At 10:21 AM +0100 10/4/11, Peter Taylor wrote: >I have the corrected proofs back. Only a very few changes, mainly >punctuation to comply with the approved printed text. However, there's >another question on which I'd like your collective wisdom please... > >Should a punctuation mark be after a word or at the end of the extension >line? : > >a) peace; __________ > >or > >b) peace __________ ; > >I like a), client likes b), but both of us will bow to your expert >knowledge. :) > >FinWin 2005 can only do a) as far as I can see, b) is a kludge, by inserting >the mark and a hard space at the beginning of the next word, but this >doesn't work at the end of a system - I would need to use an expression. > >Thanks
Your a) is standard practice, and lets the singer know at the beginning of the extension how the sentence is going to proceed instead of waiting, as you suggest, until the end of a melisma on the next system. That's probably why it's what Finale is set up to do. The Chicago Style Manual (which is revised every few years to stay current) is probably the best reference for something like this, which is considered cut and dried in publication style even though clients can try to be "creative" if they don't know the rules. 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
