I want to enter spoken text (I want no melody) instead of lyrics in my music manuscript but I don't know how to widen the individual measures of the song. Evidently there are too many words and I can't fit them all in the designated measures.
Can someone please explain how to increase the width of those measures?
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Warren Barnett
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Documents - Document Options - Music spacing
There are choices for minimum and maximim measure width. However they would all be the same width.
If you want the measures to expand and contract with the text, enter a fake melody and then add your lyrics, then hide the notes.
There are choices for minimum and maximim measure width. However they would all be the same width.
If you want the measures to expand and contract with the text, enter a fake melody and then add your lyrics, then hide the notes.
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Peter Thomsen
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Here's an idea:
Fill the measure with only one note (a whole note in 4/4, a dotted half note in 3/4, a half note in 2/4 - you get the idea).
Enter the spoken text as a "one word lyric", by separating the words with a "hard" space character instead of the standard "soft" space character.
In that way Finale will see it as one long word.
The "hard" space character is in character slot #160 in Windows text fonts.
In Mac text fonts it's in character slot #202.
Attach this "one word lyric" to the note that fills the measure.
Make the "one word lyric" Left-aligned with the note (not centered!).
You can hide the note, since it's only used as attachment point for the lyric.
Include "Lyrics" in the music spacing (Document Options - Music Spacing), apply music spacing, and Update Layout.
Fill the measure with only one note (a whole note in 4/4, a dotted half note in 3/4, a half note in 2/4 - you get the idea).
Enter the spoken text as a "one word lyric", by separating the words with a "hard" space character instead of the standard "soft" space character.
In that way Finale will see it as one long word.
The "hard" space character is in character slot #160 in Windows text fonts.
In Mac text fonts it's in character slot #202.
Attach this "one word lyric" to the note that fills the measure.
Make the "one word lyric" Left-aligned with the note (not centered!).
You can hide the note, since it's only used as attachment point for the lyric.
Include "Lyrics" in the music spacing (Document Options - Music Spacing), apply music spacing, and Update Layout.
Mac OS X 12.6.9 (Monterey), Finale user since 1996
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lauralynnwalsh
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The way I have done this is to put rests in for the pattern of the words. For instance: "I went to the store" might be written as quarter-rest, quarter-rest, eighth-rest, eighth-rest, half-rest. Then you can use the lyric tool and just add words to the rests.
(2012.r3 Mac - Songwriter)
(2012.r3 Mac - Songwriter)
