Re: Proper use of Devnull

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Francisco Vila <address@hidden>:

> 2007/9/29, Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> > According to some bug reports (specifically about shifted lyrics with
> > devnull), devnull is not the proper solution to use.
>
>
> Oh. I've seen it (your last comment is only two days old). I see this is
> not  a "Medium priority Defect" anymore but a "Low priority Enhancement". A
> pity, IMO.
>
> Anyway, I still have two questions. From the great examples around I still
> cannot see how to do alternate Lyrics when the melody is the same but
> melismata are different fot each one.

I hope you have read section "Lyrics to multiple notes of a melisma"
which (in spite of its name) also deals with the situation you are
asking about.

> My second question is, how to change the default left alignment for
> melismata texts? Imagine the situation I mentioned where alternate lyrics
> with different melismata want to be equally centered on their noteheads. I'd
> like to center all of them regardless of this. In fact I'dl like to center
> all texts, all the time. Is it possible?

In some recent development version, 2.11.x, a new context property has
been added lyricMelismaAlignment, which seems to answer this question.
Try \set lyricMelismaAlignment = #CENTER
at the top of your lyrics (I haven't tried it myself).

   /Mats