I've dealt with this before and the lyrics get reduced along with the reduced noteheads, plus you have to assign them to a different layer and that causes lyric extension issues. I could try using a fixed font size for the lyrics, but that starts to get touchy, especially since I can't specify fractional point sizes.
The method that I use (convoluted it may be) is this Enter ALL the required subdivisions in Layer 1 and assign lyrics to ONLY layer 1. Jump over unneeded subdivisions as required in the verse you are in. Wherever there are FEWER subdivisions needed, enter them in Layer 3 and hide the Layer 1 notes using O in Speedy. This will NOT hide the lyrics! Just for show, enter the missing subdivided notes in Layer 2 and resize them. Since there are no lyrics assigned to Layer 2, they will not have resized lyrics. Christopher On Sun Jan 20, at SundayJan 20 4:27 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the exact situation Noel is describing, but if you > have a situation where verse 1 has one syllable on a quarter note and verse 2 > has two syllables on repeated eighth notes on the same pitch, I would NOT > write it as two eighths with a dotted tie. I would write it as a quarter > note upstem and then in a second voice have the two eighth notes downstem and > reduced. (Or if it's two syllables in the first verse and one syllable in > the second, then the eighth notes are upstem and full size while the quarter > note is downstem reduced.) > > I wouldn't say the dotted tie version is "wrong", but it's not how I would do > it. > > mdl > > On Jan 20, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > >> Dennis, >> >> Regarding your question, >>> Suppose you have several verses under the same music, but with small >>> variants in the syllabification between verses - two notes for one >>> syllable in one verse but two syllables in another. >>> >>> What's the standard way of indicating this if the beaming follows the >>> syllabification? Two stems, one with flags, the other with a beam? Or? >> >> I'm not prepared to call it "standard", but my customary method of >> dealing with the situation you describe is to prepare the notation for >> the greatest number of syllables, and use a dotted slur (or more rarely >> a dotted tie) to indicate the notes that are sung together on a single >> syllable in some instances. I have seen others use a notation such as s. >> 3 (for stanza 3) to indicate to which stanzas the multiple notes apply, >> but I don't personally use this device. >> >> ns >> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Dennis >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
