after experimenting for months with adding lyrics to the lead sheet, adding them to the comments window and even adding them by means of other programs, I finally just bought a good music stand and a notebook with plastic page protectors. Now each time I learn a song, I print the lyrics, add the chords and any comments such as "drop D capo 2"

I know, I KNOWWWwwww... stone age. But at least I can make the font size large enough for my old man eyes.

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Is the technology available that will take lines of words ,from a word processor, and add them to a leadsheet as note based lyrics?



Sonars method of adding lyrics is close to what you want. You can cut and paste a whole song into the lyric screen, and it assumes that each space marks a new note. Since there are always passages of music with no lyrics, the song tends to get out of synch (you run out of words before you run out of song)

But you can keep the timing right by adding spaces during the instrumental passages.

One reason I decided to go with hard copies is for flexibility. If I ever perform songs recorded in a different DAW, I can keep the same method of reading the lyrics. Also I can work on my song lyrics from other computers besides my music computer.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ey71h8ep047758h/AAC12jNM0Hz9Q8zsh5iDeqNHa?dl=0