In a message dated 3/12/2005 10:34:48 AM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes,
apparently the underscore (along with the space and hyphen) is a
reserved
character telling Finale to move to the next syllable. You
would have to
find a similar character, mapped to a different keystroke
in the font, to
force the underscore to appear by itself. I don't know
what font you are
using, so I couldn't venture a guess. At the worst,
you could change font
to one that HAD the character, just for one
syllable.
Or, if the
underscore is by itself on the beat, you could enter an
m-dash (on Mac
it's opt hyphen, I don't know the alt number on PC) and
drag it down
manually so that it is in the correct position.
If you don't mind me
asking, what are you trying to do here? Pardon the
possibly insulting
question, but if you are trying to create a word
extension, Finale has
those built-in. If you are trying to put in an
elision (two syllables from
different words sung on the same note)
there is an elision character (like
a curved underscore) in a
commonly-available font mapped to a diffferent
character. I have
misplaced my note about it, as it has been a couple of
years since I
had to do this, but Mark D. Lew here on the list told me
about it;
perhaps he will chime
in.
Christopher
Thank you, Christopher, for your help. I do not feel insulted by your
question. I am aware of the word extension and elision. I input music for a
church hymnal. Their standard practice is to use an underscore (and move it up)
when there are two notes and only one syllable/word in a stanza while the other
stanza/stanzas will have two words or syllables on the two notes. I use Ariel
font for the lyrics. It is really bad that Finale does not have this option
as it did in all other versions.
Sandra
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