Mac Finale, v27.4, Mac OS X 14.7.6 (Sonoma), iMac Apple M3, 24 GB RAM
For What It Is Worth, this issue has been fixed in Finale v25.
The following is probably best done in the Lyrics window, rather than in the score: Instead of the “minus” hyphen, use a hard hyphen: Text menu > Insert Hard Hyphen After the hard hyphen, type a ...
In that case I suspect some sort of file corruption. 1) As a test, try the same in another document, e. g. a new, fresh empty “Document Without Libraries”. If everything works in another document...
… Doesn't work … Let me get this straight: Before entering any lyrics you change the lyrics font in the Document Options. Still, when you enter lyrics, it changes back to the Finale Lyrics font...
Before you begin entering lyrics, try changing the font in Document menu > Document Options - Fonts Could not hurt to try it.
… Every time I try to change the font, as soon as I press OK it changes back to finale lyrics and I can't see any text … Where did you change the font? - Perhaps in Document menu > Document Opt...
… It says, Show when needed … In that case I suspect that the culprit can be found in the Time Signature Tool. The dialog box Time Signature can be expanded to show the option “Use a Different ...
Tracy Behrman, Have you looked in the Measure Attributes (see my previous post)?
… I want to move from 4/4 into cut-time … What do you mean? 1) You have entered the entire piece in 4/4, and now find out that 2/2 better fits the character of the music, or 2) The first region o...
… How would you do that, Peter? … You can give a staff or a staff group any name, in any font. To get a sharp accidental, use as the Name the character ‘#’ from a music font in size 24 Points. Yo...