Then the CEO of the company declared that it would be wrong to spell "God" with all lower case. They were designed to have only one case, and the engineers determined that lower case was more legible, and so that was chosen. ** There's an old story about the first computer terminals and dot matrix printers. Change the font to something with a larger body, perhaps. Upper case is generally not as legible as lower case**.
However, I would question the choral director's motives. Then copy and paste the text back, as Brian's method. Then just copy and paste the text from the Edit Lyrics window into TW An excellent text editor on the Mac, and useful for all sorts of other things, too. Rpmseattle | powermac G5 | dual 2.5Ghz | 3.5gb RAM | OSX 10.4.11 | Post Edited (rpmseattle) : 4:46:38 PM (GMT-5)
I've sent an email to Robert Piechard about this - hopefully, it is already something that is possible with the new improved Finalescript in 2009. I've never tried it, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work (as long as no new hyphens or syllables were added, etc)Īre you saying definitively that there is no way to use Finalescript to do global text case conversion in the manner I am after? I do like the simplicity of simply replacing the lyrics in the lyric editor while they are still selected. As I mentioned, I use Word (and also Appleworks) - neither of which, as far as I know support upper case conversion (although as I said, I may be wrong about Word since I don't use it for anything other than very basic tasks.
Robert, do any of your Mac text editors or word processors support uppercase conversion? If so, you can do a shortened, simplified version of what I suggested, such as:ĩ) Return to Finale Lyric Editor (where everything is still selected) Rpmseattle | powermac G5 | dual 2.5Ghz | 3.5gb RAM | OSX 10.4.11 | Image Attachment : Surely a robust text editor like BBEDIT would allow me to try this, but I don't think Word has this capability (perhaps it does, but I'd consider myself a novice Word user)
You mentioned an applet - perhaps this is something that you know how to program? I would have no idea how to generate an applet to do this. Trying to think of a text application that would allow me to try your solution. Obviously as fast and elegant as Finale script is, I was hoping for a more integrated (e.g. This will work great, but of course, it also involves a number of steps. lyrics) to all caps, all lower case, or word initial caps. I've attached a screen shot of the Sibelius plugin, which allows you to change any specific type of text (e.g. I had actually thought about doing this in a similar roundabout way using Music XML, converting to Sibelius, using the Change Case Plugin in Sibelius 5 and then converting the file back to Finale. Job Done! It's actually much quicker in reality than the above 12 steps suggest, although it obviously assumes you have access to some uppercase conversion filter.
Here's a method that's just worked for me (Finale 2005b)ġ) Go to Edit Lyrics (in the Lyrics tool)Ĥ) Start Notepad (the Windows editor, not Finale's little sister)ħ) Convert FOO.TXT to upper case as BAR.TXT, using an appropriate filter or appletġ1) Return to Finale Lyric Editor (where everything is still selected) Rpmseattle | powermac G5 | dual 2.5Ghz | 3.5gb RAM | OSX 10.4.11 | Back to Top
I am currently in Finale 2008, but if this is available in Finale 2009 I'll upgrade today. Surely there must be a way to do this in Finalescript globally rather than having to address individual words or syllables? This feature would also be useful for being able to change the names of all instruments in the parts to all caps for certain charts, or to change all techniques and expressions to lower case in one shot.Īlso, please note. I have a choral piece that is in Latin and I have been asked by the director to put the lyrics in all caps. MakeMusic Forum > Public Forums > FinaleScript - FORUM HAS MOVED! > How do I convert ALL Lyrics to ALL CAPS?