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Harpsi
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  		   Posted 6/11/2015 7:37 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I have the habit of click-assigning lyrics, pasting them into the lyrics window from an external editor. Because of the shortcomings of the lyrics window, I put my lyrics in different verses (even if I don't have any actual verses) and then set the baselines for all verses to -144e. As I neither could find a shortcut for this nor get the TGTools plug to work, I wrote the following script. Simple but efficient. As the question has come up in the other parts of the forum I share it here, and by doing that I know where to find it if I lose it, soI don't have to type it in again.


Lyrics tool

Menu item "Adjust baselines"

Type 1
press tab
type -144
press shift tab

Type 2
press tab
type -144
press shift tab

Type 3
press tab
type -144
press shift tab

Type 4
press tab
type -144
press shift tab

Type 5
press tab
type -144
press shift tab

Type 6
press tab
type -144
press shift tab

Type 7
press tab
type -144
press shift tab

Type 8
press tab
type -144
press shift tab

Type 9
press tab
type -144
press shift tab

Type 10
press tab
type -144
press shift tab

Type 11
press tab
type -144
press shift tab

Type 12
press tab
type -144
press shift tab

Type 13
press tab
type -144
press shift tab

Type 14
press tab
type -144
press shift tab

Type 15
press tab
type -144
press shift tab

Type 16
press tab
type -144
press shift tab

Type 17
press tab
type -144
press shift tab

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Peter Thomsen
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  		   Posted 6/11/2015 8:05 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Good idea!

Since not all users have selected EVPUs as Measurement Units in Finale, I would, in the third line of each paragraph, add an ‘e’ after the number:

type -144e

In that way the script will work correctly, no matter what Measurement Units are selected.

Peter

Mac Finale, 2011c, 2012c & 2014d, Dolet 6.4 plug-in, Mac OS X 10.9.5, iMac Intel Core i7, 2.93 GHz, 16 GB RAM

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Harpsi
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  		   Posted 6/11/2015 9:45 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yes, even better.

If someone wants other numbers the best way to change would probably be to do a search and replace in an external editor.

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