Interspersed below, a couple more comments on your songbook project. Marilyn --------------- I have not made much use of the lyrics feature of finale up until now. But I am starting a songbook, and if some one wants to let me know again about some of the issues around lyrics, I would appreciate it very much.
I plan to combine all the songs into a single Finale file, unless I hear it is a really bad idea. 1. Should I create a separate "verse" for the text of each song, or should I place all the text in one "verse"? If they are separate, won't I end up fiddling with base lines a great deal? ------------ If each song has only one stanza, then you could use a single verse for all the lyrics. If there are two or more stanzas for any song, then you need additional lyric "verses." ------------ 2. What is this hyphenation bug and word extension bug I keep reading about here? ----------- This bug is really annoying. One way I've worked around it is to use spaces and my own (i.e., keyboard-entered) hyphens. If the word in the lyric is, for example, "mainly," I type main-[space] followed by ly to make sure Finale doesn't do things like eliminate the hyphen, jumble up the word so it's illegible, or whatever else. That's of course a little more work, but easier than fighting with the application. ----------------- 3. Is there some way (plugin or program) to recreate all the correct hyphenations and extensions if they get messed up? ------------------ One thing I always do as a backup is create one or two unused lyric "verses," in which I put the original text (as it would read in poetry or prose, minus hyphens and mid-word breaks) and another unused "verse" containing the text broken up into syllables with hyphens entered by myself. In older versions of Finale especially, some interesting things occasionally happened to my texts if I entered them either by the "click assignment" or "type into score" methods [partly because I was composing, not copying, so I often made changes to my text handling]. By keeping verses 1 and 2 for backup use, and copying those texts to verses 3 . . . onward, I had both backup and working copies of the lyrics. ---------------- I know that my Mass Copy plugin does not work with hyphenation and word extensions. I am working to rectify that as best as possible. If there is an easy way to repair them, that will make my life easier. -- Robert Patterson http://RobertGPatterson.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
