David, thanks, that did it.
Is there a way to select an entire staff except highlighting the first measure, go to the last page and shift-clicking the last measure? I guess there is... But there is no clicking to the left of the staff as in Finale, so I didn't find out...;-) Kurt > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im > Auftrag von dhbailey > Gesendet: Montag, 29. Oktober 2007 22:27 > An: finale@shsu.edu > Betreff: Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 - Second impressions > > Kurt Gnos wrote: > > Hi, > > > > today I gave Sibelius my second try. > > > > I entered and arranged a simple melody (S/A in canon) and T/B > accompaniment, > > to check out copying, pasting, lyrics and so on. > > > > Many things work quite differently than in Finale, but I got most > things > > working. > > > > I could enter notes, copy and paste things, add lyrics. Sibelius > crashed > > once (something about a C-Library), but for the rest of the time > worked > > quite fine. > > > > Playback: I had to restart two times because one of my SATB voices > would not > > play back. Restarting fixed it. > > > > I now have entered the music and lyrics. I wanted to shift the lyrics > a > > little lower because they are too near to the staff symstem. I've > checked > > all the menus and fiddled around for half an hour but I could not > find a way > > to adjust the verse 1 baseline. I am quite certain there must be a > way to do > > it, but where? I can adjust one syllable no problem, but the whole > lyrics > > line? > > highlight the entire staff, then under Edit menu select FILTER and then > select Lyrics. Then only the lyrics are selected and using up or down > arrow (or clicking and dragging) will move all the lyrics. > > > [snip] > > > -- > David H. Bailey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale