How to deal with a word like willy-nilly in a songtext
May I introduce to you? My name is Wolfram Hüttermann and I am from Germany. I have been working with musescore intensively for six weeks and I can give you some tricks. Some English words have hyphens like the word "willy-nilly". If you use this word in a song, you cannot write it like wil-ly-nil-ly. The trouble is that this word will appear like "willynilly" if you copy the textsong into a clipboard.
What can one do? You have to protect the second hyphen, then this word will appear as it is written. I Here is some information how to put such a hyphen in your computer:
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See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/lyrics#special-characters
In reply to See https://musescore.org/en… by SteveBlower
Thank you for this hint.
And when in doubt of how to do something in MuseScore, there is of course also the handbook: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/lyrics#special-characters
In reply to And when in doubt of how to… by jeetee
If you know what you're looking for and where to find it
In reply to If you know what you're… by Scarpia
Looking for lyrics in the chapter called lyrics which is referenced as such directly from the main page isn't that far fetched though, is it? I agree that some other parts are way harder to find easily, but this isn't one of them.