Most ingenious indeed! I like it! I have hundreds of lyric symbols, and at a rate of six per grace note I see a great advantage in Noel's method. Further, I don't have to identify each grace note character in the lyrics edit box (one character per note, I'd have to count, I think). With only two primary symbols (open and closed hole) I could use copy & paste there to some effect, but I still think it'd be much more difficult and prone to error. Thanks, Noel.
John On 5/3/05 9:03 PM, "John Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4 May 2005, at 01:49, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > >> John Roberts wrote: >> >> >>> Unlike with percentage tool-reduced notes, lyrics to not shrink >>> with grace notes, >>> even with fixed size unchecked. Articulations do, expressions do, >>> but lyrics >>> don't. (At least not in the file I'm working on). So I thought I'd >>> sound out >>> the wisdom of the list. >>> >>> >> OK, I think this is how I'd do it: go to options > document >> settings > notation options, make a note of the figure in the >> "grace note" box, and then change the value to 100. Now, notate >> your grace note, use the re-size tool to change the size to the >> value you noted in the notation option box for the grace note, and >> then apply the key to make the note you just entered and resized a >> grace. >> If I've reasoned it out correctly, what this should do, is give you >> a regular note, which you manually resize, in the process resizing >> the lyric and everything else associated with the note, and then >> making it the reduces size note a grace note of 100 percent size, >> which will give it all the other characteristics (such as not >> adding a fraction of a beat) of a grace note. > > That's most ingenious, but by my calculation very slightly more > labour intensive than Christopher Smith's more prosaic suggestion of > resizing the syllable in Edit Lyrics. > > John > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
