Lyrics

[Tim Slattery]

Last weekend I was entering a song into Lilypond. It's four parts,
SATB, and has two verses. The verses scan very slightly differently.
There is a measure in the music where there are two slurred halfnotes.
In one verse, one syllable is stretched over both half-notes. The
other verse has an extra syllable, so there's a separate syllable for
each halfnote.

Lilypond's ability to match lyrics with music is absolutely fantastic,
but it apparently doesn't handle this scenario. I wound up having one
verse matched automatically, and assigning a duration to *every*
syllable in the other verse. I'm wondering whether I missed something
that would have let me say "do the automatic match, but in this
measure do it this way".

-- 
Tim Slattery
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