Re: Adjustments to lyrics alignment

[Alexander Kobel]

On 01/29/2014 03:38 PM, Gonçalo Nogueira wrote:
> Is there a way I can define a music function so that I can write
>
> \alignLyrics #0.7 syllable
>
> The attachment shows what I have tried but is not compiling.

Try the following:

alignLyrics =
#(define-music-function
      (parser location alignment text)
      (number? ly:music?)
    #{
      \once \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = $alignment $text
    #})

Note that you can access a parameter as $name between #{ .. #}.  Also 
note that you should interpret text as ly:music; if it's markup, I can 
see no obvious way to attach the hyphen to it without going through 
hoops again.


Best,
Alexander