With Mass Edit I can clear all lyrics from the selected passage. There isn't any method to clear just a single lyric (such as Verse 14) from the selected passage, or is there?
(Yes, I know that I can achieve the same effect by removing Verse 14 altogether, moving the lyrics in it to, say, Verse 24, and the click-assigning Verse 24. That is what I'm going to stick with for now.)
(Finale version: Any full version. OS: Any.)
Clear a single lyric?
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For What It Is Worth, I do not know of a way to clear a single Verse from the score.
I suggest that you also ask in the forum on MakeMusic’s web site.
Some of the users there know a lot about plug-in development, and about scripting with FinaleScript or with Jari Williamson’s scripting plug-in JW Lua.
I suggest that you also ask in the forum on MakeMusic’s web site.
Some of the users there know a lot about plug-in development, and about scripting with FinaleScript or with Jari Williamson’s scripting plug-in JW Lua.
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Yes, that is probably the only way to proceed. The problem was that I have quite a lot of lyrics in the document (a vocal part from a 450-page 18th-century manuscript), and I accidentally misplaced some of them -- on top of other lyrics -- and discovered this only in the next day (during the shift lyrics phase: I prefer to automatically click assign the whole lyric and deal with melismata only afterwards). The consequence is that I can't reuse the affected lyric (Verse 14), since it would then appear in the wrong place. So I now have Verses 1-13 and 15- in the document, Verse 14 being empty. But I can live with that.miker wrote:Can you go to the Lyrics window, and delete the lyric there?
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With the approach mentioned there apparantly was the extra nuisance that the bogus Verse 14 prevented TGTools from automatically left-aligning melisma syllables for the affected passage, which had to be done manually.