musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Allow lyric hyphens to continue across jump
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Since Jul 16, 2026.
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Description
Your idea
Lyric line extenders work nicely either side of a jump, with the first segment extending properly to the barline when continued after the jump.
This is not currently possible for hyphens, as the hyphen segment is deleted upon exiting input when it doesn't end with a syllable.
We need a way of allowing lyric hyphens to continue across jumps, without allowing unattached hyphens when there is no jump.
Problem to be solved
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/65c0381c-a691-4f38-a5ea-a2679683e492
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