On 7 Jun 2004 at 1:41, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > Harold wrote: > > > 1) Enter all the lyrics for the highest part before moving to lower > > parts. This assures that the order of entries will show up in the > > Edit box in the right order. > > It is my experience, going back to WINFIN 2k, that it is more > important to enter the first syllable for each staff in the order in > which you want the lyrics for that staff to appear in the dialog box. > If the work starts with a lengthy solo part in the tenor, for example, > you might want the tenor part first, so type the first tenor syllable > before you type the first syllable of any other staff line. > > However, the custom I have developed is that the very first thing I do > with lyrics is go to the "edit lyric" dialog box, type a label and > first few words of each line, in the form "[Sopr.] First So-pran-o > syl-la-bles [Alto] First Al-to syl-la-bles ..." in the order in which > I choose to have the lyrics appear in the dialog box. I then use > click assignment to skip the tags, and assign just the first few > syllables of each staff to the proper note, before switching to type > into score as Harold describes. For me, the advantage of this is that > when I find an error which has escaped proofreading early on, and > need to locate the error in the lyric dialogs, the tags make it much > easier to be assured I am looking in the right place.
Er, I don't understand. What kind of repertory are you entering? 15th- century poly-textual motets? The music I enter has the same text in all the parts, so why would I want to type it in multiple times? It's the same text. Yes, there are small variations of punctuation and capitalization, but all derive from a single text, and the variants can be added as needed (after the canonical text), and click-assigned as needed. Why would you *need* to have separate text for the different parts? How different could they be? -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
