Re: Lyrics to hymn - new user

[Janek Warchoł]

2013/10/18 Janek Warchoł <address@hidden>:
> 2013/10/18 Carl Peterson <address@hidden>:
>> Someone on the list (I can't remember who, precisely) wrote a macro that
>> allows one to left-align all the lyric syllables at an arbitrary musical
>> point. It looks at all the syllables at that point, figures out the longest
>> one (as typeset), centers it, and left aligns all the other syllables
>> relative to the longest one.
>
> It was written by David Nalesnik, and can be found here:
> https://github.com/openlilylib/snippets/blob/master/custom-engravers/aligning-first-lyric-syllables.ily

Update: there was some renaming in the repository, and the snippet is now here:
https://github.com/openlilylib/snippets/tree/master/notation-snippets/aligning-first-lyric-syllables