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Lyrics alignment again


From: Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy
Subject: Lyrics alignment again
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 18:39:12 -0500 (EST)

I saw the question posted earlier re lyrics alignment, but I can't quite
tell whether it adresses my problem, so sorry if I'm being repeticious.

I have Lyrics in between two staves in a StaffGroup. This way bar lines go
all across from the top staff to the bottom one.

I'm using \addlyrics.

I am having a problem with left side of multiletter syllables at the
beginnings of measures crossing the bar line:

   |                |
  s|yl   -  la   - b|le
   |                |

I'm guessing lilypond tries to center the syllable on the first note
without much regard for the bar lines.  This little imperfection is
driving me nuts.

I spent a lot of time trying to find a way to insert some space at the
beginning of a measure to shift the first note to the right a little bit
without any luck.

The only way to deal with this so far that I've been able to figure out
is to wrap the offending syllables in:

\property Lyrics . LyricText \override #'extra-offset = #'(4 . 0)
\property Lyrics . LyricText \override #'extra-extent-X = #'(0 . 4)
syl --
\property Lyrics . LyricText \revert #'extra-offset
\property Lyrics . LyricText \revert #'extra-extent-X
la --
\property Lyrics . LyricText \override #'extra-offset = #'(4 . 0)
\property Lyrics . LyricText \override #'extra-extent-X = #'(0 . 4)
ble
\property Lyrics . LyricText \revert #'extra-offset
\property Lyrics . LyricText \revert #'extra-extent-X

This will shift the sillable to the right by 4 points (the number of
points may vary) Obviously this makes the lyrics very ugly...

Am I missing something? Does 1.4.9 have a feature to deal with this and
should I upgrade? Any advice will be appreciated.

G.






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