Unwanted extension lines
I've got a few unwanted extension lines here and there in my choral piece. They are running through or underlining other words. During my copying and pasting I didn't delete them with the word they were attached to. Now they are stubbornly refusing to be deleted at all. Anyone got any idea how I can remove them?
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Can you share the score?
Can you attach the score you are having problems with?
Add a similar one, right-click on->All Similar Elements->Del
Switch to 'Continuous View' and try to delete
Almost certainly they are connected to a syllable, and the challenge will be to find the syllable they are connected to. But indeed, we can't help you find it without the score :-)
In reply to Almost certainly they are… by Marc Sabatella
Hi Marc
If you look on page 2 bars 14/15 you can see the lines I'm talking about in the tenor and bass between the words 'the winter'. Again on page 3 bars 33/34 in the bass underlining words there. Again page 4 bars 57/58 in the bass. Finally, page 5, bar 62, just a small one in the tenor under the word 'then'.
Thanks
John
In reply to Hi Marc… by finnpjohn1
I can't find them.
In reply to I can't find them. by Shoichi
I didn't see it in measures 14/15 but I found melismas in most of the other places. Put the cursor at the end of the word and press space and they will go away.
In reply to Almost certainly they are… by Marc Sabatella
Hi Marc
Been away from this for a couple of weeks. Did you see the score I sent over?
John
In reply to Hi Marc Been away from this… by finnpjohn1
Have you seen mike320's answer?
In reply to Have you seen mike320's… by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes I tried that. Didn't seem to do anything. I think they are tied to words I had previously but then deleted. I can't seem to connect to them to delete.
In reply to Yes I tried that. Didn't… by finnpjohn1
You wrote:
I can't seem to connect to them to delete.
Double click on the word (or syllable) to enter lyric edit mode.
Then, using Mike's advice: 'put the cursor at the end of the word and press space'.
Result:
Bee Carol2.mscz
Does it now look OK?
In reply to Hi Marc Been away from this… by finnpjohn1
Sorry, I didn't respond originally because I thought the other responses you got were spot on. That is, I don't see a problem in measure 14-15 either, but for the other places where I see inappropriate extension lines (like measure 34), they are pretty clearly attached to the preceding syllables, so editing the syllable and pressing "Space" instead instead of "_" corrects the error.
Actually, it seems to me you are using the underscore extension lines incorrectly throughout the score. The extension lines are only for the last syllable of a word. To connect syllables within a word, you should be using hyphens, and you should be doing this whether the syllable extends across multiple notes or not.
BTW, do be sure you are using the current version of MuseScore; it's certainly possible older versions had bugs that might cause extra lines to show up that don't show up for us.