Hi all, I'm using finmac2k2 and I'm trying to deal with the space eating way Finale spaces a lyric or chord attached to the first of two tied notes. Does anyone know of some setting I'm missing or a non-labor intensive workaround for this? I've known about and worked my way through the chord situation before but hadn't until today noticed virtually the same problem for lyrics.
I'm working on an arrangement of a tune with a lot of 16th note pushes in the melody. If a lyric lands on the first of two notes that are tied together it's centered on that first note, and the second note is moved to the right to avoid the lyric. Am I wrong in saying that the movement of the second note is unnecessary all of the time? Left align starts to help with chords but it really falls short of doing the job, and we don't even have that when dealing with lyrics. If I haven't explained the problem clearly enough, try this. [q = quarter note], [e = eighth note], [s = sixteenth note] and [‹‹ = a tie] enter into Finale the following: ____________ beats ______________ |1 2 3 4 e s s‹‹s e s‹‹s e s‹‹q see the crys-tal rain-drops fall and apply music spacing with the lyrics included. There is too much space left between the tied notes by the lyric spacing, and in a piece with a lot of these types of measures the spacing overall is, well, too spacious. If the above was too muddled by either my description or the email server, let me know and I'll send you a clip file that demonstrates the problem. Thanks, Don Hart _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
