Re: text formatting inside \addlyrics

[James Bailey]

On 22.04.2010, at 23:04, Gerard McConnell wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kieren MacMillan"  
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> To: "Gerard McConnell" <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 12:16 PM
> Subject: Re: text formatting inside \addlyrics
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> > Hi Gerard,
> >
> > > How do I italicize a section of text inside \addlyrics?
> >
> > \markup \italic { a section of text to be italicised }
> I don't think that will work; that will italicize the section of  
> text, but the words will no longer be treated as lyrics, that is,  
> they won't be aligned under the notes as lyrics would be.

What would lead you to come to this conclusion?