Elision in lyrics

[Laura Conrad]

There's a typesetting convention for lyrics that when there are what
look like two syllables on a note but it's really only one because one
is elided, you join the syllables with a sort of a tie underneath
them.  You can see how Encore does this on the bottom score of the
first page of this file.

<http://www.cpdl.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=getit&lid=2595>
 

Is there a way to make Lilypond do this?  

If so, can it be documented and indexed under "elision", or "Lyrics, elision"?

One of my group members believes strongly that this is the *right
thing to do*, so I might do it if it were easy, but they never did
stuff like that in the 16th century, so I might just not bother
anyway.
       
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