Finale has a Lyrics Window. Much of my work is editing Baroque operas and it’s often possible to find the libretti of these online. I can copy and paste the relevant sections of the libretto into files. It’s then a question of using hyphens to separate the words into syllables, and using non-breaking spaces for elisions. A very useful function is that when entering the text in recitatives, by using Ctrl-click, all the prepared text is entered under the notes at once. It may be necessary to do some fine-tuning, of course. Is it possible to do that in Dorico?
Does this help at all?
Peter, I do this from time to time, having the lyrics in a lightweight text-editor (outside Dorico).
As preparation separating all syllables with hyphens, then copying an entire line and pasting it, syllable by syllable into Dorico’s Lyric Input.
It needs a little exercise, but one can work quite fast.
Pasting with cmd-v repeatedly pastes the syllables consecutively under every note.
If two or more notes share a syllable, one progresses with hyphens until the next syllable.
If a last syllable of a word shares more than one note, one progresses with the space-bar.
It’s basically three different types of actions, and one has to keep an awareness while pasting, trying to avoid errors. It is actually very well described in the article from Dorico Help - as Daniel has linked above.
Many thanks for this - I shall give it a whirl.
Peter
Many thanks. I’m still feeling my way and will attempt to do this. Usually I set the text up in Word and go from there.
Peter
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