First of all, does the word oddidity exist?
I have an Aria (that started as an xml import).
I am clearing up the lyrics. There were a couple of non automatic hyphens, which I managed to delete all of them.
At some points, the lyric hyphens will not extend properly:
I tried to re-enter the lyrics at that point without success.
After an intuition of mine I found the culprits: these two ties seem to have inherited something under the hood (there are no properties set for them):
Thank you for pointing it out. I guess it’s some XML-import-hiccup. Is there any evidence in the XML file, for example that the ties have a different text-representation?
I know the aria, it’s from BWV 3 and has a lot of 20th century harmonies.
(Nitpicking: In one of the “Empfind’” occurrences a “p” is missing)
It’s well worth copying the contents of the Edit Lyrics box to a text editor, where you can display “invisible” characters. That might show you whether there are non-breaking spaces or other oddities.
I often find XML imports contain hyphens “as part of the syllable” somehow.
Thanks Ben, yes that’s the first thing I checked, but did not get any further. Even after cleaning up the text and repasting it into the lyric window, it was 162 syllables vs. target of 348…
So I gave up on that idea and deleted extra hyphens in the project and re-entered (went along) the lyrics.
There must be something in the music of the xml import, that gives these odd results.
I don’t think we can put it that way.
These are the results of a counterpoint still linked to the sixteenth century rules (Bach still thinks that way), and not a harmonic approach in se.