Christopher Smith wrote:
On Jun 18, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Jacki Barineau wrote:
Hi - I'm working on a song and even though I've chosen for it not to let
lyrics collide, they are doing so! Instead of manually having to
space out
every single spot this is happening, is there some automatic way of doing
this?!
Thanks!
Jacki
If you have locked the systems (in Mass Edit, little non-printing
padlocks show up in the right-hand margin) then Finale is prevented from
re-flowing crowded measures to the next system. Select All and find
Unlock Systems in the Mass Edit menu (on Mac the command for this is
command-U; I don't know the PC keystroke) then do what Hal suggested and
Update Layout for it all to take effect.
In reality, though, the algorithm for spacing when lyrics are taken into
account is badly designed. You may have to make quite a lot of manual
adjustments in any case, no matter how you end up spacing automatically.
Having a long syllable like "through" on a short rhythmic value messes
the entire measure up. Turning OFF lyric collisions, respacing just that
measure with Mass Edit 4, then manually adjusting (including resizing
the measure) is the only way I know of to work it out. TG Tools has some
additional help, but I don't imagine you have that.
In Finale's defense (only partial because I admit the lyrics spacing can
leave things still to close together) if one has locked a certain number
of measures on a single system, sometimes there is no way for the
program to space the music without lyrics colliding.
--
David H. Bailey
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