Hi, apologies. I feel like I’m missing something super obvious.
I’ve inserted underscore characters at the end of each lyric in this example, and I can’t seem to figure out/remember how to summon elisions. 
Thank you in advance.
elisions.dorico (1.3 MB)
Thanks for the quick reply. I’m typesetting something in French, where liasons/elisions are common between words on different notes… I’m mining my old files, I’m sure I’ve got some somewhere…
This is what I’m hoping to produce at the end of “égal”. I got to this result just now by pasting the unicode symbol referred to here using the “Edit line of lyrics” popup, but I had always thought there would be a more elegant solution that I had used before?
My use case: usually choristers know when to use liasons like this, but I work with kids and I really want to spell it out in the their scores.
I have an original Schoen edition of the Cantique, and there are no elisions at all.
So maybe you don’t need them?
I’ve never seen one at the end of a word like you have at the end of “égal”, and I’ve sung in choruses for years.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But who knows.
I guess you could use the elision character from whatever text font you’re using and insert it at the end of “-gal”?
I just pulled up my copy of Cantique to use as an example. Usually when I prepare my scores, putting in liasons is one of the first things I do, but I want to do that ahead of time for my kiddos.
In the example above of Canique, I did exactly as you mentioned; I pasted the unicode symbol.
I actually found another way of achieving more or less the same result, that’s a little bit easier: inserting an underscore followed by a space (shift-option-space on Mac). Someone let me know if there’s an even better way..!
"gal_ "
Another challenge for you for these lyrics will be how to indicate that “Très-Haut” does not have a liaison, but is pronounced “Trè Haut”, if you see what I mean - i.e. without any “z” sound joining the two syllables (rather with a gentle glottal stop). I too have sung this many times and have been told this by native French speakers and experts in the various choirs.
Yep, I remember that one! There’s plenty of pitfalls for non French speakers, like “Les haricots”.
