Neither do I for final copy otherwise I wouldn't be replying to this thread in the first place, but I do use frequently use pencil for my first draughts and to get ideas down as do many others I wager, although I must admit I've never imagined elastic tape to move or write words, what's wrong with a pen or pencil?
<<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.>>
I wasn't inferring that there is any right, wrong, better or worse way. In fact I said later in my reply that click assignment was the way to go for lyrics copied in from other sources (incl. the opt-click trick which I use all the time). What I was trying to get across from all the negative remarks made about type into score was that it has its uses. Click assignment is great, but you can't alter things on the fly as you can with type into score and if you have a complex set of lyrics to get in, sometimes just typing them in is a far quicker and more accurate method.
Horses for courses. Use 'em all I say!
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
Maybe I'm being misunderstood. What I meant to say is that once a lyric has been typed in it stays on that note until altered (as I did say about going into the edit box and adding in words within the lyric already assigned). Some users seem to think that they can add a note into a bar or change a rhythm, copy across into a different part of the bar etc., and the lyrics will auto re-align to the same place as they were before. This doesn't happen, although the shift left/right can be an invaluable tool in these cases.
All said and done Finale's lyric aspect is very good and can even serve the needs of the most discerning users with a bit of tweaking. You'll never please everyone anyway, there'll always be somebody with a case of a can't-do-this-in-this scenario.
Jonathan
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