Re: Need help with this simple lyric

[Maximilian Albert]

Dominic Neumann schrieb:

> For italicizing the word "Officiant" I tried to put this before the
> \set ... command:
> 
> \override VocalName #'font-shape = #'italic
> 
> But it didn´t work. If you say LyricText instead of VocalName it
> works, but that´s not what you wanted.

Use

  \override InstrumentName #'font-shape = #'italic

(I would guess that the VocalName layout object was removed some time in
the past to unify the syntax; also see

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond-internals/Instrument_005fname_005fengraver#Instrument_005fname_005fengraver

).

Hope this helps.
Max