Lyrics alignment, stanza numbers, metadata

[Don Blaheta]

I have a bunch of questions that arose while setting a song.  I've put
up the ly and pdf (run through Lilypond 2.6.4) at 
  http://www.blahedo.org/ly/comfort.ly
  http://www.blahedo.org/ly/comfort.pdf

1) Is there any way to make the stanza numbers line up?  Virtually every
time I've done stanza numbers, they've looked like this, sometimes worse
(overprinting the start of the line).

2) I've noticed lyrics misalignments before, but they seem worse
recently; this piece is a good example.  Actually, as I look at it I
think the lyrics syllables are horizontally centred with each other, but
left-aligned with the note head.  That's not how I thought it was
supposed to work (and it doesn't look very good)....

3) The metadata permitted in \header seems ill-suited for a lot of the
stuff I'm typing in (old churchy stuff, mostly).  There is a slot for
"texttranslator", according to the manual, but this is not printed;
there is nothing for the name of the tune (often distinct from the name
of the text), which is often printed in small caps.  In other pieces,
there's often notation on scriptural source (which is further distinct
from the lyricist ie "poet") or chant mode or multiple lyricists for
different verses.  Which is not to say that lilypond should natively
support all of this, but it would be nice to have an "otherLyricMetadata"
and "otherMusicMetadata" or two.

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