On Jun 8, 2004, at 12:07 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
Easy enough to replicate: create a two stave, two measure score, with one part on staff one, the other on staff two. Use four half notes in each part, and assign syllables "one", "two", "three", and "four" to the notes in the top staff, and the syllables "five", "six", "seven" and "eight" to the notes in the bottom, with all notes in the same lyric space, for example verse 1.
Aha, I see the problem already. I would never put lyrics for two different voices in the same lyric space. The whole point of having separate lyric spaces is so that when you do something like Shift Lyrics or Adjust Baseline it affects the one group only, and doesn't carry over to the others.
I assumed that Type in Score knew enough to put them into separate lyric spaces for you, but trying your example, I see that it doesn't.
I guess I view this as user error more than program error. Regardless of whether you're using Type-in-Score or Edit-Lyrics, you ought to know better than to put lyrics in the same space when they ought to be separate. That's the whole point of having the separate spaces; otherwise they may as well not even exist.
Then again, the fact that you have to know this is an example of Finale not being as user-friendly as it might. I suppose it's more dangerous in Type-in-Score, which makes more pretense at being idiot-proof.
mdl
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