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| The Lyric editor, available from **View → Open Lyric Editor**, allows you to edit all of the lyric events for a single staff at once, using a fairly rudimentary textual editing system. To use it, just activate the menu option, edit the lyric text in the resulting dialog, and then hit OK. | The Lyric editor, available from **View → Open Lyric Editor**, allows you to edit all of the lyric events for a single staff at once, using a fairly rudimentary textual editing system. To use it, just activate the menu option, edit the lyric text in the resulting dialog, and then hit OK. |
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| The lyrics you enter should follow a particular format. Bar lines are vital to avoid the editor getting confused, and are represented with a slash “/”. Within each bar the individual syllables are separated by at least one space (the editor doesn't care about any extra whitespace). Each syllable in turn will be attached to the next subsequent note or chord within that bar. | The lyrics you enter should follow a particular format. Bar lines are vital to avoid the editor getting confused, and are represented with a slash “/”. (Although at the moment the editor can get quite confused by chords that are not exact, i.e. that require smoothing or quantizing.) |
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| == Note == | Within each bar the individual syllables are separated by at least one space (the editor doesn't care about any extra whitespace). Each syllable in turn will be attached to the next subsequent note or chord within that bar. |
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| although at the moment the editor can get quite confused by chords that are not exact, i.e. that require smoothing or quantizing. | If you want a note to have no syllable attached to it, you need to provide a dot “.” as the syllable for that note. <sup>[[[/#ftn.id601696|7]]]</sup> <-FIXME Remember to separate the dots with spaces, so that they are clearly separate syllables. |
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| If you want a note to have no syllable attached to it, you need to provide a dot “.” as the syllable for that note. <sup>[[[/#ftn.id601696|7]]]</sup> Remember to separate the dots with spaces, so that they are clearly separate syllables. | |
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| If you want more than one syllable on the same note, with a space between them, use a tilde “~” instead of the space. It will be shown as a space on the score. | If you want more than one syllable on the same note, with a space between them, use a tilde “~” instead of the space. It will be shown as a space on the score. |
