[Finale] Hard spaces not appearing

[Jonathan Smith]

Jonathan wrote: Has anyone any clues as to why hard spaces (alt-spacebar) placed in lyrics are showing on screen but don't appear in print or in preview or pdfs. Is this a: Font problem; Adobe PostScript Type 1, or an OS; Mac10.4.2, or Finale; 2005 & 2006? prompting Bernard to respond: I think the "hardspaces" are to be inserted by Alt+160 (on the numeric keypad). That's explained in the manual under "melismas". I don't get anything when I type alt-spacebar (in Finale/Win). Bernard is correct.  He will not get anythiong with alt-spacebar, as this is a MAC OS issue, and Bernard is on a WIN box.  As to Jonathon's problem, is this a "screen font" / "printer font" issue, where the hard-space may be in the screen font, but not the printer font? ns Sorry if I didn't make it clear I was on a mac? I have used this key combo for hard spaces in Finale since 1994 and now, all of a sudden it doesn't work. Progress I suppose? Anyway, Eric has a good work around (using Times font) but this isn't very comforting for all my old files containing hard spaces in another font. I may be able to knock up an applescript that converts all lyric fonts over to open type but I have gigabytes of finale files containing thses fonts :-( I don't think the screen font/printer font thing is an issue here as it has worked fine in previous OS versions and all with the same printer that I've used for many years now. thanks, Jonathan

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