Lyrics
Allegro offers unlimited lyric verses and the following time-saving enhancements.

Automatic Lyric Placement
Lyrics space themselves and the notes they’re attached to automatically.

Automatic Word Extensions
Word extensions actually flow into the score automatically and also wrap to the next staff system. If the music expands or contracts, the extensions stretch or shrink to fit.

Smart Hyphens
Lyric hyphens wrap to the next staff system automatically.

Auto-Slur Melismas
Allegro analyzes your lyrics, and automatically places slurs anytime a syllable lasts for more than one note. Allegro even adds dashed slurs for secondary verses.

Tablature and Fretboards
Choose your instrument from the Setup Wizard and enter your music. There is little left to do.

Allegro can handle notation for an amazing array of fretted instruments.
Enter notes directly into TAB staves using a mouse, computer keyboard, or MIDI device. Or copy from a companion Standard Notation Staff to a TAB staff and vice-versa. Specify the lowest fret to use as you paste.

Once the music is in the tab staff, it is incredibly easy and intuitive to edit. For example, to change a fret number from '2' to '3', just select the note and type '3'.

Up and Down arrow keys move a selected number to other strings. Numbers appear in orange when out of fret range.

Allegro's handling of stems in tablature is unequaled in ease and power. Various stem styles are easily applied. Use the "Tab Styles" library that comes with Allegro or create your own.

• Bends and shapes automatically convert when you paste between Standard and TAB staves.
• Notating hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, and releases is a breeze.
• User-defined defaults for guitar bends are standard.
• Custom Smart Shapes now contain an expanded list of guitar-specific lines.
• Bends can effortlessly do stair steps and double bends.

Repeats
Repeats just got easier – with smarter design, less editing, and automatic playback. Select the measures that will appear in the first ending. Select "Create first and second ending." You're done.

Allegro automatically does the rest of the work for you:

• All numbers and brackets are entered and lined up.
• Repeat numbers are automatically followed by periods.
• Backward Repeat Bars or Repeat Endings can be defined to find their targets automatically.

You can specify whether repeat text and brackets appear on all staves or just the top staff.

Create Codas – New in Allegro 2007
Automatically creates space, text, and symbols as well as controls playback.

Tuplets
Default positioning looks great, even when the tuplet begins with rests, and tuplets automatically reposition when notes are raised or lowered on the staff.

Tuplet brackets avoid rests and staff lines. Brackets follow the angle of the stems when on stem side and follow the angle of notes when on the note side.

It’s automatic!