On Mar 12, 2005, at 8:33 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
Yes, apparently the underscore (along with the space and hyphen) is a reserved character telling Finale to move to the next syllable.
If so, this must be something new. There's never been any problem with the underscore character up through Fin 2k2. Perhaps it has to do with the new "smart" word extensions?
Has anyone confirmed whether it's a problem with the actual character, or just the keystroke in type-in-score mode?
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.
Opt-hyphen is an en-dash. Em-dash is shift-opt-hyphen.
-- On Mar 12, 2005, at 9:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
It sounds to me like an unadjusted em-dash is exactly what you want, and the dragged underscore was a kludge to achieve the same effect.
If the 2k4 update of Finale really has reserved the underscore character so that it's no longer available for lyrics, I agree that that's really bad. I rarely need the underscore, but I really hate that the hyphen character is reserved. It's a real pain in French, where you sometimes need a hyphen within a syllable.
All characters should be available for lyrics. It's idiotic that some of them will be reserved to serve a command function. If they're going to interpret data as code they should at least have escape characters available.
mdl
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