Melisma in lyrics - keyboard issues
According to the handbook, to get a melisma in text place the cursor at the end of a syllable, then press Shift + Underline. The problem with this is that on some keyboards the underline symbol itself is obtained by pressing Shift + Minus, which gives a particular difficulty with this. This is what's happening on my Apple keyboard.
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Press whatever key gives you the underline. It is on Shift+- on a German keyboard and apparently on your Mac keyboard too.
And that is whan the handbook means, you can't shift a shifted key.
In reply to Press whatever key gives you… by Jojo-Schmitz
OK - thanks. That works. I thought that the issue was that the Minus sign is used to move on to the next syllable, but it seems to work if the Minus sign is pressed twice.
In reply to OK - thanks. That works. I… by dave2020X
The need to press it twice is the same for - and _ if you want to span another note
In reply to OK - thanks. That works. I… by dave2020X
The first press starts the melisma line on this note, but you still need to press it again for each additional note you want it to then continue over.
In reply to The first press starts the… by Marc Sabatella
That's OK - but I just didn't realise that the Underline and Minus were being treated (I think) essentially as the same. Otherwise there seemed to be the need for a Double Shift (i.e. Shift+Shift+Minus) on my keyboard, which didn't make sense and is in any case not possible.. That's a computer syntax point. Maybe the manual could make that clearer somehow.
In reply to That's OK - but I just didn… by dave2020X
While it is easy to get the difference between A (lower case a) and Shift+A (upper case A) accross, the same is rather difficult for all non-alpha keys. And esp. in the light of various international keybord layouts.
Maybe it should be just - and _, not mentioning the possible need of an additional Shift?
Ctrl+Shift+# (Mac: Cmd+Shift+#) is another such example, as Shift+# actually is a ' on e.g. a German keyboard