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The alignment of the selected lyrics is changed.

Lyric hyphens and lyric extender lines

Lyric hyphens indicate that individual lyrics are syllables within multi-syllabic words, for example,

“Hal-le-lu-jah”. Lyric extender lines indicate that individual lyrics, either whole words or the last

syllables in multi-syllabic words, extend across multiple notes.

A phrase containing hyphens and an extender line

Dorico SE automatically inputs and positions lyric hyphens when you advance the lyrics popover

by pressing - between syllables, and lyric extender lines when you advance the lyrics popover by

pressing Space multiple times after an entry.

Lyric line numbers

Lyric line numbers are used to organize lyrics when a single musical passage can have different

lyrics sung to it, such as music that contains multiple verses. In

Dorico SE, you can specify the line

number of lyrics as you input them and by changing the line number of existing lyrics.

For example, if you input lyrics in Line 3 but later want to change those lyrics to Line 4 because

you want to input different lyrics as Line 3, you can change your current Line 3 into Line 4, and

then input a new line of lyrics as Line 3. The spacing is automatically adjusted to show lyric lines

in the correct order.

The start of a choral piece with three lyric lines for its three verses

In Dorico SE, you can have multiple lines of lyrics both above and below the same staff. Turning

lyric lines into chorus lyric lines or lyric line translations changes both their placement and

appearance as chorus lyrics generally use an italic font.