Re: Adjustments to lyrics alignment

[David Kastrup]

Gonçalo Nogueira <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi list,
>
> I was wondering if there is anyway to manually adjust the alignment of
> *single*
> syllables to their notes. Consider the following fragment:
>
> \relative c'' {
>   \autoBeamOff
>   c8. a16 f4
> } \addlyrics {
>   le -- bens -- satt
> }

> Look at that ugly spacing between the A and the F. Is there a way to
> allow the syllable "bens" to align more to the left and the "satt"
> more to the right so that the spacing between a sixteenth note and a
> quarter note can be more natural?

You can try the following:

\relative c'' {
  \autoBeamOff
  c8. a16 f4
} \addlyrics {
  \tweak self-alignment-X #RIGHT \markup le --
  \tweak self-alignment-X #CENTER \markup bens --
  \tweak self-alignment-X #LEFT \markup satt
}

Note that #LEFT is the same as #-1 and #RIGHT the same as #1 and you can
also use any value in between to get more subtle results.  Or even
beyond the range of -1..1 in order to get less subtle results.

I apologize for the necessity of using \markup in connection with \tweak
here.  We haven't yet found an amicable compromise avoiding this
nuisance.

-- 
David Kastrup