How to delete extender lines from solfege entered as lyrics

[jeffrags]

Lyrics - Chorus (solfege) I put above the staff with regular lyrics below the staff… I cannot find how to make the extender lines disappear.

I get the strong feeling the Dorico crew is going to completely revisit how lyrics are handled in Dorico. Of course, that will take a long while, but a workaround will more than suffice. Thanks, all!

[jeffrags]

@fkretlow

@benwiggy

One issue I have is that I get extension lines when enter figures on tied notes, even if I ‘move away’ using arrow keys. I’ve taken to entering such figures on other notes and then moving them with Alt-arrows. But it’s a bit tiresome if you’ve got loads of different figures on a pedal note…!

Any tips?

Yes, this is awkward. Tip: don’t care about the extender lines until you’ve input all the figures. Then select them all, switch to Engrave Mode, activate the Line End X property and input something like -1000. Thus you should get rid of them all at once.

For multiple figures under a pedal note I recommend inputting one note at every rhythmic position where there’s a figure first, then input the figures and tie the notes afterwards.

I find this workaround, but Engrave has the ‘Select All’ option greyed out. To activate the Line End X property for these lyrics, I cannot select lyrics to change their properties save by going through each lyric one by one.

[Rob_Tuley]

The instruction wasn’t perfectly clear. It means “… select them all in Write Mode, then switch to Engrave Mode…”

[Romanos]

@Rob Tuley

The instruction wasn’t perfectly clear. It means “… select them all in Write Mode, then switch to Engrave Mode…”

I must admit, one of my grievances with Dorico is that it is difficult to select things in engrave mode (and more to the point: that it is not uncommon from 2.2 onwards to have things selected and switch to engrave mode only to have them be deselected because 20 minutes ago you adjusted some note spacing and forgot to switch that off). sigh.