Rogue dashes
I'm having trouble with rogue dashes showing up in the lyrics.
I'm transcribing a piece with melismas. I can get dashes to show that the syllable carries over subsequent notes, but when I press 'space' to stop adding dashes and advance to the next note it adds dashes to all the rests in between.
I try to delete the rogue dashes but they cannot be selected.
Anyone have a fix for this?
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Hello,
Thank you for reaching out.
What you’re seeing is usually caused by Noteflight automatically extending lyric hyphens/melismas across rests when spacing forward in lyric entry mode.
Instead of pressing the space bar repeatedly, try advancing note-by-note more carefully when entering melismas. You can also try exiting lyric entry mode after completing the melisma, then re-entering it at the next syllable location.
Unfortunately, those extra extender dashes are sometimes difficult to select directly because they are attached to the lyric flow rather than treated as separate objects.
A workaround that often helps is deleting the lyric syllable just before the rogue dashes and re-entering that section more slowly. In some cases, switching briefly out of lyrics mode and back in can also prevent the extra dashes from appearing.
Best
Ulugbek
Noteflight Support Team
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