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The same voice reopened line after line

Suggestion performer.redundant-markup Automatic fix

The same performer style ends and immediately starts again on the next line. Keep one wrapper around the continuous passage to minimize formatting markers.

Convention: Order voices by prominence or arrival.

Example

Flagged by this rule
[Verse: A & <i>B</i>]
<i>First</i>
<i>Second</i>

In the workbench this reads: Adjacent performer formatting can be merged.

Accepted by this rule
[Verse: A & <i>B</i>]
<i>First
Second</i>

The fix

In the workbench this finding carries one control, labelled Merge adjacent formatting. The fix is classified as safe, so pressing it applies the edit directly — one press, one undo step.

The convention and its limits

This check detects the pattern shown above. An accepted example passes this check; it is not a review of the whole transcription.

Source

The source cited by this check:

Use song part headers (opens in a new tab) verified Section headers, performer legends, and four differentiation styles
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