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What I can do:

Type text into score.  Create different verses.  Adjust staves and adjust the vertical position of a verse. Use those "typed in score" verses to "click assign" syllables as long as the texts are identical. Repeat portions of text (by "click assign") within a line without having the program try to force that addition into another line.

Example: soprano line: "Up-on the moun-tains, like a young roe." changed to "Up-on the moun-tains, the moun-tains, like a young roe." for the alto line.

What I cannot do:

Make alterations in the text of the soprano line without the program automatically making that same alteration in the same verse of another (already assigned) line and also automatically shifting all the syllables right or left in the voice I did not want to alter. 

Example: soprano line: "Up-on the moun-tains like a young roe." changed to "Up-on the loft-y moun-tains like a young roe." for the tenor line. If I do that to the tenor line, the program will add "loft-y" to the soprano line and move all the syllables to the right two notes/spaces.

What am I doing or not doing that I need to change? ...aside from typing every word into the score for every part and not using the verse option.

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It sounds like you are using cloned lyrics, so changes in one affect the others. What you need to do is enter each verse separately, in its own verse, and assign each verse to the appropriate layer.

If you start in something like Word, it’s easy to copy/paste and make the changes as you go along. I would then run them through a hyphenator, like at https://juiciobrennan.com/hyphenator/ . Then, paste them into the lyric windows, and click/assign. I suggest doing the verses in a word processing program simply because the lyric window is too small, but you can do whatever works for you.

I avoid copy/paste of lyrics in the score. That way lies madness.

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Hi.

Thanks for answering!  and thanks for the hyphenator link.

I'm not sure what you mean by "cloned" lyrics, though.

Say I'm inserting lyrics into a duet where both voices have nearly the same words.  Because each voice is on its own staff I am not using different layers as I would if they are both on the same staff. Each staff is composed in layer 1.  I set the verse to verse 1 and I type the lyrics into the score under voice 1 and it also appears in the text box.  So far, so good.  I then go to voice 2 and I "click to assign" but I need an extra word in this version of the text.  I leave a space in the lyric of voice 2 where the added word goes.  I finish the "click to assign" of verse 1 under voice 2.  So far, so good.  Now I need to add that word.  I switch to "type into score" and add the word.  Finale goes nuts: adds the word to voice 2 AND 1 and every syllable after the added word in voice 1 is moved right.  So I delete the word and - I forget what happens - but I'm freaking out because I just made a mess and it doesn't fix anything. The best I can do is use the "undo" feature to get back to where I was before I added the word.  What should I have done?  Do I create a set of text boxes for voice 1 and another set for voice 2? Is using the same text box for each voice cloning the lyrics from one voice to the other? Have I just answered my own question?

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>> I'm not sure what you mean by "cloned" lyrics, though.

 

When one enters a stanza into the Lyrics Editor and clicks-enters the lyrics into multiple staves, one may say that "clones" the lyric in the Edit panel such that changing any instance of those lyrics changes all instances.

 

On the other hand, if one copies and pastes the original lyric, the lyrics are independent and click-entering the second, copied lyrics into another staff creates a situation in which each version may be edited separately. The only drawback to this is keeping track of which instance of the lyric in the Lyrics Editor is which.

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Each verse needs to be independent. In a 4-staff, SATB arrangement, I would put my lyrics in verses 1, 2, 3, and 4. You'll have to adjust the baselines, but that's no big deal.

 

I'll be happy to help you with this. Send me an email (my address is encoded in my signature) and we can do a Zoom.

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