I've been setting some music where one verse ends with some music
and lyrics, and the others don't. All 4 verses use underscore
extenders to provide a line to the end of the sounding note. This
works fine on the first verse, since there are lyrics after the
underscores, but it doesn't work as I want on the other verses.
I've made a shorter version of the problem to illustrate it - .ly
snippets are available, but I think just the PDF and lyrics show it
well enough.
In UnderscoreTest.pdf I've put an extra syllable after the
extender, and this now ends where it should. The lyrics for the
second verse are:
{ La la la __ La la la __ La }
In UnderscoreTestShortError.pdf there's no lyric syllable after the
extender, and the extender now reaches the following note, which I
believe it shouldn't do. The lyrics are:
{ La la la __ La la la __ }