Actually, I had quite a few spelling errors, I am sorry! Verse two is supposed to be arouse, so that is also a dash. Carl was right, the correct term was a dash not a hyphen, and putting it in quotes with on: βon β β worked perfectly, and it looks great! Sorry for the mistakes, and thank you for the help!
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 6:34 PM David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue 14 Sep 2021 at 18:05:17 (-0400), Kira Garvie wrote: > > Okay, I tried that, but it bumps the lyrics all over one. In the original > > page scan, which I am following, the hyphen falls right under the tied d > > 8th note. How do I override the tie to get the hyphen there? > > You don't want a hyphen there, you need a lyric extender: "__" > (without my quotes). You put one in the second verse, > precisely underneath. > > You probably want to replace the extender in the second verse > with a hyphen: "--" because I presume the word is onerous > (e, not a). > > Note that LP's intraword hyphens don't aim to line up with anything > musical, because that isn't the convention. > > Cheers, > David. > >
