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Re: left aligning lyrics?


From: Richard Shann
Subject: Re: left aligning lyrics?
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 19:13:50 +0000

On Sun, 2016-02-28 at 17:18 +0000, Phil Holmes wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Richard Shann" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2016 4:58 PM
> Subject: left aligning lyrics?
> 
> 
> > Can lyrics be left-aligned to the note they belong to, instead of
> > centred? I think the presence of this section
> >
> >
> > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/opera-and-stage-musicals#dialogue-over-music
> >
> > might mean the answer is no (in the sense that you can't simply add an
> > override to what you would otherwise have)
> >
> > Richard
> 
> {
> \time 3/4
> \relative { c'2 e4 g2. }
> \addlyrics { \override LyricText.self-alignment-X = #LEFT play the game }
> }

perfect! Now I see it is there staring me in the face in the NR 

http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/techniques-specific-to-lyrics#placing-syllables-horizontally

under selected snippets ...

Thanks

Richard





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