Re: how to add punctuation mark (or other things) at the end of lyricextender?

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janek Warchoł" <address@hidden>
To: "lilypond-user" <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 12:48 PM
Subject: how to add punctuation mark (or other things) at the end of 
lyricextender?


> Hi all,
> i have a melisma at the end of a sentence, like here:
>
> \version "2.13.45"
> {
>  \new Voice { c'8 d'4 e'8( c' f'4. g2 c'8 )}
>  \addlyrics { ex -- ten -- der. __ }
> }
>
> i'd like the dot to appear after the extender (like in the bottom of
> the attachment).
> How can this be done? Manuals seem to say nothing about this, as well
> as the mailing list archive.
>
> cheers,
> Janek

Jan,

According to the normal engraving manuals, the punctuation should be 
attached to the lyric, not the extender.  e.g.

Kurt Stone: "punctuation must appear in its normal position, i.e. not at the 
end of the extender"
Gardner Read: "If punctuation marks come after a word, the extender begins 
immediately after the [punctuation]".

Ted Ross also has the illustration with the extender after the full stop.

--
Phil Holmes