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
Here's another message from an AOL address that I couldn't reply to in Mail (mac OSX)! I wish they would fix that!
I suppose you are using an underscore because an n-dash or an m-dash are too long? I understand in that case. There should be a way to have a non-breaking hyphen that IS the same character.
Christopher
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