On 16-Oct-07, at 8:51 AM, themark wrote:
In fact in this period I'm doing a lot of vocal (choral) music, so this is a real good advice. One thing about that: I have a four staves choral piece, in one of these I wrote the melody with many 16 notes, each with a syllable, in the other staves I wrote accompaniment (all quarter notes). The auto spacing makes the 16ths too close and the syllables "collide". Do I have to adjust them manually in speedy entry?
If you turn on lyrics as something to avoid in music spacing, they should not collide unless you are jamming them closer together by forcing more measures onto a line. What WILL happen is that you may end up with way too much space if you ever have a long syllable on a short rhythmic value, like "through" on a sixteenth.
There are problems inherent in this seemingly easy method, as the spacing never seems right when this is turned on OR off.
Mark D. Lew suggested taking the lyrics to a size that was two points smaller, select all in the Mass Edit and hitting 4 to respace, then changing the lyrics back to the larger size WITHOUT respacing. This reduces the effect that lyrics have on music spacing, but may cause some collisions that you can nudge around manually. There are always going to be some notes or syllables that need moving manually when lyrics are in the picture.
The other boring thing is about elisions that occur so often in Italian lyrics. It was so easy to use the underscore key, now it takes three steps to do what took an only hit on the keyboard....
Hmm, what method did you use before? I always end up doing a search and replace with the elision character, even in the early versions.
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