Unable to change lyric alignment

[hayden-kwong]

Issue type

Engraving bug (incorrect score rendering)

Description with steps to reproduce

Unable to change lyric alignment (left, centre, right, etc.). In the image below, centre alignment is selected, but the lyrics beneath 'spoken' are not centre-aligned, suggesting that the selected alignment is not being applied.

Supporting files, videos and screenshots

In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?

4.7.2

Regression

Yes, this used to work in a previous version of MuseScore 4.x

Operating system

macOS Tahoe

Additional context

No response

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[MarcSabatella]

As far as I can tell, this is working correctly. Two things you may be misunderstanding here:

1. it's a melisma (two notes sung for a single syllables), so it's correct that it should be left aligned by default
2. to override this, use the new buttons to the right of the one you are looking at