I'd never noticed that the NBA did this, but you're right, I just checked. I also checked my four reference books, and all agree that this is wrong. I find it very weird to have a ; or a , after a word extension, but I'd be interested in hearing other opinions.
Doesn't seem weird at all to me. I think of punctuation after the word extension to be just as respectable a style as punctuation before. One of my clients routinely does it that way in her handwritten manuscripts, and several old publishers do as well.
When I first started engraving, I had a mild preference toward punctuation after the line, but since there was no easy way to do it in Finale, I switched, and now I'm used to seeing it Finale's way.
I'm intrigued by the comment that TG Tools can do this. Is there anyone out there who uses that feature regularly? How well has it worked for you?
Following your logic, the final consonant of should also come after the extension - since the extension is necessarily sung on a vowel.
Huh?? I don't see how this has anything to do with punctuation.
mdl
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