No dash in lyrics

• Jul 16, 2009 - 22:16

As I try to add lyrics to a piece of music, i wish to use a dash to separate a word on to two or more notes. However, when I ty to add a dash to show thqat the word is continued on the next note, the dash disappears.
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• Jul 17, 2009 - 04:23

Not sure whether you mean hyphen or underscore (or some other type of dash). When you press the hyphen it does go on to the next note but a hyphen should appear between the two syllables. If you are trying to add an underscore try typing it more than once.

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• Jul 17, 2009 - 05:46

AS I first tried to add the hyphen, the cursor moved on to the next note without depositing a symbol.
After your message and reading the appropriate part, I went back and tried again. A hyphen did appear. Unfortunately, as you will see from the attached screen shot, a 2nd, unwanted hyphen is now appearing.

I saved the file and tried to reload, as this has seemed to fix bugs in the past.

Musescore crashed.

Its too late right now, but I will explore further tomorrow.
Thank for your assistance.
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• Jul 17, 2009 - 07:12

I filed a bug for the unwanted second hyphen issue you mention. See http://musescore.org/en/node/2050

I have encountered the bug before but never got around to reporting it. As a workaround I usually just press hyphens and spaces until it is correct (i.e. I come to a couple syllables in a row with spaces or a couple syllables in a row with hyphens).

I have not encountered the crash before and when I press hyphen it always seems to "deposit a [hyphen] symbol"

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