Cue lyric woes?

Dorico
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Hi smart people!

Is there a way to convince Dorico to include the lyric text for “wrong” on that orphaned tied 8th note in the top two instruments? I can’t figure out a way even to select a cue note to check its properties once the cue has been entered… :man_facepalming:t2:

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Thanks in advance!

David

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Someone may have a better idea, but:

  1. Untie the note in the voice staff
  2. Delete the “wrong” and re-enter it just on the eighth note; it should now show up in the cues
  3. Add the tie back

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But then the lyric in the source staff will look wrong too (ha!)—centered on the 8th-note and without an extender line.
What you could always do is make an extra ‘dummy’ player, copy the vocal line into that but with @asherber 's adaptation, then cue from that, rename the cue and hide the dummy staff from the printed layout. Also useful if the material to be cued is e.g. woodwind tutti chords or a cross-staff keyboard part. An obvious drawback is that you lose the direct coupling between the original part and the cue.

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Ah, true, sorry.

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I had a similar problem the other day.

The problem is likely to do with the extender line. As an experiment, you could try extending the cue length up to the next lyric. If ‘wrong’ appears, then that’s the likely culprit.

I can’t exactly remember how I fixed it, but I think I inserted a dummy note and word just after the end of my equivalent of ‘wrong’, then got Dorico to re-calculate the length of the extender line by editing ‘wrong’ then pressing space. Followed by deleting the dummy note and word.

But I think your situation is slightly different from mine, so it may not work. You don’t want the whole of ‘wrong’ to appear, whereas I did in my case.

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