Re: Lyric word spanning two notes

[Mats Bengtsson]

Of course you can fool LilyPond into beleiving that two words should
be treated like a single syllable. Either enclose them within double quotes:
"two words"
or use the fact the a single underline is printed like a space:
two_words

  /Mats

Stephen Torri wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 23:43 -0500, Gordon Gilbert wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi Stephen!
> >
> > I compiled your piece and the only workaround I can see for what you want 
> > is to type "host-of" to get those two words on the same note -- lily 
> > thinks a hyphen is simply part of a word (as opposed to <spc> dbl-hyphen 
> > <spc> or *underscore*  Does this help?
> >    
>
> It works but its not ideal. If indeed lilypond is trying to engrave
> music in the right way then I should not need a hyphen to make it put
> two words attached to a half note.
>
> Does anyone have an idea as to why I cannot assign two words of lyrics
> to a half note?
>
> Stephen
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