Thank you. Updating smart hyphens fixed it, but why are they called "smart" got me!
At 8:39 -0500 10/09/11, Robert Patterson wrote: >The first thing to try is Update Smart Word Extensions and Hyphens (in the >Utilities menu). This usually solves the problem. However, be aware that >Finale (or at least Fin08, which is what I use) has a bug that the hyphens >and word extensions only appear correctly on one linked part at a time. So >you have to re-run Update Smart Word Extensions and Hyphens each time you >print a part. > >On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Michael L Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sep 10, 2011, at 7:35 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: >> >> > This is Finale 2011 for Mac. All hyphens have vanished from the lyrics on >> my score and soprano part. They are still there, in the lyrics window, but >> not in the music, where spaces were substituted for them. They don't print >> either. What is that? It is amazing how many hours I have spent on Finale >> trying to figure out what is going on. Things just don't behave as expected. >> Trying to synchronize expression and repeat texts between score and parts is >> so time consuming that I just print parts without them and add them by >> pencil later. That's a lot faster. Has this happen with anyone before, I >> mean the vanishing hyphens? Thanks. >> >> Hi Haroldo -- >> >> This sort of thing has happened to me before, though I don't remember if it >> was all hyphens or just specific ones. Usually when it happens to me it's >> an issue with the "minimum space" setting for Smart Hyphens in the Lyrics >> preferences. The default, I think, is 144 (I work in EVPUs), but if I set >> it to a very small number, the missing hyphens reappear. >> >> Hope this helps! >> >> -- Mike >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
