Re: aligning melisma and non-melisma lyrics across staves in the same system

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Harm,

> Yes, parts of it works already. Look at the attached image.
> In first bar the lyrics are aligned correctly I'd say.

Agreed.

> Though not in 3rd bar. "three" is offsetted as well, it shouldn’t.

Agreed.

> The problem is how to test equality?
> For strings it's trivial

Is that already implemented?

> but LyricText also allows for markup.

Is there a markup->string function?

> Likely I'll go for 'self-alignment-X only …

That sounds like the right approach.

Thanks,
Kieren.
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