Message: 4
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:36:49 -0500
From: Robert Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Finale] Hyphenating text underlay
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I should have added that my instictive preference is for dictionary
hyphenation, but I want to confirm that instinct. So far I haven't read
any disagreement.
Well, OK, my thoughts on this are that hyphenation should follow how the
music is sung, i.e. with each note beginning with a consonant, and
multi-consonants split. "pro-mise" not "prom-ise". This approach stems
from my time of singing in a contemporary music choir in which it was
drummed into us.
Of course this means there are weird hyphenations that just don't seem
right: "e-xist" or "ex-ist"? (maybe it's possible to get around it in
this case since x is really two consonants in one: ks).
I also make an exception for the "ing" suffix, which is what your
original post is about I think?
As for the statement that it may lead to words initially being
pronounced incorrectly, I don't know of too many instances in which
vocal music is sightread in performance anyway.
Altogether that was the approach I took when creating the hyphenation
dictionary on my website. Originally it was created for use with Philip
Aker's auto-hyphenation plugin for Finale, and it's by no means
finished, but maybe it may be useful for someone.
Matthew
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