Lyrics that refuse to die
I began with an existing score that had four verses of lyrics. I deleted the existing lyrics in order to put new lyrics on that score. (i.e. "Select all similar elements in same staff") I select the first note, tap Ctrl-L to enter lyrics and now it spaces the staves for me to enter a fifth verse.
OK, I know there is a workaround for this: Enter the new lyrics and then set the space above lyrics to a ridiculously large negative number such that line 5 actually looks like line 1. But is there a way to force MuseScore to acknowledge that verses 1 through 4 are well and truly gone and we can start entering new lyrics on verse 1?
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Should work to simply hit up arrow a few times to get back to the first line, then continue entering them normally. You'd just have to do that each time you leave and re-enter lyrics mode. Also, if you save & reload, it shoud forget about the existence of those previous lyrics.
FWIW, in 2.0 Beta/Nightly builds, it already forgets the old lyrics automatically and starts new entry on the first line.
In reply to Should work to simply hit up by Marc Sabatella
What this person wants is MS to recognize when lyric lines are completely deleted, and to auto-move the existing lyrics up in positions to fill them without having to retype. Not a simple task.
In reply to What this person wants is MS by schepers
Could be, but that's not how I read it. I think they deleted *all* lyrics and now simply want to enter new ones. But you are of course right that if you only delete *some* lyrics, it is not easy to move the *remaining* lyrics up.