How to paste dash/underscore in lyrics ?

• Jul 3, 2013 - 00:44

When I write lyrics manually, I can use dash, joining note syllables,
or underscores for prolonging syllables across the notes.

When I past lyrics, dashes or underscores are taken as regular characters.
Musescore uses them as if they were syllables.

How to make Musescore to treat pasted text by same way as if typed ?

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• Jul 3, 2013 - 07:16

It is not problem to insert dash by pasting.
It is problem for dash not to be taken as regular character.
I do not want dash either to be attached to a syllable, either to be inserted to note as a syllable.
I want dash to join syllables, same as if I manually type then lyrics.

Or I do not get it what you mean.

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• Jul 3, 2013 - 15:10

If I type text of the song lyrics manually, typing hyphen/dash connects syllables staying at the notes,

"Bla - Bla"

"Bla" is under notes, the hyphen/dash "-" is between notes.

If i try to do the same by pasting from text editor, hyphen/dash is always taken as regular character.

If I use ""Bla - Bla", then "-" is taken as a syllable.
If I use ""Bla- Bla", then "-" is taken as an ending character of sylable "bla-"

I want to know a way how pasted "-" can be between syllables AND notes, as if just typed.

Similar issue is valid for underscore.

I accept the possibility I am a blind newbee not seeing the obvious...

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• Jul 3, 2013 - 15:22

If I understand correctly, you want to use copy & paste to enter lyrics that were already typed in some other program, and are trying to figure out how to enter the hyphen that is used to separate syllables.

If so, then try this:

The ans- wer my friend, is blow- ing in the wind
The ans- wer is blow- ing in the wind

EDIT: never mind, now I see that this does not really work - the hyphen gets attached to the syllable rather than placed between them as expected. So, I don't know. I usually type lyrics directly.

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• Jul 3, 2013 - 19:20

Thank you very much for the effort and explanation.

But it seems to me it is all about ways of typing,
not about pasting of prepared text from text editor., as I understand the file.

What I want to get is the 1st half of the first line of your sample mscz file,
by pasting text and eventually some manual "-" additions, if cannot be done by pasting.

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• Jul 3, 2013 - 19:22

When pasting syllables successively from the blackboard copied from a text file with a space between the syllables, one has to insert hyphen later, putting the prompt in the left syllable and pressing the hyphen key

..it seems to me as not working, doing nothing.

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• Jul 3, 2013 - 20:04

On notepad (or LibreOffice, or a text editor) I typed bla, bla, bla,: bla(space)bla(space)bla(space)
I get:
bla bla bla bla;
Copy (from here);
Go to the score, select the first note, Ctrl+L;
Ctrl+V (paste), V, V, V;
Click anywhere on the page;
Double-click at the end of the first syllable (the first bla);
Only enter hyphen , hyphen , hyphen .
the hyphen should be placed between a note and the next. So it works with Vista and 1.3

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