Re: Lyrics Vertical Alignment

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

On 2012-10-30 00:46, Tiresia GIUNO wrote:
> is there any reason why Lyrics on the two staves in the attached
> example is not correctly vertical aligned?

Yes, there is a reason. See e.g. Elaine Gould: Behind Bars -- The 
Definitive Guide to Music Notation (published by Faber Music, 2011), 
p.439, section "Syllable underlay":

=================

SINGLE NOTE PER SYLLABLE
Centre each syllable directly under its note. [...]

MORE THAN ONE NOTE PER SYLLABLE (INCLUDING TIED NOTES)
The syllable should be ranged left under the first notehead. This draws 
the eye to the right - an important consideration, since the singer 
always needs to be looking forward.

Some editions place all syllables consistently to the left of the note, 
but, in general, this not helpful. From time to time there may be an 
aesthetic case for doing so, in order to align vertically either the 
same text below different staves or different texts below the same voice 
part.

=================


Since lilypond cannot determine automatically that your case might be 
that very exception mentioned in the last sentence, it simply uses the 
default: centering the syllable to the single note in the first staff 
and left-aligning with the note in the second staff, since there the 
syllable is assigned to more than one note.

Cheers,
Reinhold
--
------------------------------------------------------------------
Reinhold Kainhofer, address@hidden, http://www.kainhofer.com
 * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
 * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886
 * Edition Kainhofer, Music Publisher, http://www.edition-kainhofer.com