wordwrap lyrics

[rjawad1]

Hello,
Is there a word wrap feature for lyrics. I have a note with many words attached to it. I want some of the words to go onto a second line. I did it by writing some of the lyrics in the first verse and some of the lyrics in a second verse. I don't think this is a very good way to do it. Is there a better way?

Thanks

[miker]

If it were me, I would space the notes out, so that you had room for the lyric. If that means you only get on measure in a system; well, it is what it is. But how is the singer supposed to know what to do? For a word wrap, you would have to enter a text box, rather than a lyric.

Here, I set the time signature to 13/8, set to display as 5/8. I inserted rests for the "missing" beats, to have something to attach the lyrics to. Finally, I moved the rests up off the staff, and hid them.

[rjawad1]

Thanks for the help. I know it's kind of weird what I'm trying to do.
I thought about spacing it out like you said, but some of the sentences are very long. Even if I put one measure for the whole system, some of the sentences still won't fit. I thought about splitting the measure over two systems, but I remember that being a hassle to do.

[zuill]

If you want all the lyrics in one verse, and want one line below another, this can be done. In order to do this, prepare your syllables in the lyric window. For syllables under one note, they can be in one unit with hard spaces between syllables. You can assign two of these blocks to the same note and then drag one block down manually.

Zuill

P.S.: Update--attaching to the same note has unexpected and undesirable behavior. Enter a hidden note in Voice 2 to the needed note (in this case the third note) and attach the other lyric block to that. You're probably better off just using another verse.

[motet]

I thought about splitting the measure over two systems, but I remember that being a hassle to do.

For future reference, the Split Measure plug-in makes it easy.