Lyrics hanging over barline and colliding with it's own hyphen

This is a common problem I see. Lyrics on a note at the end of a system, tied to the next bar, hang beyond the page margin. Multi-syllabic lyrics in that situation are colliding with their own hyphen. I’ve attached an example. I’m sure I can just go into engrave mode and fix each one, but I shouldn’t have to go through every system in my music to look for these kind of layout errors.

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Yes, this is indeed a problem that you will see in full systems. Dorico doesn’t currently “know” that it shouldn’t allow lyrics to go beyond the end of the system, and as a consequence it doesn’t prevent lyrics and their following hyphens from colliding. This is certainly something that we need to improve in future.