I actually need it for English, which means there can be consonants in the elision as well. Example: "care-fully" where there is an elision-slur centered under the two ells (and no space between them). It seems like the ideal would be single character that looks like the elision and has zero width (centered). My font editing days may be behind me, but there was a time when I could have made one. (Though it may have required kerning against every possible combo. I don't remember it well enough now.)
Anyway, it's ridiculous Finale can't do it natively. On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 11:10 AM Fiskum, Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Robert, > > I deal with these types of elisions everyday. Back in the day we used to > use an expression that was attached to a note. It worked well until I > finally took the time to create fonts with editor specific placements for > the many combinations of Spanish hymnal texts. I would share the font but > it was created for a specific publisher. > > In the link below is the "key" I created to work with the font. Hopefully > this can help you figure out a system that may work for you, if you decide > to create a font - OR - I've included the elision shape expression library > I used in the earlier versions of Finale, that I still sometimes use. > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/grk6qjpymzrrszo/AAAABpN1qzYMJUQDT7h1bOCua?dl=0 > > Hope this is helpful. > > Cheers! > Steve Fiskum > > ________________________________________ > From: Finale <[email protected]> on behalf of Robert Patterson < > [email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2019 8:37 AM > To: finale > Subject: [Finale] Elision Slurs in lyrics > > Does anyone know a more professional approach to elisions than the way > suggested in the Finale manual? The manual proposes the character shift-I > from the Engraver Font Set. The big problem with that is that it leaves a > gap between the two syllables. This is visually the opposite of what we > want with an elision. In hymn books you often encounter two syllables > eilided with no gap and a slur connecting them underneath. The official > Finale technique, in my opinion (at least for English), is worse than just > omitting elision slurs. > > I suppose I could use a shape expression, but that certainly would be > tedious. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
