Adding an elision under an English word

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Hi,

I’m stumped on how to do this. According to the manual it should be possible.

I have a single english lyric “Tower” which spans 2 eighth notes. The customer doesn’t want it hyphenated but as a single word with an elision under it. I’ve enabled Show East Asian elision slur in the properties panel and it is selection in my engraving option. What is not clear to me is what do I type to make it display the elision. It’s probably something easy, but I’m not finding what I need. Thanks so much for your help

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I don’t think the East Asian elision slurs are applicable here. But I also don’t think that what you want is an elision. An elision is used to join two syllables that would normally be separated by a space, so that they can appear under a single note. You get that by typing an underscore in between the syllables.

What you want is for the two-syllable word tower to be sung as one syllable over two notes. That’s just a single word with a word extension – enter ‘tower’ under the first note and then a space under the second note. If the notes are close together, you won’t even see the extension.

If you want to be clearer about the fact that the word should be sung as a single syllable, maybe it could be entered as “tow’r” or something like that.

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thank you for your reply, but I’m restricted to what the customer wants. So, I guess what I need to do is figure out how to put a curved line under the word tower. Maybe with Shift X for text?

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Or a slur that you reposition in Engrave mode? Maybe someone with more experience than me with lyrics has a better idea.

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thank you, Asherber

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See if this thread is what you are after. Elision mark in text frame? There’s a link to the required Liturgico font.

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Yep Liturgico is what you want. I just used it like a dozen times in the past hour.

you can add it to lyrics using “Edit Single Lyric.”

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Elision-text
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Thanks, I don’t think I knew about that. I will give it a try.

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What I’m seeing in this link is exactly what I’m trying to do. Thanks so much.

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Hi Dan, I downloaded and installed the Liturgico font. It shows up in my Windows font directory, but I’m not seeing it in Dorico in the edit single lyric window

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Just a guess: did you rebooted your computer?

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Assuming you rebooted,

  1. Edit Single Lyric
  2. Add one, two, or three underscores where desired (in the middle of the word)
  3. Select them and from the dropdown, change font to Liturgico
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:face_with_open_eyes_and_hand_over_mouth: (embarrassed face) Well, no, I didn’t reboot…. duh…. ok. will try again. Thank you both

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It works beautifully!!! Thank you again