Lyrics: add option to automatically generate dash as appropriate before first syllable of system
Reported version
3.5
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Reproducibility
Always
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
OS: Windows 10 (10.0), Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 3.5.0.13199, revision: 43c5553
Not a new issue.
Open the attached MS file with a specimen set of lyrics. The preceding dash before the lyric syllable on the second system is missing. i.e.
Last measure of system 1:
First measure of system 2:
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| lyrics_issue.mscz | 6.58 KB |
Comments
In some languages, the dash before a lyric in this situation is standard (like French) in other languages this is unheard of (like German from what I've seen). In English I've seen it both ways about the same number of times. This is not a bug, but rather by design. It would be nice to have an option to automatically put it in when you want it.
Agreed, it should be an option "Additional lyrics dash after system break" or some such
And actually have a need for that myself too at times
Indeed, not standard by any means, but no doubt some publisher somewhere does this. I recall MuseScore did not originally do this for melisma lines either which is standard, this was fixed as part of the "unmanaged spanner" implementation of lyric lines a few years back. I suspect that if an option were added to allow hyphens to work this way as well, it could probably leverage some of the same code, since hypens and melismas are generally treated by similarly.