Space and hyphen

How to insert space or hyphen (not as a separator)?

Space and hyphen are reserved characters in the lyrics editor. But what if you want your lyrics to actually contain one of these symbols?

If you just insert it, it will be treated as a separator which is not what we want.

Placeholders come to the rescue.

Inserting space into the lyrics

To insert space as a part of a single lyrics chunk, you actually need to insert space's placeholder. It will be later turned into a normal space. To do that instead of pressing space, press ctrl + space.

You can also go to the menu Lyrics -> Insert -> Space.

This is what it looks like if you insert the space placeholder between sta and rt in the lyrics editor.

The note text and line lyrics now look like this:

We successfully inserted space as a part of single note's lyrics chunk.

Inserting hyphen into the lyrics

The process of inserting hyphen is very similar. Instead of just pressing hyphen key, press ctrl + - or go to the menu Lyrics -> Insert -> Minus.

This is what hyphen placeholder looks like:

The note text and line lyrics now look like this:

and contain a normal hyphen symbol in a single note's lyrics chunk.