Aligning numbered lyrics with initial punctuation
Lyric numbering appears to work as follows: When a lyric begins with a digit (assumed to be a verse number) then MuseScore aligns the first alphabetic character in each line.
But there is a small set of punctuation marks that can commonly begin a line of verse: double quote, single quote or apostrophe, and Spanish inverted question and exclamation marks. (Likely there are others I've forgotten.) The code that aligns numbered lyrics should accept and align these common punctuation marks as well as alphabetic characters.
In the attached score, measure 1 is the current behavior; measure 2 is roughly the desired alignment.
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| Test-Verses.mscz | 4.3 KB |
Comments
Yes, there has been some discussion of this topic before. It's kind of complicated, because in other settings, the way we handle those characters is what the user does expect, and it's impossible for us to know for sure which situations are which. But see for example #24856: Ignore "parenthesized expressions" that precede lyric syllables and #36366: Parse verse number out of lyric and align lyric properly