Can anyone think of a way to have short horizontal lines underneath notes for students to write on?
I tried using the underscore symbol but it created an elision slur.
This could use some alignment work but I did it pretty quickly in less than 20 seconds using MusAnalysis on two lyric lines, the syntax !L to create a short line.
I think it would probably be a bit easier than futzing with the line editor… and surely good enough for students 
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Thanks for your suggestion.
To (rather uncharacteristically) ignore the humorous note in @wing’s reply, I would say that one thing I learned over many years of teaching classroom theory and making exercises like this is that the precise placement of the prompting blanks really matters.
Pros reading music are capable of reading past, even if (rightly) grudgingly, some of our lapses, but students struggling with new concepts can get thrown off by anything visually unclear.
All my teaching years aligned with my Finale use, so I’ve never had to face this question, @DanielMuzMurray. I did lots of those kinds of things with centered custom articulations, I recall, which was great because the distance from the staff would be consistent.
Not at my machine to check so I’ll ask: can we achieve a similar result with line designing or a custom playing technique with a line glyph?
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Yesterday another thread prompted me to visit the Dash Wikipedia article, and I learned of several codepoints that were new to me:
We all know the underscore _ and em-dash — (⇧⌥- on Mac) … There are also a 2-em dash ⸺ and a 3-em dash ⸻ way out in the Supplemental Punctuation range, U+2E3A and 2E3B, which would center under notes if entered as lyrics.
[Edit] P.S. Lyrics in Dorico do not take advantage of the mechanism of fallback fonts, so you have to assign a Lyrics font that actually has those codepoints. On Mac the SF Pro system fonts have them. (The codepoints were added in Unicode 6.1.)
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Fantastic — thank you!
What is MusAnalysis? Sorry for the stupid question, but have no idea and need to figure out how to make these lines below the notes:(
MusAnalysis is a separate font available from here:
(You also might find MusGlyphs and MusFrets are useful also, depending on what you do.)