There is no limit! (Actually maybe the limit is several thousand.) The shipping house style and manuscript papers (templates) contain only five, but it only takes a moment to create as many more lyric lines as needed (just create new text styles and define their default positions). They can then be saved in custom house styles and manuscript papers.
Andrew On 27 May 2010 04:10, Ray Horton <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark D Lew wrote: > >> On May 26, 2010, at 9:22 AM, John Howell wrote: >> >> 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. >>> >> >> I don't understand the point of infinite verses, other than as a marketing >> gimmick. I surely agree that five is too few, but what's the current finite >> limit in Finale? Isn't it well over a hundred? It's enough that I've never >> run out, even using them liberally. >> >> The improvement for punctuation isn't tiny for me. I like that a lot. Of >> all the new lyric features announced, it's the one that would make the most >> difference to me. >> >> mdl >> > > Five is ridiculously too small a limit! Many hymns have more than five - > check an Amish hymnal sometimes! We may not want to read more than five in > one staff, on _average_, but a modern notation program has to be able to > handle more than the average. > > > "Infinite" could be useful occasionally - I have hymn files in which I > store all the various versions of a hymn's text that I have run across. Or, > when I am writing a text on a song or anthem, I may have several different > versions of the text before I am done (every time I make a change I may > store the old version). So, storing dozens of verses/stanzas has been > useful at times. > > > Raymond Horton > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
