Mark D Lew responded to my comment,:
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.
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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. …<snip>...
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.
This is really not a type into score issue, since TIS has no intelligence; it must puts the syllables where the user types them. Also, my guess is that even using different lyric spaces, if you have a situation where you shift a syllable right from the last note on a staff, it will because you have changed the syllable count while editing in the edit lyrics dialog box, the syllable will be shifted to the first note of the next staff. Unless the user recognizes how this is happened, correction will be difficult, as shift lyrics will not shift the syllable back.
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