ergonomics of hyphenated lyrics on slurred notes
BaptismOfTheLordOffertory.mscz
1) Refer to the final Alleluia in the .mscz file, using Musescore 2.3.2.
2) Observe the ease of use in entering it.
3) Using Musescore 3, it is difficult to enter.
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Can you explain in more detail what you find difficult about this? I can't see anything that would be even one keystroke different between MuseScore 2 & 3. What specifically are you doing in 2.3.2 that you find you can't do in 3.1?
In reply to Can you explain in more… by Marc Sabatella
In MuseScore 2.3.2, consider the le- on the final Alleluia.
I can enter le- lyrics followed by a blank.
The hyphen is placed OK.
In Musescore 3, I can only enter "le" without the hyphen.
Then, I must press the forward arrow about 10 times, before placing the hyphen at precisely the right location.
In reply to In MuseScore 2.3.2, consider… by alenskold
le - many times until the next note/syllable?
In reply to le - many times until the… by Shoichi
It is unnatural to type a word containing consecutive hyphens.
At least in English, you can't find such a word.
It is more natural to type le, then immediately just one hyphen, then blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank until the next unslurred note.
The software ought to know the optimal placement of 2 or 3 hyphens, because ten hyphens would look strange.
I haven't used version 2.3.2 in quite a while, but, as I recall, it prettied up its output nicely.
In reply to It is unnatural to type a… by alenskold
That was never the way to do things in 2.3.2 either. It's always been the case that you are supposed to keep entering hyphens. And more efficient - why change keys unnecessarily?
And the program does calculate optimum position for you. You don't need to worry about any of that, just type the hyphens and MuseScore takes care of everything for you, automatically. Again, no difference from MuseScore 2, except that the automation is quite a bit smarter now and also more configurable via style settings. If one hyphen is all that is needed, that's all you'll get, even if you type ten. But if the notes are widely enough spaced that the rules of music notation call for two or three hyphens to be, that's what MuseScore will do, and it will space them out optimally for you.
In reply to In MuseScore 2.3.2, consider… by alenskold
Nothing there has change between MuseScore 2 and 3
In reply to In MuseScore 2.3.2, consider… by alenskold
To be clear: type "le", then type hyphen as many times as it takes to reach the next note where you want to enter a new syllable. Again, absolutely nothing whatsoever has changed between MuseScore 2 and 3 in this respect.
In reply to In MuseScore 2.3.2, consider… by alenskold
@ alenskold, double click the syllable end eg. le press - again. You will delete the previous ones and you will not have to change key.