The "+" signs were used originally to indicate that the same syllable was to be sung, but at another pitch. Since RS2014 cares ass about singing performance, any "+"'s are useless, that's why EoF filters them out. To increase how long the lyric should stay blue in the game, just adjust the word length as you would with a regular note. Furthermore, the 84 chaacters was just something I picked up, don't know whether it was accurate or not. Anyway, Even the 64 character line seems a bit too long for my taste. I normally cut mine off at 4 words, or 6 if they're small. It's usually about 25-35 characters. Any longer and I find that it distracts from playing. Lastly, I believe most of my Nightwish songs have vocals now. Any new release I submit on this site WILL have vocals. ALso, you can sing along with the songs from her solo project. I've got Until My Last Breath, I Feel Immortal and Ciaran's Well up. With vocals :). So in short: * Don't use any "+" in your lyrics * Use the lyric mark function to define how long each lyric line should be, and to avoid undesired wrapping or early breaks. * Keep the lyric lines short, and make the line breaks (using the Mark function) at sensible places in a sentence. Edit: Shameless plug:
This how lyrics look when you use the points I made above. If you want to see how that's done in EoF, i'd be happy to share the EoF file.