

Tip: If you want a quick MIDI audio check of the notes you’re attaching lyrics to, hold down OPTION and SPACEBAR and drag the cursor across the staff. Otherwise, PrintMusic will believe that all the lyrics, even successive lines, are all part of the same “verse,” and unexpected results may occur. To add a new lyric line, be sure to change verses before typing in each new line. Important: When you enter lyrics using this method, pay special attention when entering additional lyric lines, one beneath another. If you encounter a melismatic passage, where one syllable is sustained through several melody notes, press SPACEBAR for each note of the melisma the cursor will skip ahead to the next note. (If you backspace to the previous syllable, PrintMusic highlights the whole syllable so that you can replace it all at once with anything you type.) To change a word you’ve already typed, click in the staff so that the syllable is highlighted, and then type its replacement. If you make a mistake, just backspace over it by pressing DELETE. As you type, PrintMusic automatically scrolls the music so you always know where you are. Each time you type a space or a hyphen, PrintMusic automatically moves the insertion point in preparation for entering the next syllable. The blinking cursor-the insertion point-jumps to a position beneath the first note, in the staff you clicked. Indicate the staff and the note to which you want to begin adding lyrics by clicking on the staff at the position of the first melody note.
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For a full discussion, see To set the baseline (vertical position) for lyrics, below.

The triangles control the baseline of the lyrics (against which the bottom edges of the words line up). Two positioning triangles appears at the left edge of the screen. If you want to specify a verse number, choose Lyrics > Specify Current Lyric.
