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General Discussion / Leading adjustment in lyrics?
In lyrics, I find the default leading (height of font - or, in visual terms, the space between lines of fonts) is too condensed, making it difficult to follow the text while singing. I have tested the standard fonts in Windows: this is true with all of them.

Is anyone aware of a way to increase the space between lines of lyrics?
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General Discussion / Alter placement of slurs?
This has probably been discussed, but I haven't been able to locate a solution:

I'm producing music for church bulletins, where space is tight. Often the slurs on alto or tenor lines overprint lyrics. Increasing staff boundaries takes too much space on the page, and reducing stem lengths still leaves the slurs colliding with words. Can slurs be set to print from notehead to notehead, rather than from end-of-stem to end-of-stem?
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General Discussion / Left-align first syllable only
In printing hymns for congregational singing, I prefer to see:
  • syllables aligned using standard rules (i.e., centered on notes)
  • verse number attached to the first syllable
  • verse numbers left-aligned.

I haven't found this addressed in the forums, so am posting here. Has anyone tried to do this?

(The one solution that occurred to me was to insert an invisible, muted note on which to align the verse numbers -- but that creates too much space at the start of the lyric line.)