On Oct 2, 2005, at 6:56 AM, dc wrote:
I seem to recall that you also omit the hyphen between two syllables when you don't have room for it. Don't singers ever object to this? I always thought this was one of the rare rules that shouldn't allow for any exceptions.
If there's no room for a hyphen, you can set two syllables within a single word flush together. That's the standard, and it makes perfect sense to me. Recordare's free sample song <http://store.recordare.com/schmdich01.html> has an example of that: "schönen" fits more comfortably set solid, and there's no loss of readability for omitting the hyphen there. From your post, I honestly can't tell what you're saying singers might object to -- omitting the hyphen, or not omitting it.
One of the difficulties with Finale is when two syllables are near enough that the hyphen doesn't fit, but still not near enough to be flush. There's actually two problems there. One is that Finale's idea of when a hyphen fits isn't quite perfect so it will sometimes try to stick it in there even if there isn't room. The more time-consuming problem is that when you do want two syllables flush, there's no easy way to get the spacing just right. You just have to nudge and eyeball till it looks right. One trick I would often resort to is to create a text expression of the entire word at the same size as the lyric. Then, at a suitably large zoom, use that as a guide to get the real lyric syllables properly aligned.
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