Problem with paste lyrics
I don't know if this has been reported, but I couldn't find anything about it with a search.
The example was created by:
- Selecting the lyrics in the alto part
- Clicking on Edit/Tools/Copy lyrics to clipboard
- Selecting the first note of the bass part
- Typing Control-L, then repeatedly Control-V
As you can see, the words "thy servants" are run together, making the subsequent lyrics in the wrong place.
Why does this happen, and how can I stop it?
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If I copy your lyrics and put them in, for example, Notepad I get 'How are thy servants blest, O Lord, How sure is their defense!'
Try the attached (so is preferable to 'park' them in a text processor)
It shouldn't work that way. If you have a hyphen in the lyrics you copy from it should copy that way, even if the hyphen isn't placed with ctrl-- like Shoichi's version is. This seems to me to be a bug.
In reply to It shouldn't work that way. by mike320
Thanks for the answers. I'm glad to know about the workaround, but I also agree that it shouldn't happen like it does.
In reply to Thanks for the answers. I'm by jcorelis
If you want, you could file a bug report
In reply to If you want, you could file a by Shoichi
Well, I'm still having problems with it.
I copied the lyrics into Notepad using the Edit Tools Copy Lyrics to Clipboard. In Notepad, the dash in servants had disappeared. But when I copied the lyrics from Notepad back to another staff of the score, I'm still getting thyservants as one word. I know the example given above seems to work, but it didn't for me.
Another problem I've found is that if you begin a line of lyrics with a number-period-cntrl/space, copy those lyrics into Notepad, then paste them back into the score, the paste treats the number-period-space as an independent word, putting it by itself under the first note.
I suspect this is deliberate, that the "Copy lyrics to clipboard" function removes the hyphens so the lyrics can be used in ordinary text documents etc. It wasn't meant, as far as I know, to be used as an intermediate step when copying lyrics from one place in a score to another, and I'm not sure why you are trying to use it that way? If your goal is to simply copy lyrics from alto to bass, don't use "Copy lyrics to clipboard" function - simply use regular "Copy". And no need for repeatedly hitting Ctrl+V when you do it that way - a single Ctrl+V will paste the entire group of lyrics.
So:
1) right click first lyric of alto part
2) Select / All Similar Elements in Same Staff
3) Ctrl+C
4) click first note of bass part
5) Ctrl+V
In reply to I suspect this is deliberate, by Marc Sabatella
Thanks for the clarification.
The problem with using Select All Similar Elements in Same Staff is that it, well, Selects ALL Similar Elements in Same Staff, and sometimes I want to do something more complicated, like copy the lyrics from measures 20-26 of the alto staff to measures 40-46 of the bass staff. I discovered I can do this by Shift-Drag copying the lyrics, but that gets a little awkward since apparently the Shift-drag select doesn't go beyond the end of a line in one operation. I was looking for an easier way to copy any given stretch of lyrics to any other given stretch of measures with the same note rhythms.
In reply to Thanks for the by jcorelis
First make a range selection of those notes/measures. Then use Select all similar items within range.
In reply to First make a range selection by jeetee
Thanks, that seems to be the easiest way.