> From what I can see, the new lyric "features" are more like playing > catchup with Sibelius, although I can't make a side-by-side > comparison. Infinite verses might better than Sibelius' limit of 5, > for people doing hymn books. And the automatic melisma slurs MIGHT > come in handy, if they can be turned off. But Sibelius can already > switch fonts and sizes almost as easily. And ignoring punctuation > and quotation marks might be a really tiny improvement, but handling > verse numbers would be an even better one.
Sibelius doesn't actually have a limit of 5 verses. Sibelius treats lyrics (and many elements) as text styles. What Sibelius does have is a default of 5 defined lyric text styles. You can define, quite easily, extra lyric styles. In addition to the 5 lyrics styles, there are also lyric chorus and a lyrics above the staff style available, either of which can be adjusted to be a sixth or seventh verse. I do a lot with hymns and find Sibelius to be a tad better than Finale, but I'm not thrilled with the alignment of verse numbers and lyrics at the beginning of a system in either program. Given the way the current melisma plug-in works in Finale and Sibelius, I sometimes find that doing it manually is more reliable. James Gilbert www.JamesGilbertMusic.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
