christopher.sm...@videotron.ca wrote: << To Peter, most likely your client misunderstands the use of word extensions. They should only be used for non-hyphenated syllables under more than one notehead. You should correct that in your work for him.
<< But if you HAD to, just click "Adjust Word Extensions" (this will be in a different place in 2011 than in previous versions) and handles will appear. Drag the handle to change the length. Hyphenated syllables will not have word extension handles, but you can add a Smart line manually. I don't recommend either solution, as it is incorrect notation and will just generate useless questions in rehearsal. >> I don't agree with that. I understand that the standard is to only use a word extension when a syllable continues to another note, but in a situation where one voice has a long whole note while others are doing something else, I think the irregular courtesy word extension does no harm and could be helpful. If a client asks for such a thing, I don't think it's an unreasonable request, I don't think it will cause any confusion in rehearsal, and I wouldn't tell him it's "incorrect notation". But anyway, I don't think this is actually what Peter is asking for. His real issue is that he's putting multiple syllables under one long note. When you do this, Finale refuses to allow a space, hyphen or underscore among them, because its UI treats that as a code to jump to the next note. For the space you can substitute a hard space. For the hyphen you can supposedly substitute a hard hyphen, though in many fonts it will look wrong. For an underscore you're out of luck. What I would do here is to enter the whole intoned bit as a text box instead of a lyric. (You may want to initially enter it as a lyric to help with getting the font size and baseline properly aligned, but then delete the lyric once you have the text box in place.) mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
