Assigning lyrics to notes
How are the lyrics assigned to notes?
It is not enough that the lyrics are divided into lines. We must also define how the line lyrics are distributed over line notes. If we e.g. have 7 notes, the line of lyrics needs to be divided into 7 chunks. The lyrics are tightly coupled with the notes.
If you e.g. split some note into two notes, it means that the lyrics must change as the new note must have some lyrics assigned.
Vice versa, if you split one chunk of lyrics into 2 chunks the lyrics assigned to all subsequent notes must change. After all one note can have only one chunk of lyrics.
Lyrics chunks separators
The boundaries between chunks of lyrics (each chunk belongs to one note) are designated by separators.
There are 2 separators available:
hyphen symbol - separates chunks that should belong to a single word
space - separates chunks that should belong to different words.
Let's take a look at the first line of the lyrics: "Can we start o-~-~-ver"
We have 3 spaces and 3 hyphens which means that there are 7 chunks of lyrics - each one assigned to one note. We have 3 spaces which means that there are 3 separate words and the last word is build from 4 chunks so 4 notes.
This is just for your understanding. You don't have too analyze it that hard as you can always see each note's text written on it in the editor. Also you can see the whole line displayed in the same way Ultrastar would display it under the main editor so it's easy to see any mistakes.
Changing the separator
To switch a separator from hyphen to space or vice versa you just need to place the cursor right before the separator you want to change and insert the separator you want.
If you place cursor like in the picture and press spacebar, the separator will change to space.
And you will see that the line lyrics under the editor have changed accordingly:
You could have of course first removed the old separator and later added the new one, but this is not necessary as the separator can be changed in place.
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