USE TYPE INTO SCORE
Why not? It is the most natural way to input lyrics, let's face it, if you were using pen and pencil isn't that exactly the way you would go about it?
Well, actually Click Into Score is more the way I conceive it in my head, kind of like lifting a line of text up off the notebook like a piece of elastic tape, and laying it down on the music page, having it line up with the notes, one after another. So I guess natural is in the hand of the writer? Finale's ability to copy and paste material and make changes easily is the reason I DON'T use pen and paper for final copy any more.
There is one important difference between Type Into Score and Click Assignment; Click Assignment jumps over tied notes and rests while Type Into Score doesn't. I wouldn't necessarily change that behaviour, as it is conceivable that someone might like to attach a lyric to the second of two tied notes, or to a rest, and they should have a way to do it (like figured bass symbols). But Click Into Score saves me a lot of keystrokes when dealing with complex rhythms and syncopations, plus I can import lyrics from another source, which saves TONS of time. I recently copied out twelve songs for a musical theatre production, copying lyrics from the script text file, and it would have taken easily twice as long if I re-typed the lyrics.
Returning for edits and spelling corrections is pretty simple to understand and why make mistakes in the first place, would you do that with a pen? If I don't know the word or the break, I go and look it up in the dictionary. That way I learn and remember far more than letting a spell checker do it for me!
The main thing to understand is that the words and syllables are attached to the notes,
They aren't really ATTACHED, and that's the problem. It's more of a pointer, as someone explained, kind of like "syllable number fifteen goes HERE" regardless of what the syllable IS. Once you understand that, things go smoothly. I think that's the main problem; newbies don't understand how it works. If it were attached, never to come unstuck, that would be a different behaviour.
christopher
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