Move multiple lyrics
I have MuseScore 2.02 f51dc11, running on Windows 8.1 (64bit).
I have a staff with 2 voices, and in some places, the two voices have separate lyrics. I want to move the lyrics for voice 1 above the staff. So far I have found out how to do it with Text Properties, but it only works on one lyric at a time, and I want to move several measures worth. I tried extending the selection, but the Text Properties only applied the change to one lyric.
Steps to reproduce problem (see attached file, measure 20):
- enter notes for Voice 1
- enter notes for Voice 2
- enter lyrics for Voice 1: "All the mu-sic of life seems to be"
- click on "All", then Ctrl-Click on each of the other lyrics (now they are all blue)
- right-Click to get Lyrics dialog, select Text Properties, change Offset Vertical from 6.00 to -3.00 mm, OK
The result is that "All" moves above the staff, but not "the mu-sic of life seems to be".
Is there a way to do this?
Thanks,
Jake
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Comments
Hold down [Ctrl] and right-click to select multiple lyrics. Go to the Inspector and change the vertical spacing to -10.50 or thereabouts.
An alternative when using two Voices with a shared line or with one line of lyrics each is to enter all the lyrics in one Voice only and then change the properties for one line of lyrics (Style ->Text ->Lyrics Odd Lines and ->Lyrics Even lines).
To select lyrics in voice 1 only, right click one such lyric, then Select / More / Same voice. Or, if you haven;t yet entered the lyrics for voice 2, just Select / All Similar Elements.
In reply to To select lyrics in voice 1 by Marc Sabatella
Marc - thanks for that suggestion, but the issue is not about selection. The problem is that the changes in Text Properties are not applied to the entire selection, it just changes the first element instead of all the selection.
In reply to Marc - thanks for that by eejake52
Right, that's why you need to use the Inspector rather than Text Properties, as suggested above. I was just mentioning alternate ways of doing the selection - Ctrl+click one by one can be very cumbersome unless there are only a few to move. MsueScore provides much more powerful selection mechanisms.
In reply to Right, that's why you need to by Marc Sabatella
OK - got it sorted out. Thanks.