Editing lyrics in Finale Notepad
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 10:11 pm
I'm a lyricist, working with a composer who uses Finale. I just purchased Finale Notepad, so that I can make simple edits in my composer's work, and add lyrics where necessary. I've run into two problems: 1) I can add lyrics to notes that don't already have them, but when I want to change a lyric that my composer added, I can't seem to delete his syllable -- the syllable I add prints OVER his, and it looks like a jumble. How can I delete lyrics that are already there? And the other problem 2) when my composer added a lyric syllable that's held for more than one note, an underline continues from the syllable on under the following note, as it should. (The line is red, for some reason, though the rest of the lyrics are black.) When I add a lyric syllable under a note that doesn't have a syllable, but does have that line, the line doesn't go away even though the syllable appears. (This is probably related to the first problem: in essence, the lyrics in the file sent to me by composer won't disappear when I edit them, even though I can add my own lyrics ON TOP of them.) Does anyone have any ideas about this? Thank you!