Embedded hyphens in lyrics MS 4.1
I apologize if this is the wrong place for this but I went in the GitHub and couldn't make head nor tail of it. I am doing some lyrics in Irish Gaelic and one feature of that language is embedded hyphens inside of a syllable. I am using a USA keyboard on a Mac (I understand from previous discussions that that could be a thing) and no matter what special key combinations I smash I CANNOT make that hyphen appear. How does one DO IT??
Thank you.
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You can enter a Unicode nonbreaking hyphen (U+2011) using the character viewer: when entering lyrics, open the character viewer, enter U+2011, then click on the character to insert one.
If you're doing this a lot, you can copy the character and then just use paste whenever you need another one. (I couldn't find another shortcut to do this.)
Alternatively, you can use option - to insert an en-dash, but this isn't a hyphen and it's a bit wide and skinny.
In reply to You can enter a Unicode… by brettrp
Can't you also do this by simply holding Ctrl key and then hitting the dash? Just like you can when you want a space without it moving to the next note you hold ctrl and hit the space bar?
Course they did say they are on a mac, so that might be the issue in itself.
In reply to Can't you also do this by… by nonyanikkibizness
option-dash does this on a Mac - it gives you an en dash without moving to the next note.
This looks different to a hyphen (see attached screenshot).
Of course it depends exactly what you want.
In reply to You can enter a Unicode… by brettrp
Thank you I should have thought of that. I was so tunnel vision on MuseScore must have a way. I'll try it next time. :)
I'm Scottish, not Irish and definitely not Gaelic (but I know a few swear words and put-downs). Can you expand upon what an embedded hyphen looks like and its expected behaviour?
In reply to I'm Scottish, not Irish and… by underquark
I have a hyphen on my keyboard. Option-hyphen does not do it. I'd take option-dash but where is the key for that? I'll try the unicode solution next. And to answer the question about what it looks like and does, it's usually an n- or a t- followed by a word beginning with a vowel, and you pronounce it but I can't remember all the grammar surrounding it. The most famous example is Ar n-Athair (Our Father) but I guess some are doing away with the dash and just writing it as Ar nAthair. Thank God the séimhiú diacriticals have been replaced by h. The fadas are pain enough.
In reply to I have a hyphen on my… by Tixrus
dash and hyphen is the same key. Try Alt+-, just like the handbook suggests, see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/lyrics#Special_characters_within_ly…
Maybe see https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/16314