Lyrics -- Left align a word / wordblock

[Trent J]

Hello...

Firstly thanks to those who helped me with my previous question.

My new question is this....

Monteverdi (and several other baroque composers and modern ones) can 
sometimes put a whole string of text to be sung on the one note...

eg.

g\longa
"Donec ponam inimicos"

what I end up with is the word being centred on the note and it intrudes 
quite a lot into the previous bar causing that bar to become overly long as 
well....

eg..

           |   g               |
"Donec ponam inimicos"

Is there a way that I can align these lyrics so that words are actually left 
aligned...

 | g                                |
 | "Donec ponam inimicos" |  etc.....

so that the words actually up the space of the bar that it is in.

BTW .. I'm using Lilypond version 2.2.5 under XP Professional...

Thanks again... any help appreciated...

Trent

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