now I understand why it goes wrong;-) But wouldn't it be nice if finale also copied the text in Edit Lyrics, or at least we had an option for Finale to behave like that?
I do a lot of arrangements right now, and often I first make a "original" arrangement by listening and writing down the original piece of music, and then arrange it for choir or band. And then a lot of copying and pasting is being used, and always having to delete the lyrics first is quite stopping the work flow...:-(
Imagine Microsoft word behaving the same way:-)))) ...poor Bill!
cheers
Kurt
At 10:17 29.09.2003 -0700, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 09:29 AM, Kurt Gnos wrote:
I have a song and enter some lyrics. Now I copy something and change the lyrics of the copied part --> now the "old" part, where I copied the lyrics from, will change, too. Removing the lyrics of the new part using mass mover - remove only - items - lyrics works MOST of the time. Has anyone found a way to stop this erratic behaviour?
If you copy a section, both the original and the copy will then be pointing to the same location in the "Edit Lyrics" dialog box. Thus, changing the word in the copy changes that location in the underlying lyrics. By extension, then, this will change the word in the original. Usually I have found that it is best to insert all of the notes first, enter the lyrics into the Edit Lyrics box, and then click-assign them all to land where they belong.
If you're composing into Finale (and are coming up with notes and lyrics concurrently), it might work to just kludge your way through it and then delete all the lyrics and re-enter them cleanly as described above.
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