PreSonus Notion 6 - Notation Software (Boxed) - Manual (Page 203)

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Notion provides built-in lyric features for quick entry and editing of words for singing or narration .
Single Verse
1 . Ensure you are in Edit mode .
2 . To access the lyric tool
, either:
> Press the letter L key, or
> In the Entry Palette , hover over the first pane and click in the pop-up menu .
3 . Position the Music Cursor under the first note you want to add a lyric .
4 . Click your mouse or press Enter .
» Notion displays a temporary text box under the staff at this location .
◙ Empty temporary text box.
5 . Type the word and press space to advance to the next note . In this case we are going to enter the first syllable of a
word as it spans multiple notes (melisma) so we will also enter a hyphen - (dash) before pressing space to advance .
◙ Temporary text box now at second note with hyphen in place
6 . To end, click anywhere outside the temporary text box or press Enter .
7 . To extend a whole word or a final syllable to other notes (extension), immediately type an underline _ (underscore)
as many times as the number of notes involved . The current note is included in the count . Then click anywhere in
the score away from the temporary text box so the underscores can be “drawn” correctly . Then click the next note
that has a new syllable . Since the Lyric tool is still on the Music Cursor, you can immediately proceed with the
remaining lyrics .
8 . To enter an elision slur ‿ (or lyric slur) in the text, copy and paste this character into your lyrics: ‿
(this is Unicode character ‘Undertie’ U+203F) . This is common when singing in e .g . French or Italian, where more
than one word can be run together under a single note .
Multiple Verses
Notion supports up to nine lines of lyrics under notes in the score .
1 . Ensure you are in Edit mode .
2 . To specify a verse, press the letter L then press the verse number (1 to 9) .
3 . Position the Music Cursor where the lyrics start and click your mouse or press Enter .
» To help you align the text with the correct notes, the text box stays relatively near the notes .
4 . If you want, start your typing with the verse number (such as: 2 .) and continue Entering the lyrics as discussed
above . (To avoid jumping to the next note once you’ve typed the verse number, use Shift+Space before typing the
first word) . As you complete each verse, the text moves to its correct horizontal place in the sequence of verses .
5 . If your second verse has slightly different syllables and therefore different rhythms, you can write these into voice 2,
(setting voice 2 as Cue Notes)
Select lyrics
You can select all lyrics by highlighting a staff or selecting a region, then right click and go to Select Special > Select Lyrics .
You can then copy or cut the lyrics and paste them into another staff using Paste or Ctrl/Cmd + V .
Paste lyrics from an external source
Copy and paste from a text editor application, and paste into Lyrics in Notion . Notion will advance the lyrics on a space,
and if you have entered hyphens (-) or underscores (_) in your text, it will space syllables and melisma respectively across
notes . Once you copied the text, go back into Notion, place the cursor on the note you wish the first word to appear, then
go to Edit>Paste Lyrics and choose the verse number
Lyrics