At 5:32 PM +0100 9/28/11, Peter Taylor wrote: >Just an update for those who were kind enough to help. I took the proofs to >show the composer today and when I showed her the bar in question she said, >"Oh, you mean THAT bar. Those lines are to indicate where words have been >missed out. The priest sings a long sentence here, and there's no need to >print all the words, just a few at the end as a cue for the congregation to >know when to join in." > >So some of you were wise to advise checking with her. We settled on using >one dotted line, which I'm going to add with the smartshape tool. Unless >you have a better suggestion of course! :)
Well, the conventional way to indicate that is an ellipsis--3 dots separated from the syllables on either side by a space. On Macs it can be typed with Option (Alt) + semicolon, like as one "word." John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music School of Performing Arts & Cinema College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences 290 College Ave., Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[email protected]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "Machen Sie es, wie Sie wollen, machen Sie es nur schön." (Do it as you like, just make it beautiful!) --Johannes Brahms _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
