Is there a way to put slurs on automatically rather than going through score and creating slurs each time this occurs?
Coming from Finale where this was possible. (Have to say I would not go back to Finale now as I love Dorico…workflow much better and creating quicker)!
Do you mean an elision slur? If so, type _ (underscore) in the lyric popover, and Dorico will replace it with an elision slur.
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To me it sounds like @JJmus is looking for standard melisma slurs over the notes being created automatically by scanning the connected lyrics.
Aha, in which case, no, Dorico doesn’t do this for you: you’ll need to add the slurs yourself.
Ah, OK. Yes it was melisma slurs I was wanting.
Thanks for quick replies
I actually have the opposite problem with lyrics and slurs. I seem to remember that if I was adding lyrics to multiple slurred notes, that the syllable would be automatically assumed to extend until the next note that is outside of the slur, along with a line indicating the extension of that syllable. Is this something that broke in version 6? Or am I just remembering something from Finale? In general I am loving v6 and the native help is much better than it was in 5.2
No Dorico doesn’t skip over notes that are slurred. There are phrase slurs as well as melismatic slurs, so it would be hard to distinguish.
I don’t think Finale skipped over notes in a slur while you were entering lyrics, either. (It didn’t even skip over tied notes…)
Thanks, of course that is right. What I really needed was to know that the spacebar is how to extend a lyric.
Yes, and the slur hopping you mentioned was probably referring to ties.
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