At 5:27 PM -0400 10/29/07, dhbailey wrote:
Kurt Gnos wrote:
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.
I must admit that I need a "Filters for Dummies," since I haven't
really figured them out yet. But yes, there is an easier way. (If
you are on Sib 5, and I guess you are, this may be different. I'm
still on Sib 4, and everything goes by system and page and there's no
Galley View.)
Select the first syllable in a line of lyrics. Then type Apple-Shift
+ A and it selects all the lyrics on that system. Then just use the
up and down arrows to move them. Different from both Finale and
Mosaic, but easy once you get the hang of it. You can use the same
approach to copy that line of lyrics to another voice part: select
the line of lyrics, Copy, select the first note of the next voice
part, Paste.
This is on Mac, of course, but usually the Windows commands are
virtually the same.
What's really nice (compared with Mosaic) is that when you hit the
space bar it moves to the next actual note, and you don't have to
space through all the rests. I find the lyrics implementation as
close to intuitive as anything in the program.
John
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John R. Howell
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240
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http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
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