Please, I don’t want to type the lyrics in the notes. I don’t want to type syllable by syllable. That’s a delay. Can I bring the entire text into Dorico? Where do I put this text? And how do I then put the text in the notes?
Thank you to anyone who can help me.
Split first into syllables (AI is your friend) and then just copy it with cmd/ctrl+c and paste it into the lyrics note by note.
To do a whole line automatically is not possible, but I believe there is an AHK script posted in the forum to do just that.
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Because Dorico assigns syllables (ultimately) to a position in the measure rather than to individual notes, adding a line at a time (even through a script) is not as convenient as it was in Finale, since moving syllables around afterwards does not work to move note-by-note the way Finale handled it.
Pasting a copied line syllable by syllable is suitably convenient and the best way to go in Dorico.
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Yes. Prepare the hyphenated text in any text editor.
Copy it to the Clipboard.
Open the Lyric popover, and then just press Paste (Command V or CTRL V). Type hyphens or spaces for notes that have no syllables.
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You saved me. The process became much faster. It’s strange to copy all the text and paste it in parts, but it worked very well.
Thank you so much.