Scince the underscore is used to put more than one even under one note, is there any way left for me to put a line after a word when there is a tied note such as.___________
Use the underscore (or dash) as TEXT rather than lyrics. Be sure to look at the result in Print Preview.
Text and lyrics can be intermingled using the same font, or different fonts.
The underscore character itself can't be used, but there are a couple other available characters that might be useful:
ellipsis - ALT 0133
horiz. line - ALT 0151
There's also a another horizontal line character (shorter than the horiz. line ALT 0151) at ALT 0150.
Check out your options using charmap.exe.
Fred's long and short horizontal lines are known as "em dash" and "en dash." His suggestions is better than my original method of using text.
But Fred's suggestions give you lines in the middle of the line. I want something at the bottom. (___ not ---) The elipses are somewhat helpful.
A longer way:
Make a layered staff. Decrease its lyric offset (make the lyrics line outer) so that its top is aligned to the original ones down. Use ¯ (Alt + 0175) where necessary.
Just an idea... :~|
I thought of making a layered staff, but because I have only one staff, I would then have a vertical line at the start of every system which should not be there.
Hmmm... If only we could control the beginning of the staff as we can do with the end...