Mark D Lew wrote:
If Edit Lyrics were to behave like Type-in-Score, as you seem to be suggesting it might, the syllables would all be reassigned so that they remain in the same place on the page, but that is exactly what the user does NOT want in this case.
I do tend to use type into score more than edit lyrics, but partly this is because about half or so of what I enter has melismatic passages which gums up the automatic assignment mechanism, and partly because I tend to omit too many hyphens, or type an equals sign instead, and type into score lets me find these typographical errors more quickly. However, when it is more appropriate for my purpose, I can and do easily use edit lyrics / click assign as necessary, when it is useful for exploiting design features of that subsystem. Further, it doesn't bother me that the two systems work differently (though I consider it a design flaw that when syllable counts are changed in the edit lyrics box, syllables shift from the current system to the next one, or from the next system to the current one, depending upon whether the syllable count is increased or decreased; I would like to see the guard system that protects against this in the shift lyrics system implemented in the edit lyrics box, but this has become merely and irritation for me these days). What I object to is the fact that the information about how these sytems work is not available for the benefit of people who are today having the lyrics problems I had several years ago.
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