Christopher BJ Smith wrote, part:
And how do you shift syllables for the second verse without messing up the first verse?
This is one of the places I'd use the edit lyric's dialog box. It is my experience that as long as the first syllable of the line of lyric attached to each staff stays in the same place when measured by syllable count, relative to the first syllable in the block, one can change the order of blocks assigned to a staff. So, if I needed to shift syllables to the right, I'd find the next open note to which I wanted the syllables shifted, and assign to it some obvious character, like "�" using type into score. I would then go into the lyrics dialog box for the appropriate lyric segment, find the �, highlight both that character and the space immediately before it, and cut it, characters out. I would then move to the first syllable I wanted to shift, and paste the space and � cut just before that syllable. I would then return to type into score, and delete the �. An essential key to the success of this method is not to change the syllable count between the first syllable of the second verse, and the first syllable of the third verse, while in "edit lyrics mode".
Mark D Lew wrote:
I think of shift lyrics as an Edit Lyrics type function, the natural companion to opt-Click Assign. I'm not sure why one would need it with Type in Score.
I need shift lyrics because even in type into score mode, I sometimes find that I have assigned a series of sylllabls to the wrong pitches, and shifting is easier than retyping.
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