Re: Having an actual hyphen in the lyrics?

[David Wright]

On Tue 14 Sep 2021 at 18:05:17 (-0400), Kira Garvie wrote:
> Okay, I tried that, but it bumps the lyrics all over one. In the original
> page scan, which I am following, the hyphen falls right under the tied d
> 8th note. How do I override the tie to get the hyphen there?

You don't want a hyphen there, you need a lyric extender: "__"
(without my quotes). You put one in the second verse,
precisely underneath.

You probably want to replace the extender in the second verse
with a hyphen: "--" because I presume the word is onerous
(e, not a).

Note that LP's intraword hyphens don't aim to line up with anything
musical, because that isn't the convention.

Cheers,
David.