Lyrics: Hyphen over two systems and melisma
Hi everyone,
I have two questions:
1) In bar 7-8 and 16-17 the lyrics in the soprano contains more than one syllable ("fei-er-lich"; "her-vor-ge-bracht"). But the hyphen after the end of the system/page is not shown. This looks a bit strange to me but after some research I found some "professional" examples (e.g. Henle Verlag) that engrave in the same way. So, I guess that MuseScore´s behavior is intentional? Is there a setting to control this behavioral or is it hard coded?
2) For example, in bar 15 there is a melisma in the tenor ("dei-ne_"): I have observed that entering a melisma changes the alignment from center to left, which makes sense. But in this example, I don´t want the melisma line to be displayed; one bar before the line is suppressed ("sind"). Is there a setting, to control this behavior?
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As you mentioned, these are standard engraving practices, and thus hard-coded into MuseScore. However, if they really bug you:
1) You could use CRTL-hyphen to force a hyphen at the beginning of the line: "fei - er - -lich."
2) The reason that "-ne__" has a melisma and "sind" has none is that, at four letters, "sind" is too long to require one to fill up the horizontal space (if you stretched the measure really, really wide, it would appear). If you really hate the melisma on "ne__", just exit Lyrics on the C and reenter on the A.
I'm happy to be able to say that:
1) In 4.4 this will be configurable - you can show the hyphen at the beginning of the system, or not, according to your preference or the style you are following.
2) At the moment, melisma lines with less than a certain amount of space (1sp, I think) are hidden, which is why none is shown after 'sind', but one is after 'ne' (where there is more spaec); in 4.4, this value will also be configurable, or the behaviour can be turned off, or you can set a minimum length for all melisma lines, etc. However, controlling individual melisma lines remains impossible. wfazekas' solution works fine if you have a case where you just don't want one shown - enter the lyric on a single note (i.e. not as a melisma at all), then manually left-align it.
In reply to I'm happy to be able to say… by oktophonie
Hi wfazekas and oktophonie,
Thanks to all of you for the suggested workaround and the preview of 4.4 - these features will make it easier for me :)