User Guide
Chapter 15: Reference
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Enter Lyrics at current bar
- Opens the Lyric entry box at the current location of the timeline or highlight cell.
Big Lyrics Window
- Opens the Big Lyrics window for viewing lyrics and, optionally, chord symbols.
Lyric Document Window
- Displays a full screen of formatted lyrics. Easily copy and paste lyrics to and from your favorite word
processor. The lyrics will then display in the Big Lyrics window.
Copy Lyrics to Clipboard
- This function allows you to copy a song's lyrics (and/or the chords) to the Standard Windows Clipboard. By
pasting this data into a word processor, you can print out the lyrics in the font of your choice. The dialog has
options to allow copying of note-based and/or line-based lyrics. With either option you can choose to include
the chord symbols, have double or single line spacing, and make margin settings.
Copy 1
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chorus Lyrics to whole song
- Copies the note-based lyrics for the first chorus to the rest of the song.
Erase all Lyrics
- Erases note-based and line-based Lyrics.
Erase Note Lyrics only
- Erases only the note-based lyrics.
Kill Lyrics Choruses
- Select from a list box to kill lyrics in the selected chorus.
Move Lyric ahead to time line
Move Lyric back to time line
- If you have a note-based lyric that you want to time shift ahead or back, you can click on the time line at the
destination that you want, and then choose this item. You can also shift lyric times using the Lyric Event list.
Timeshift Lyrics (ticks)
Insert Beat(s) in Lyrics
Delete Beat(s) from Lyrics
- These are functions that apply to the entire lyric track. They are useful when you're inserting bars or beats into
the song and need to move the lyrics around to keep them in sync.
Edit Lyrics as Event List
Opens the Edit Lyrics dialog with Edit, Insert, Append, and Delete functions.
Line-based Lyrics opens a special submenu for line based lyrics. These are lyrics that are entered line by line as
text. They are not directly linked to the corresponding melody notes. To enter line-based lyrics in the Notation
window, either press Ctrl+L or open up the Notation window.
Copy Line Lyrics to Note Lyrics converts line-based lyrics to note based lyrics. It is imprecise, because the line-
based lyrics don't correspond to individual notes. But you can edit the positions of the note-based lyrics using the
event list or the Move Lyric back/ahead to time line functions discussed above.
Move Line lyrics to Note Lyrics works like the Copy Line Lyrics to Note Lyrics function, except it erases the Line-
based lyrics.