Space between lyrics words

• Nov 27, 2016 - 08:21

There is too little space between some of my adjacent lyrics words.
Isn't there a way to set a minimum space?


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MuseScore does its best to space correctly, but I agree that sometimes the spacing is too tight.

I get round this on individual words by adding "Ctrl+Space" at the end of a word. I don't know of any global setting in MuseScore to set the spacing more loosely.

The minimum note distance parameter mentioned above also controls minimum lyric distance, so that is indeed one option. Not great if your score contains a mix of instrumental and vocal music and you don't really want to increase the minimum distance globally. Increasing stretch in the measures with the problem is probably the next best way to go aside from manually adding space to individual syllables.

The next major version of MuseScore will include some additional controls that may be helpful, in particular an option to force enough space between hyphenated words so that the hyphen is always displayed.

In reply to by My Heart Belon…

Absolutely correct: Format > Style > Lyrics > Lyrics Text > Min.distance
Increasing the "Min. distance" value can make the lyrics easier to read:
Lyric_spacing_default.jpg
Lyric_spacing_increased.jpg

But Marc Sabatella makes a great point earlier in this thread:
"... Not great if your score contains a mix of instrumental and vocal music and you don't really want to increase the minimum distance globally."

In reply to by DanielR

Marc made that point in 2016 in reference to the note-spacing control. Now that there is independent lyric-spacing, instrumental passages should be unaffected.When I tested just now, an increase in lyric-spacing had no effect in the areas where I hadn’t yet added lyrics.

But thanks to MHBtD and DanielR. This is exactly the feature I went hunting for and couldn’t find.

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