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Tonic sol-fa is how a great many choirs read music. Writing it down properly is the hard part. Notation software does not handle it, and typing it into a word processor gives you something that will never lay out as a score.
Notation editor
Visit solfaforge.comYou write the sol-fa as text. That is the whole input method, and it means you can draft a part on a phone, on a library computer, or in whatever text editor you already use, then bring it in. Existing drafts import from .txt and .docx files.
The score lays out live beside what you are typing, paginated at A4, so you see the page a singer will hold rather than a preview you have to imagine.
The notation is rhythm aware, so durations, barlines, repeats and upbeat measures behave as they should rather than as text spacing. It handles lyrics, slurs and volta brackets, and it takes the tune details that belong at the head of a score: key, time signature, tempo and credits.
Scores are four-part SATB. Layout and typography are adjustable, and finished pieces can be gathered into songbooks with a cover and a contents page generated for you.
There is a free Chorister plan, and it is genuinely usable rather than a trial, but it is bounded: two saved scores and two PDF exports a month, with a watermark on the output. Paid plans start at five dollars per two months and lift both the limits and the watermark.
Worth knowing before you plan a whole season around it. For a director engraving one anthem at a time the free tier is fine, and for anyone preparing a songbook it is not.
Sol-fa Forge lives at solfaforge.com.