Wow, does that work like a charm, or what? I started using underscores as elisions so long ago that I never bothered to re-read the manual to see if there was a better way. Guess I should go over the manual again. (Sure wish they had given me a hard copy :-) ...
Many, many thanks, Aaron. At 11:02 PM 3/14/2004 -0500, Aaron Sherber wrote: >At 12:35 PM 3/14/2004, Bruce K H Kau wrote: > >(2) Any advice on other > >workarounds, and how would I put an elision character back into my text? I > >would actually prefer the character that looks something like a tie between > >notes, but have found the underscore to be satisfactory. > >Take a look in the manual under "Elisions". Wherever you want an elision, >type a capital I, and then go back and change all of these capital I >characters (In Edit Lyrics) to EngraverFontSet. > >Or, since that can be a real pain, here's a trick I use in lots of >different situations. Instead of a capital I for elisions, type any >character that you know won't appear anywhere in your lyrics, like %. When >you're done entering all of your lyrics, you can use the Text Search and >Replace plugin to find all occurrences of % in your lyrics and replace them >with a capital I in EngraverFontSet, all in one go. That's much easier than >manually selecting each I and changing the font. > >Aaron. > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > --------------------------------- Bruce K. H. Kau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kane'ohe, Hawai'i, USA "Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning ..." _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
