Lyrics tool 
This tool lets you create, edit, and move lyrics in your score. You can create many different sets of lyrics (which you might use, for example, in a hymn with several verses); you can move the (the imaginary line upon which the bottoms of the words align) up or down independently for each set of lyrics. When you click this tool, the Lyrics menu appears; it contains all the commands you need to create lyrics in your score. See Lyrics for more information.
Special mouse clicks
- Choose Type Into Score from the Lyrics menu, and then click a staff to tell PrintMusic the staff to which you want lyrics attached.
- In Type Into Score mode, drag the positioning triangles at the left edge of the screen to specify the vertical position of the baseline for the lyric set you're inserting.
- In Type Into Score mode, click within the staff lines at the position of the first note to indicate which note you want to attach a syllable to. Then type the lyrics normally.
- In Type Into Score mode, click within the staff lines at the position of a note to select (highlight) the syllable attached to it. Anything you now type replaces the highlighted syllable.
- In Edit Word Extensions mode, click near the sustained syllable to display a handle at the end of the syllable. (If the note is in Voice 2, SHIFT-click.) Drag this handle to the right to draw a word extension underline (indicating that the syllable is sustained through more than one note). Click this handle and press DELETE to remove the word extension.
See also:
Lyrics menu
Main tool palette
Lyrics tool
