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Title: lyrics
Post by: jack on 1998-11-10 05:00 AM
Can I print out the lyrics of a song without printing out the music. It seems like that should be possible, but I haven't found a way to do it yet.
Thanks
Title: Re: lyrics
Post by: Bruno Hecquard on 1998-11-10 05:00 AM
You may simply copy the lyrics from inside the lyric window and then paste into your favorite word processor.
It's a little bit lengthy as you have to do it for each staff and for each lyric line.
If you've entered the NWC piece yourself, you should better work the other way: first type your text inside winword or wordperfect ( or ...), copy it and then paste it into the lyric window.
Title: Re: lyrics
Post by: Andrew Purdam on 1998-11-12 05:00 AM
Or use the wishlist page at
http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/composer/wishlist.htm
to ask for it. It would be neat, though I have had no use for such a facility.

A
Title: Re: lyrics
Post by: marsu on 1998-11-12 05:00 AM
When copy/paste-ing your lyrics text into a word processor, you may want to replace the '-' between syllables by a "conditional hyphen" which will print only if needed. This will give "normal" text.
With ยต$word, do a global replacement from
-
with
^-
and it's done.
Example : the lyrics (in NWC) "Safe from all troub-le and dang-er and harm." would become "Safe from all trouble and danger and harm." in a second.

Note that I'm working on a utility that would do the hyphenation automatically (in French ; for English, I'd need to know what criteria define a syllable (seems much harder to me than french). Unless Eric tells us he will add one :-)

Hope this helps