Auto spacing with melisma, lyrics over top of melisma
When I have a longer lyric after a melisma, the notes do not automatically space to give enough room for the lyrics and the melisma.
What can I do?
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If you mean you need to put a space either before, or after (or both), the word 'Spring', you can enter a space by pressing Ctrl+spacebar when typing lyrics.
So, enter:
Ctrl+spacebar - S - p - r - i - n - g - Ctrl+spacebar.
See:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/lyrics#special-characters
EDIT: Correction made from 'Alt' to 'Ctrl'.
In reply to If you mean you need to put… by Jm6stringer
Ctrl+Space, not Alt+Space
In reply to Ctrl+Space, not Alt+Space by Jojo-Schmitz
OOOPS!
Thanks for catching that!
(I ought to read the handbook.)
Happy New Year!
In reply to If you mean you need to put… by Jm6stringer
Thank you
I'm not sure what you mean, the only melismas I see are one "whole", "me", and "life", and each is plainly visible.
In reply to I'm not sure what you mean,… by Marc Sabatella
The melisma after "whole" is too close to the next word "Spring." I wanted more space between the 3rd & 4th notes to make it more obvious which words go with which notes. Using the suggested "ctrl" + "spacebar," I achieved what I wanted. Please correct me if it isn't musically sound, just visibly more appealing to me.
In reply to The melisma after "whole" is… by Mkarends
Understood. That's actually a bug, make the word "Spring" longer and it even overlaps. I feel like I've seen this reported before but I'm not finding an issue for it at the moment.