Re: Lyric misalignment during slurs

[Trevor Daniels]

Evan Ross wrote Sunday, February 06, 2011 4:27 PM


> I have an idea of what I want to see on the page, found one 
> instance of that
> in this piece, and would like that to be the way my piece is set. 
> And I find
> it difficult to believe given all the individual alterations one 
> can do in
> lilypond that this is impossible to change.
>
> Is there no way whatsoever to force a center alignment to the 
> first note of
> a multi-note syllable?

Lyrics to melismata are left-aligned and by default slurs
are taken to indicate melismata.  This is the normal
typesetting practice.  But you can turn this behaviour
off.  See melismaBusyProperties at the end of "Multiple
notes to one syllable" in Section 2.1.1 of the Notation
Reference for 2.13.  Here's the link:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/common-notation-for-vocal-music#multiple-notes-to-one-syllable

You'll have to space the lyrics manually through the slur
with single underscores, though.

Trevor