When importing chant from Finale, the nonbreaking space is opt-space and needs to be changed to shift-opt-space. Is there a better way to do this than edit line of lyrics > copy > go to a text editor > paste > find and replace space > copy > back to lyrics editor > fingers crossed that it works. Bill
As far as I know, that’s the same non-breaking space character. It’s just that Dorico has chosen a different key to produce it. I think there’s no real need to replace the character itself, but my experience with Finale is practically zero, so I may be wrong.
What you show in your example aren’t non-breaking spaces, but so-called elision slurs, which you can enter in lyrics by using an underscore character (_).
Those elisions are how Dorico interprets Finale’s hard space.
::: Bill
As a test, I retyped those six Psalm verses and it took six minutes. Doing the round trip to the text editor wouldn’t have been much faster. Still, if there is an easy answer I would be curious to know it. ::: Bill
Opening the Single Lyric Editor, copying to a text editor, running a Find/Replace, pasting back and pressing OK took me 24 seconds, including some mis-steps. Admittedly, I have got a saved search pattern for this in my text editor.
Finale exports non-breaking spaces on lyrics thus:
So, it’s a type of elision, which happens to be an NB-Space, on six single syllables. Dorico treats all elisions as … elisions; though there is an argument that an elision defined as an NBSpace ought to be handled better.
Dorico exports the text as one thing.
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