How do I change the default syllable separator character for lyrics?

• Aug 3, 2022 - 22:03

I write scores, true to the original, like from old German song books with German type (Frakturschrift). Unfortunately, the separator between text syllables must not be a hypen ( - ) but an oblique equal sign ( = ). My font also includes this character, but I couldn't find a text style in the application where I can set this.


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In reply to by Jojo-Schmitz

Well, this is a solution but a rather unpleasant one. Also just found out that Ctrl + Space enables me to enter spaces, really helps with the initial "1. [...]" at the beginning of each sheet, but I digress, placing one or more spaces and adding the hyphen manually will do the work, but now I have to retouch hundreds of sheets with this approach, added to this I need to delete a bunch of the lyrics beforehand as the dash will automatically reappear as long as the first syllable once initiated a dash ... not really looking forward to that, but thanks.

In reply to by Richard Angerer

If this is something done in currently published scores, feel free to open a suggestion for a new feature around this in the Issue Tracker, and then it can be considered for a future release. Even if it's only something done centuries ago, there is a chance it might be considered. But certainly, knowing that there are current publishers still doing this - and thus current musicians accustomed to reading this - would make a difference in prioritizing it.

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