens. For instance I used the arrows from a font containing geographical symbols until Shape Designer/Smart Shapes were upgraded. To buy Fontographer for the creation and/or adaption of a font for the purpose may or may not be an option for you, but I forgot to mention that if all you need is a single slot font, one the Adobe manuals (Cookbook??) gives an example of how to do this. A kludge could be to put a non-breaking space in the required position and then placing a "hyphen-as-shape" expression over top. However, I think what everyone should be pressing for is for Finale to be a full Unicode capable application. Then one could use a hyphen look-a-like character from another font--adjusting baseline, font size, etc. For instance take a peek at slot 207B in Futura Medium in the Character Palette (Superscripts and Subscripts category) and another choice in the Small Form Variants category.
Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca
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