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Lyrics Placement

I have Noteworthy 1.75. In the last couple of weeks, the lyrics have suddenly started showing up on top of the notes - not above the notes, but in the same space. How can I fix this?

Re: Lyrics Placement

Reply #1 –
Click the lyrics staff (to make it current).  Open the Lyrics dialog box (click the big blue "L" on the toolbar.  Click the "Configuration" tab and check the "Offset" value.
Hope that helps.

Ray

Re: Lyrics Placement

Reply #2 –
I tried it. It works for 1 line of lyrics, but in this case, I have 5 - and the words now appear on top of the notes in the staff below.

Re: Lyrics Placement

Reply #3 –
You have to diddle with "staff width" and "offset value" until it looks right. You can get at "staff width" two ways, but it's easier to do it all from the Lyrics box. Notice that width changes when you adjust offset, but not the other way around.

Re: Lyrics Placement

Reply #4 –
Perhaps you need to increase the 'vertical size' of the staff below (Select the staff below, F2 (or Staff\Staff Properties), 'Visual' tab, and set 'Vertical Size : Upper' to some larger value.

You may need to quickly scan across the whole piece to see how much space to add. I find that with upward stems and slurs positioned above on the lower staffs I need quite a lot of space to avoid conflicts like this.

Re: Lyrics Placement

Reply #5 –
No, none of this seems to work. I tried starting over on this one tonight. I put in just the melody line - 1 staff only. Then I added 1 verse of lyrics. Looked fine. So I added the second verse. Those words went into the space the first verse had taken, and bumped the first verse up into the notes.

I can use the offset to make it all drop down, but how do I separate the staves so they are far enough apart? This has got to be some glitch in the program.

Re: Lyrics Placement

Reply #6 –
None of the behaviour you describe is what I see!

Start with a blank line - upper and lower staff sizes are 12 each.

Add a lyric line - lower staff size goes to 16.
Add another - goes to 20.

So you shouldn't be having a problem there.

And your observation about offsets doesn't work for me either. Extraordinarily enough setting the offset also resets the lower staff by the same amount in the opposite direction, leaving the lyrics exactly where they were. Weird!